2017 NMBI Public Consultations
Consultations run by NMBI during 2017, seeking input from stakeholders and the general public.
October 2017
Competency Assessment Documents
NMBI issued a consultation regarding proposed Competency Assessment Documents for first year undergraduate students in Children's Nursing, Psychiatric Nursing, Intellectual Disability Nursing and General Nursing. Guidelines for Preceptors were also proposed.
Proposed Competency Assessment Documents and Guidelines
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July 2017
Advanced Practice Rules
This consultation involved a proposal to revoke two statutory instruments regarding Advanced Practice and replace them with new rules regarding education and training rules and registration rules that ensured that NMBI would continue to set the requirements and standards for advanced nursing and midwifery practice and registration but will no longer accredit advanced practice posts.
Advanced Practice Rules
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April 2017
Nurses and Midwives Rules
This consultation was to propose changes to the Nurses and Midwives Rules in order to comply with the Board’s obligation per Section 13(4)(b) of the Nurses and Midwives Act 2011 and regulatory best practice, requiring applicants complete declarations, on applications for registration and retention to NMBI, in relation to good character and health and would also be required to disclose issues such as criminal convictions, findings/sanctions by other regulatory bodies and health issues that may impair their ability to practise.
March 2017
Disbandment of the Inactive File
The NMBI issued a public consultation process regarding the disbandment of the Inactive File. The Inactive File was established in May 1993 as an administrative mechanism to manage nurses and midwives who weren’t in active practice in Ireland. There was and is no legislative basis for the Board to maintain the Inactive File. Currently there are approx. 30,000 names on this file. Under the Nurses and Midwives Act 2011 a new provision has been introduced to enable registrants to voluntarily remove themselves from the Register (section 50 (1)). New obligations have been introduced for registrants and accordingly, the NMBI must regularise this “Inactive File”.