The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI) is holding a public consultation on the draft Nurse Registration Programme Standards and Requirements for undergraduate students until 20 May, 2025, and is asking members to read the draft document and submit feedback through an online survey. Following the public consultation, NMBI will review, analyse, and integrate the feedback received into the draft standards and requirements.
As the national regulator, NMBI publishes the standards and requirements to guide the design, development, delivery, and evaluation of nursing and midwifery registration programmes, and is mandated to do so under the Nurses and Midwives Act 2011. NMBI firstly sets the regulatory standards, and then the higher education institutions write the curriculum, all the while mapping the content of the curriculum to those standards.
NMBI Interim CEO Carolyn Donohoe said: “This is a positive initiative with sound reasoning behind it. Building and strengthening the standards and requirements for undergraduate students will mean that they will be better equipped to support population-based care delivery in the community and in hospitals that is based on patient needs.”
In late May, NMBI will circulate a draft report on the public consultation for feedback and will facilitate online meetings with key stakeholders in June, prior to submitting a final draft to the NMBI Board in July 2025. The new standards and requirements and a new curriculum will be in place for student nurses entering third level from the autumn of 2027.
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