Events
Events 2025 Events Collaborative Storytelling Event to Mark International Day of the Midwife and International Nurses Day Launch of the Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics Events
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Temporary and Occasional Applications
Temporary and Occasional Applications G1 and G2 applicants may provide their services in Ireland on a temporary and occasional basis. We look at the following criteria to assess the provision of nursing and midwifery services temporarily: Duration Frequency Re...
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Director of Education, Policy and Standards
Lorraine Clarke Lorraine Clarke currently serves as the Director of Education, Policy and Standards. She is a registered general nurse, having trained at the Eastern Area College of Nursing (Southside) in Belfast. Lorraine has over 30 years of experience in nursing acr...
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Statement of Strategy 2023-2025
Launch of our Statement of Strategy 2023-2025 On 26 April 2023, we launched our new Statement of Strategy which will run from 2023-2025. As part of the new strategy, over the next three years, NMBI will focus on protecting, promoting, and progressing the nursing and m...
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Publications Policy (1985 Act)
Publication policy: Nurses Act 1985 This is the publication policy following fitness to practise inquiries held pursuant to Part V of the Nurses Act, 1985. This policy was approved by the Board on the 28 April 2015. 1. Relevant legislation. Part V, Nurses Act 1985. 2. L...
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What is the Help Centre?
What is the help centre? The Help Centre: what it is The Help Centre section on Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI) website is designed to address the top nursing and midwifery questions which: Registered nurses and midwives have in their day to day practice...
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Outcomes of Assessment
Outcomes of Assessment Following the assessment of your application, NMBI will inform you of one of the assessment outcomes: 1. Your qualifications have been recognised. 2. Further information is required. 3. You are required to successfully complete...
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Assessment
Education Assessment of midwifery programmes These standards and requirements set out the educational standards and requirements for the assessment strategy for undergraduate midwife registration programmes. Assessment process Assessment of learning is a continual process ...
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Preparing your Documents
Preparing your Documents It is important that you submit valid and translated documents to avoid any delays in processing your application. The documents you will need to submit depend on many factors (for example if you are a G1, G2 or G3 Applicant, if you hold an EPC...
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Webinar to Launch Standards and Requirements for Graduate Entry Nursing and Digital Health
Webinar to Launch Standards and Requirements for Graduate Entry Nursing and Digital Health Competency On 21 June 2023, we held a webinar to introduce education bodies and practice partner sites to the new standards and requirements for education programmes on graduate entry ...
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Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland MOU
What we do Memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland The following is the Memorandum of Understanding between the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI) and the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland concerning co-operation in the reg...
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Submitting a complaint
Submitting a complaint The Preliminary Proceedings Committee (PPC) of NMBI can only deal with written complaints made against registered nurses or registered midwives. If you wish to make a complaint against a registered nurse or registered midwife, please put your compla...
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Freedom of Information
Freedom of Information Introduction The Freedom of Information Act 2014 (FOI) provides that every person has the following: A legal right to access official records held by public bodies listed in the Act. A legal right to have personal information held...
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University College Cork
Children’s Nursing in the Community – Care Closer to Home The first of NMBI’s Summer Series events was hosted by the School of Nursing at University College Cork and focused on the theme Children’s Nursing in the Community – Care Closer to Home. President of the N...
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Preliminary Proceedings Committee
Preliminary Proceedings Committee investigates complaints The role of the Preliminary Proceedings Committee (PPC) is to give initial consideration to complaints. It can refer complaints to the Fitness to Practise Committee, accept an undertaking or make recommendations to th...
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Legislation
Nurses and Midwives Act 2011, as amended On 21 December 2011, the Nurses and Midwives Act 2011 was signed into law. This Act updated the provisions relating to the regulation of nurses and midwives in Ireland. The Act recognised midwifery as a separate and distinct prof...
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Preparing your Documents
Preparing your Documents It is important that you submit valid and translated documents to avoid any delays in processing your application. The documents you will need to submit depend on many factors (for example if you are a G1, G2 or G3 Applicant, if you hold an EPC...
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Add New Division
Adding a New Division to your Existing Registration Record This section is relevant to those who are already registered in the Register of Nurses and Midwives and would like to add a new division to their registration record. This only applies to those who qualified in Irela...
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Registration
Registration This section relates to documents about the NMBI registration process. All nurses and midwives who practise in Ireland must by law be listed on the Register of Nurses and Midwives which is maintained by NMBI. NMBI State of the Register Competence Assessment...
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Graduate Entry Nursing
Graduate Entry Nursing General Registration Education Programme Standards and Requirements NMBI has published the first edition of Graduate Entry General Nurse Registration Education Programme Standards and Requirements . The standards and requirements provide the first edu...
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