Our President, Dr Louise Kavanagh McBride recently shared her insights on the Women in Leadership podcast with Angie Mezzetti.

The podcast highlights the role of women who have made it to leadership levels and allows them to share their wisdom and insights. 

In the podcast, Louise spoke about the importance of well-being and self-care, as well as the challenges facing nurses and midwives.

She believes that Ireland is an attractive place for nurses and midwives and highlighted the importance of investing in the professions in terms of funding continuing professional development and career pathways. 

Louise also spoke about the key role the digitisation of our Register has played in future planning.

“We have a state-of-the-art live Register. So, we have a live picture of how the State of the Register actually sits. We’re the envy in Ireland in terms of other regulators, so that’s been quite transformational, because not only does it give us a live status of those who are patient-facing, non patient-facing, non-practising but also how many are coming from different countries overseas and gives us a tool to work-force plan.”

You can listen to the podcast in full here.