Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery, RCSI

The Faculty is one of the longest-serving providers of nurse education in Ireland and has over the last four decades provided nurses and midwives from a variety of clinical nursing specialties with a diverse range of educational programmes. Today, the Faculty focuses on the continuing education of qualified nurses and midwives and offers an extensive and diverse range of CPD programmes and an Overseas Aptitude Test for international nurses as a prerequisite to registration with the NMBI. Faculty also created the European Centre of Excellence for Research in Continuing Professional Development. The aim of the European Centre of Excellence for Research in Continuing Professional Development is to establish a pan-European network of researchers, clinicians, regulators and professional bodies to advance the science of continuing professional development (CPD) through research, fostering partnerships that enable knowledge exchange to attain CPD best practices across Europe