Nursing & Midwifery - Advanced Practice Nursing

Enhance your nursing career with skills and knowledge underpinned by research, critical thinking and experiential learning towards advanced practice nursing competency development.

To be eligible for the programme you must: 1. Have a minimum of an MSc in nursing or equivalent. 2. Hold active registration on a division of the professional register maintained by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland. 3. 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. 4. Have evidence of support from your employer and a completed Site Declaration Form, signed by the Director of Nursing/Public Health/authorised nurse manager. This must contain confirmation of a designated medical practitioner mentor and/or RANP mentor. 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 you may not have obtained the standard entry requirements. This is considered on a case-by-case basis. Exemptions from programme modules that 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 requirements exceptions English language requirements for RCSI Postgraduate programmes are published here. 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.