About Us
The Nursing Service provided at the AMNCH aims to create, maintain and continuously develop a centre of excellence for Nursing in the hospital. It promotes, protects and improves health by providing a caring and holistic approach based on knowledge and skills in partnership with patients and their families and other healthcare professionals.
Professionally, nursing functions interdependently with other health care providers, all of whom share the goals of prevention of disease and disability, care of the ill, promotion and maintenance of optional health of individuals and groups and the achievement of a dignified death.
An integrated structure is provided which is conducive to the provision of high quality nursing care as well as the opportunity for the professional growth and development of each individual nurse. This is achieved through the effective use of resources and equity access to, and participation in, education and research programmes. In addition there is a continued development of our nursing roles and services and further information on our activities and developments can be found in our Annual Reports. Annual Reports
Concurrently demands on the nursing service have continued to increase and other demands such as the Health Strategy, increases in our population and a rapidly changing healthcare service have prompted the need for a more diverse service delivery. With increased demands the AMNCH nursing have responded by diversifying to meet the challenges of these demands and the needs of our patients. We recognised that we need to continue to respond to these opportunities and challenges.
History of the AMNCH Nursing Service
The AMNCH opened on Sunday June 21st 1998 following an imagulation of the Adelaide and Meath hospitals and incorporating the National Children’s Hospital (AMNCH). The nursing services philosophy is to provide a nursing service which will meet the individual healthcare needs of patients and deliver the highest quality of patient care in order to improve both clinical outcomes and quality of life. Read more…
Current Strategy
The AMNCH nursing service is an active member of the Dublin Academic Teaching Hospitals (DATH’s) group since its inception in the late 1990’s. The group has worked together on numerous initiatives and activities over the years. In 2009 the group developed a joint Nursing Strategy 2009-2012 “LEADING THE WAY IN QUALITY PATIENT CARE” which was set in the context of the HSE Transformation Programme. The principles that underpin the strategy are:
- Compassion.
- Empathy.
- Equity and advocacy for patient.
It’s strategic goals include:
- Service Delivery: Ensure best practice and the highest standard of care delivery.
- Leadership: Provide strategic and effective leadership both locally and nationally in order to influence the quality and safety of patient care delivery.
- Research, Education, Training and Professional Development: Continue to provide high quality research, education, training and professional development for all within the nursing service and multidisciplinary team.
- Human Resource Management: Develop Human Resources ability to maintain and develop our status as employers of choice. In addition provide challenging, motivating and rewarding work for our employees in an innovative, creative and development orientated environment.
All of the goals have clearly defined objectives, associated performance measures, actions, time frames and include identification of who is responsible for them.
Education & Professional Development
The further education and professional development of our nursing staff is very important to the AMNCH nursing service and is encouraged and supported. We are a teaching hospital linked to Trinity College Dublin (TCD) providing a clinical learning environment for nurses and have developed links with the Institute of Technology Tallaght. We have a Centre of Education. Read more…
Future
All in all the AMNCH Nursing service continues to be at the forefront of nursing development in the twenty-first century.
As we go forward we will continue to strive to create, maintain and continuously develop a centre of excellence for Nursing in the hospital. In addition we will continue to facilitate and provide a clinical learning environment for nurses and students in order to support the attainment of knowledge and skills and in turn provide an evidence based quality nursing service to our patients.
As evident from the history of our nursing service, from 1859 to the present day, we are born out of a tradition of nursing excellence in the delivery of nursing care which keeps the patient at the centre of all of our endeavours. We will, in the future, in all of our endeavours, developments and activities continue with this tradition.
Nursing Information Research Exchange
The AMNCH Nursing Service is a partner in the Nursing Information Research Exchange website www.nire.ie which has been developed to provide more widely accessible information and educational resources for nurses working in Ireland. This is in order to support their clinical practice and promote their professional development. Read more …..
Education & Research
Education
The further education of our nursing staff is very important to the AMNCH nursing service and is encouraged and supported. We are a teaching hospital linked to Trinity College Dublin (TCD) providing a clinical learning environment for nurses and have developed links with the Institute of Technology Tallaght.
Research
The AMNCH Nursing Service continues to be at the forefront of nursing development in the twenty-first century. As we go forward we continue to strive to create, maintain and continuously develop a centre of excellence for Nursing in the hospital. As a result we are involved in and support research activities.
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Events
The AMNCH Nursing Service is a partner in the Nursing Information Research Exchange website www.nire.ie.
The Nursing Information Research Exchange Website has been developed to provide more widely accessible information and educational resources for nurses working in Ireland. This is in order to support their clinical practice and promote their professional development.
In line with this a Navigation Links is provided to the Events Centre of the Nursing Information Research Exchange website which provides information on relevant AMNCH conferences etc. as well as other relevant events:
Events Centre Link: http://www.nire.ie/index.asp?locID=552&docID=-1
The Nursing Information Research Exchange (N.I.R.E.) Website Events Centre aims to provide information on:
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Publications
The AMNCH Nursing Portfolio delivers and provides a caring holistic nursing service based on knowledge and skills in partnership with other healthcare professionals, patients and their families.
The nursing service of AMNCH responds to service demands while retaining the highest possible standard of care for our patients.
In line with this the AMNCH nursing service is involved in numerous activities, including research, which produces publications.
Link to Publication Type | List of Publications |
| - Nursing Service Report 2006.
- Nursing Service Report 2007.
- Nursing Service Report 2008.
- Nursing Service Report 2009.
- Nursing Service Report 2010.
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| - Nursing Workforce Planning Project, undertaken by the Adelaide & Meath, incorporating the National Children's Hospital and Beaumont Hospitals Nursing Service 2007.
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| - Nursing 400 Booklet - Celebrating 400 Years of Nursing Care.
- AMNCH Nursing 400 Newsletter 2009 (Le Cheile).
- Nursing Conference Poster Abstracts & Speaker Profiles 2010
- Nursing Conference Poster Abstracts 2012
- Nursing Conference Speaker Profiles 2012
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