Nurse education

We provide ongoing training and development opportunities for all of our nurses. So we can ensure we’re providing the highest quality care to our patients.

Introduction

Nursing education at CHI falls within five categories:

In-service clinical education provided within the clinical area.
Programmes for registered nurses developed, coordinated and delivered by the Centre of Children’s Nurse Education (CCNE).
Registration programmes delivered in partnership with our affiliated universities, leading to qualifying as a registered children’s nurse.
Specialist practice programmes which are delivered in partnership with the CCNE and our affiliated universities.
Nurses engaging in continuing professional development programmes or higher education programmes.

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Introduction
Centre of Children’s Nurse Education (CCNE)
Post-Graduate courses at CHI

Centre of Children’s Nurse Education (CCNE)

The CCNE is based at CHI, with sites at Crumlin, Temple Street, Tallaght and Connolly.

The aim of the CCNE is to provide continuing education, training and professional development for registered children’s nurses and other children’s healthcare professionals. Nurses must constantly develop their knowledge and skills in order to deliver high quality care that is appropriate, safe, effective and efficient.

The CCNE helps nurses achieve this by offering a wide range of programmes that are relevant, based on best evidence and are responsive to current and emerging children’s healthcare needs.

View the CCNE’s Directory of Programmes 2023

Additional Information

Post-Graduate courses at CHI

The Postgraduate Diploma in Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing will prepare you to exercise an advanced level of clinical judgment and practice – beyond what is required of a registered general nurse (RGN) – in your specialist area of neonatal intensive care.

The programme aims to assist you in taking a leading role in advancing and developing nursing and midwifery in this area, and effecting policy change in professional practice and health service provision.

The programme is delivered part-time over one year; with an option to complete the programme over a period of up to three years if necessary.

Once you have successfully completed this postgraduate diploma you may decide to progress to Year 2 of the Masters in Science (MSc) Nursing, in your chosen specialist area.

Course code: C10801

Email: Nursing@rcsi.ie

Find out more here.

The Postgraduate Diploma in Perioperative Children’s Nursing will prepare you to exercise an advanced level of clinical judgment and practice – beyond what is required of a registered general nurse (RGN) – in your specialist area of perioperative children’s nursing.

The programme is delivered part-time over one year, with an option to complete the programme over a period of up to three years if necessary. Once you have successfully completed this postgraduate diploma you may decide to progress to Year 2 of the Masters in Science (MSc) Nursing, in your chosen specialist area.

Course code: PGDPOCN1

Email: Nursing@rcsi.ie

Find out more here.

UCD School of Nursing, Midwifery & Health Systems In partnership with CHI at Crumlin and Temple Street.

A Graduate Diploma Critical Care Nursing (Children) will build on your existing knowledge and skills in caring for infants, children and young people within the paediatric intensive care setting. Possessing this advanced knowledge will enable you to utilise a range of therapeutic interventions, and enhance your ability to review differing approaches and trends in the care and treatment of infants, children and young people in paediatric critical care nursing.

The Graduate Diploma Critical Care Nursing (Children) programme aims to build upon and advance the registered nurse’s repertoire of knowledge, skills, attitudes and professional values, in order to prepare the nurse to assume the role of a nurse specialist in this area of care. The programme aims to develop the practitioner’s capacities for caring and competent practice in paediatric intensive care nursing, in order to prepare the nurse to provide a patient-centred service within health care.

On successful completion of the programme, you will receive a Graduate Diploma in Critical Care Nursing (Children) from the UCD School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems. The programme is recognised nationally and internationally.

Duration : 1 Years / 2 Years, Full Time / Part Time

Contact: Tony Kynes

Contact number: +353(0)1 7166491

Application are available at http://www.ucd.ie/apply

Our Graduate Diploma Children’s Cardiac Nursing will build on your existing knowledge and skills in caring for children with a cardiac condition and their families, supporting you to practice at specialist level.

Students on this programme will undertake clinical placements in CHI at Crumlin and Clark Clinic at RBHSC. The placement locations will allow you to experience the care of a wide spectrum of presenting cardiac conditions including congenital heart disease, acquired cardiac defects in settings including the cardiac catheterisation laboratory, the hybrid lab, cardiac MRI and Cardiac theatre.
Lectures are both clinical and university-based and are delivered by a wide range of specialists. These include Specialist Nurses, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Cardiologists and Cardiothoracic Surgeons, Pharmacists, Radiologists, Dieticians, Physiotherapists and Psychologists.
There is a strong emphasis on continuous progression of clinical ability and clinical effectiveness through continuous assessment, clinical examinations, and case presentations
The delivery of specialist modules on care of the child with a cardiac condition.

Duration: 1 Years / 2 Years, Full Time / Part Time

Contact name: Paul Masterson

Contact number: +353 1 716 6448

Application are available at http://www.ucd.ie/apply

UCD School of Nursing, Midwifery & Health Systems In partnership with CHI at Crumlin and Temple Street.

The Graduate Diploma in Emergency Nursing (Children) programme runs in partnership with UCD School of Nursing, Midwifery & Health Systems, and Children’s Health Ireland at Temple Street and Crumlin. This programme aims to build upon and advance the emergency nurse’s repertoire of knowledge, skills, attitudes, and professional values. This programme will build on your existing knowledge and skills in caring for infants, children and young people within the paediatric emergency care settings. This training will enhance advanced knowledge of the nursing staff working in the paediatric emergency settings and enable them to utilise a range of therapeutic interventions and enhance their ability to review differing approaches and trends in the care and treatment of infants, children, young people and their families in paediatric emergency settings.

Duration : 1 Years / 2 Years, Full Time / Part Time

Contact name: Asmahan McCambridge

Contact number: +353 (0)1 716 6490

Application are available at http://www.ucd.ie/apply

UCD School of Nursing, Midwifery & Health Systems In partnership with CHI at Crumlin

The programme will enhance your existing knowledge and skills in caring for children with cancer.

The programme aims to develop the practitioner’s capacities for caring and competent practice in Children’s Cancer Nursing in order to prepare the nurse to provide patient-centred care within the health service. On successful completion of the programme, you will receive a Graduate Certificate in Nursing (Children’s Cancer Nursing). This is a highly regarded qualification for nurses caring for children with cancer in Ireland.

Possessing a broad and deep understanding of the theory and skills required for caring for children with cancer, you will be well positioned to work in a variety of settings specialising in this area both nationally and internationally. As the programme is particularly aimed at preparing nurses to assume the role of clinical nurse specialist, many nurses eventually take up CNS positions and some may undertake further study required for the role of ANP in children’s cancer nursing. Many nurses also proceed to assume CNM/Educational/Clinical Facilitator roles.

Duration: 1 Year part time

Contact name: Sean Kenny

Contact email: snmhsoffice@ucd.ie

Application are available at http://www.ucd.ie/apply

A number of contemporary practice focused modules have been developed by CHI at Temple Street, in association with the School of Nursing Psychotherapy and Community Health, Dublin City University to respond to the educational needs of nurses and other healthcare professionals. They provide an opportunity for registered nurses, working in the field of paediatric healthcare both in the hospital and community setting to gain insight and deeper understanding of a number of childhood conditions for example diabetes, asthma, inherited metabolic disorders. The content includes such areas as underlying pathology, treatment modalities, nursing/medical management and current research.

NS485 Care of Children and Adolescents with Diabetes.
NS443 Care of Children with Renal Disease
NS486 Children’s Neuroscience Care

Participants obtain 5 credits (NFQ, Level 8) from Dublin City University on successful completion of any of these modules.

Further information regarding each module is available at www.dcu.ie/nursing/professional.shtml

Application forms are available from:

Faculty of Science and Health, Dublin City University, Dublin 9
E: science@dcu.ie

Roinn an leathanach seo

Nurse education

Introduction

Ábhar an leathanaigh

Centre of Children’s Nurse Education (CCNE)

Post-Graduate courses at CHI

Post-Graduate Diploma in Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing (RCSI)

Post-Graduate Diploma Peri-operative Children’s Nursing (RCSI)

Graduate Diploma Critical Care Nursing (Children) (UCD)

Graduate Diploma Children’s Cardiac Care (UCD)

Graduate Diploma Emergency Nursing (Children) (UCD)

Graduate Certificate Children's Cancer Nursing (UCD)

Professional Stand Alone Modules (DCU)