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Nursing Now, a global campaign to raise the status of nursing, will launch in Ireland next Thursday 25th of April, at a former hospital, the Richmond Education & Event Centre, Dublin 7. The event runs from 11am to 1pm.
The campaign aims for recognition of nurses’ contribution to healthcare, gender equality, and wider society. Its aims include greater investment in nursing, more nurses in leadership positions, and increasing nurses’ input and impact on healthcare.
Nursing Now will run until 2020 – the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth.
Speakers include:
Elizabeth Adams – President, European Federation of Nurses
Howard Catton – CEO, International Council of Nurses
Dame Christine Beasley - Trustee of the Burdett Trust for Nursing
Martina Harkin-Kelly – President, INMO
The event will also hear from practising nurses in Ireland, including:
Roisin O’Connell – a student nurse in Waterford IT
Ailish Byrne – an intellectual disabilities nurse
Shirley Ingram – an advanced nurse practitioner in cardiology, Tallaght Hospital
Members of the Inishowen Palestine Solidarity Campaign are among those who will take part in the Long March for Gaza on September 13, with the public urged to join in.
The open competition is welcoming both ladies and gents, with entry priced at €20 per person
Caithorleach of Letterkenny/Milford Municipal District, Ciaran Brogan, cutting the ribbon at the event
The ESB is working to remove a pole at the bottom of Convent Road
R. Mc Cullagh Jewellers on Letterkenny Main Street
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