Nursing & Midwifery - Advanced Practice Nursing

On the successful completion of the MSc in Advanced Practice Nursing Programme, nurses are eligible to proceed to registration as registered advanced nurse practitioners with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland.

To be eligible for this programme you must:

• Have a minimum of an honours primary degree in nursing or equivalent.
• Hold an active registration on a division of the professional register maintained by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland.
• Have three years’ recent post-registration clinical experience in nursing/midwifery (within the past five years), with the equivalent of one-year, full-time experience in the specific area of practice.
• Provide evidence of support from an employer and a completed Site Declaration Form (Advanced Practice Nursing Site Declaration Form All Applicants), signed by the director of nursing/public health/authorised nurse manager. The Site Declaration Form must contain confirmation of a designated medical practitioner mentor and/or ANP mentor.
• Demonstrate evidence of continuing professional development.
• Possess a competent level of information technology literacy.
• Be currently employed as a nurse or midwife in the voluntary and statutory services of the HSE or a private health service organisation in Ireland. Recognition of prior learning (RPL) Learning occurs in many contexts including work, involvement in social and community activities, and learning through life experience generally. Recognition of prior learning (RPL) does not give credit for experience as such – rather, it considers learning that was acquired as a result of the experience. RPL may be used to gain admission to programmes where an applicant may not have obtained the standard entry requirements. This is considered on a case-by-case basis. Exemptions from programme modules which duplicate learning already demonstrably acquired through prior learning may also be considered on a case-by-case basis. For more information, please contact the School of Nursing and Midwifery: Tel: +353 1 402 2445 Email: nursing@rcsi.ie English language requirement exceptions English language requirements for RCSI Postgraduate programmes are published on the RCSI website at https://www.rcsi.com/dublin/postgraduate/policies-and-guidelines/english-language-requirements If you have completed undergraduate/postgraduate full-time studies in the medium of the English language (three or more years cumulatively) or are registered with the NMBI, you are exempt from these requirements.