Nursing - Intensive Care

The Postgraduate Diploma in Health Sciences (Intensive Care) offers registered nurses a specialist qualification in intensive care nursing through a flexible, blended learning format.

Be a registered nurse on the General division of the register maintained by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI); Have a minimum of six months’ post-registration experience (exclusive of post-registration courses); Be currently working in Ireland in the required specialist area, i.e., Intensive Care, and have as a minimum six months’ clinical experience in this specialist area; Provide written evidence of support from their Director of Nursing for the duration of the programme; Have an honours bachelor’s degree at NFQ Level 8 in nursing or a comparable qualification. Applicants who do not hold an honours degree or Higher Diploma (Level 8) must demonstrate that they have successfully completed (in the previous two years) a module at Level 9 at: www.nuigalway.ie/pca/pca.html; Applicants for this programme who have undertaken the National Foundation Education Module in Intensive Care Nursing at UCD or UCC may apply for exemption for the Specialist Module 1 on the Masters/Postgraduate Diploma in Health Sciences (Intensive Care) in University of Galway.