What we do
Nursing Forum
As a representative body of the Nurse Membership of the IAPC, the Nursing Forum is charged with establishing aims and objectives of the group in line with those brought by the wider membership of nurses within the IAPC. This will be an ongoing and iterative process.
Vision
To develop and promote palliative care nursing through education, advocacy, research leadership and peer support ensuring equitable patient centred care is at the forefront of service provision
Mission
The nursing forum aims to
– Deliver educational opportunities specific to the needs of our members
– Create a platform for sharing knowledge, best practices and passion for palliative care nursing
– Provide opportunities for representation on national and international committees to influence policy
Through engagement with the IAPC membership, it has become apparent that nurses within the IAPC wish to be connected through a formal network within the IAPC.Nurses make up the largest group of professionals within the IAPC comprising currently approximately 120 members. Historically and presently, there is no formal national network of nurses working in interdisciplinary palliative care that functions as a membership organisation. While nurses are linked in and are active in a variety of networks within the wider palliative care field in Ireland, there is an absence of a single voice for palliative care nurses like there is in many other specialities e.g., Gerontological Nurses, Respiratory Nurses, Urology Nurses etc. hence the IAPC Nursing Forum has been established to fill that void.
In order for nurses to proactively contribute to the IAPC’s objectives, opportunities within this large and diverse subgroup of members must be created to enhance networking, share learning, provide opportunities for education, promote evidence-based research, produce publications, and generate a body of experts to represent palliative care nursing on national bodies and to influence the development of national policy. The IAPC Nursing Forum has become a major strand of the IAPC’s work agenda and through this will address key strategic aims of the organisation.
The establishment of the IAPC Nursing Forum aims to create an innovative and energetic space where IAPC nurses come together to network and identify and progress areas of communal interest with a future focus. Furthermore, the Forum has the potential to be the source of a strong nursing voice within the interdisciplinary palliative care field in the whole of Ireland and further afield.
Whilst the Nursing Forum steering group consists of 12-15 members, the Forum represents the voice of all nurse members of the IAPC.
Specifically, it will:
Forum members
Who are the Nursing Forum
Caoimhe Wade
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Irish Cancer Society
Cathy Killeen
Night Nursing Education
Development Co-ordinator
Irish Cancer Society
Deborah Murphy
Clinical Nurse Specialist
University Hospital Waterford
Geraldine Purcell
Vice-Chair
Lecturer in Nursing
South East Technological University
Julie Goss
Chair
Advanced Nurse Practitioner
Our Lady’s Hospice, Dublin
Lasarina Marguire
Night Nurse
Irish Cancer Society
Linda Rogers
Secretary
Advanced Nurse Practitioner Specialist
Naas General Hospital
Mary Burke
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Galway University Hospital
Paula Ward
Palliative Care Advanced
Nurse Practitioner
Midland Regional Hospital
Tina Bolger
Childrens Clinical Nurse Specialist
Kerry Hospice
Zara Fay
Clinical Nurse Specialist/Assistant Prof in Palliative Care
St. Francis Hospice, Dublin
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