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The Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has announced The Final Evaluation Report on the Impact of Implementing the Draft Policy on expanding Graduate, Specialist and Advanced Nursing Practice has been published by the Department of Health. The policy was implemented across the four service areas of older persons, unscheduled (ED), respiratory and rheumatology care and evaluated through the work of 124 ANPs appointed to these areas of services with known challenges. The independent evaluation of the policy implementation was led jointly by Professor Anne-Marie Brady, Trinity College Dublin and Professor Johnathan Drennan, University College Cork. The evaluation examined the specific impact of Advanced Nurse Practitioners on service challenges using several key indicators such as, access to services, waiting lists, avoidance of unnecessary hospital admissions, improved patient flow, and support for early discharge from hospital.

Mental Health services have had to radically adapt nursing practice in response to the COVID-19 crisis. This article explores 'Nursing leadership in response to the COVID-19 crisis in an Irish independent mental health service'. It acknowledges that nurses are the backbone of our health service and they continue to prove their ability to adapt flexibly and to provide quality care to service users in a professional and compassionate manner. This article was researched and written by Shane Kirwan (Nurse Practice Development Coordinator, St. Patrick's Mental Health Services), Paddy Cunningham (St. Patrick's Mental Health Services), Dr Gráinne Donohue (Research Fellow, TCPHI), Dr Brian Keogh (Principal Investigator, TCPHI) and John Creedon (St. Patrick's Mental Health Services).

The School of Nursing & Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin is seeking to recruit a Research Fellow to work on the TCPHI collaboration with the HSE Community Healthcare Dublin South, Kildare & West Wicklow Public Health Nursing services. The role will involve liaising between the service providers and research teams to ensure evidence-based research for the enhancement of service-user outcomes is conducted and internationally peer reviewed outputs for dissemination to the wider nursing population are achieved. The Principal Investigator of the collaboration is Dr Gobnait Byrne. The closing date to apply is 5pm (GMT) on Friday 21st May 2021. Click on the link to see the job description and apply for Vacancy ID: 034984 on jobs.tcd.ie.

An international conference on 'Person-centredness in Healthcare Curricula: Achieving Consensus' will take place on 20th May 2021 from 9.30am to 4.30pm (CET-1). It will present the proposed person-centred curriculum and launch the pilot website that the team have been working on. The team is led by Professor Brendan McCormack, Queen Margaret University, Scotland and involves collaborations with universities in Norway, Slovenia, Ireland and the Netherlands. The academics involved from Trinity College Dublin are Dr Gobnait Byrne (Director of TCPHI) and Professor Amanda Phelan. (Click the link for registration details).