Nursing - Psychiatric Nursing - Waterford

Psychiatric/Mental Health nursing is a specialist field within the health care profession. It involves an interpersonal caring process which acknowledges the uniqueness of each person. The psychiatric nurse is concerned with the promotion of mental health, the prevention of mental illness and the provision of care to those with mental health problems.

Leaving Cert: 2 subjects: H5 4 subjects:O6/H7 English or Irish: O6/H7 Mathematics: O6/H7 Science: O6/H7 A laboratory science subject (biology, physics, chemistry, physics & chemistry (joint) or agricultural science) Three other subjects (may include Irish or English and a laboratory science subject not included already) or have equivalent second level educational qualifications to the foregoing. The minimum educational requirements may be accumulated over not more than two sittings of the leaving certificate examination or an equivalent examination.