NMBI is putting in place a new Customer Charter. It will outline the nature and quality of service that you as a registered nurse or midwife can expect from your nursing and midwifery regulator.

Protecting the public and the integrity of the professions of nursing and midwifery is NMBI’s core mission. We are looking for ways to improve, and promote the highest standards of education, training, and professional conduct for nurses and midwives.

We would like to invite you to take part in an anonymous survey specifically for registered nurses and midwives. It should take approximately five minutes to complete. Your opinion is important to us and we would greatly appreciate your participation.

Please circulate to your colleagues and networks and encourage them to participate also.

To access the survey, please click here.

NMBI is commemorating 100 years of nursing regulation in Ireland in 2019 by holding a national conference bringing the nursing and regulation community together.

The full programme has just been announced and you can view all the details on the NMBI webpage.

Due to high demand the number of places has been increased. To register please see our Eventbrite page.

The conference will take place on Thursday 24 October 2019 in the Clayton Hotel, Liffey Valley.

ARF notification letters will begin to issue in November 2019. Please note the ARF deadline is 31 December 2019.

Making it easier to pay with ‘My Account’

We strongly encourage all nurses and midwives to set up an online account through My Account.

Most nurses and midwives now use My Account to pay the ARF.

Using My Account will make the transition to a new digital system in 2020 easier for you.

Please note that payment of the ARF by direct debit is no longer accepted.

The New Practice Standards and Guidelines for Nurses and Midwives with Prescriptive Authority (4th Edition) incorporating the removal of Collaborative Practice Agreement (CPA) will be published on 7 October 2019.

The Board of the NMBI approved the removal of the Collaborative Practice Agreement (CPA) on 17 April 2018 as a requirement for nurses and midwives registration and authority to prescribe. The clinical governance for the prescribing of medicinal products is now determined by the local health service provider’s medicinal product prescribing policy, procedures, protocols or guidelines (PPPGs).

The National Maternity Experience Survey is a new nationwide survey asking women who have recently given birth about their experiences of Ireland’s maternity services — from antenatal care, through labour and birth, to postnatal care.

Women who give birth in October (and or November in smaller maternity units) will be invited to participate in the survey. All eligible new mothers will be contacted by post in February or March 2020 and will receive a link to the online survey.

NMBI has approved a revised policy for registration as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) and Advanced Midwife Practitioner (AMP).

There are now two paths to register as an ANP/AMP, and these have been operational since 1 September 2019.

The 2020 edition of the NMBI’s careers information booklet ‘Nursing/Midwifery – A career for you’ has just been published.

The booklet includes a comprehensive overview of the entry requirements, the application process, and the theoretical and clinical components of the different types of programmes.  There are no changes to the application processes for entry to pre-registration nursing/midwifery degree programmes for standard or mature applicants in 2020.