Pictured (L to R): Dr Ray Healy, Director of Registration, NMBI; Karina O Sullivan, NMPDU; Anne Marie Carroll, Laura Lynn; Marie Kilduff, OMNSD and Helen Corrigan, Department of Health.

Our Director of Registration, Dr Ray Healy, was invited to speak at LauraLynn’s Nursing Leadership Event last month.

LauraLynn is a charity which provides services and supports to children with palliative care needs.

The event was held to provide LauraLynn’s Nursing Leadership and Management Team with a better understanding of the political landscape of nursing in Ireland and to identify the opportunities available for professional development.

Ray spoke about the purpose of professional regulation in Ireland and how we effectively regulate as an organisation through our Registration, Education, Standards and Guidance and Fitness to Practise functions. Ray also presented data on the number of nurses and midwives on our Register with a particular focus on the Children’s Division.

Other speakers at the event included Anne-Marie Carroll, Director of Nursing; the Department of Health’s Chief Nursing Office’s Project Officer Helen Corrigan; the Director of the National Clinical Leadership Centre for Nursing and Midwifery, Marie Kilduff; and Nursing and Midwifery Planning and Development Unit Project Officer Karina O’Sullivan.