NMBI has launched the first edition of standards and requirements for Intellectual Disability Nurse Post Registration Education Programmes.

These new standards and requirements provide guidance for higher education institutions and associated healthcare providers for the preparation of curricula and delivery of Intellectual Disability Nurse post-registration education programmes.

Developed at the request of the Department of Health, the standards and requirements are in line with the indicative content and learning outcomes of the NMBI Nurse Registration Programmes Standards and Requirements (2016). Their development involved significant consultation and discussion with registrants, relevant heads of nursing and curriculum leads, other key stakeholders and public representative groups over an extended period.

As with other post-registration courses, students undertaking the one-year Intellectual Disability Nurse Post Registration Education Programme must be nurses whose name is recorded on at least one of either the General, Children’s or Psychiatric division of the NMBI Register.

You may access the standards and requirements here.