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€5.75 Vol 25 No 10 December 2017 / January 2018 Latest INMO CPD education Journal of the Irish Nurses and programme Midwives Organisation Page 33 World of Irish Nursing & Midwifery Farewell editorial from Liam Doran page 4 Pay Commission gets down to work page 9 New network for nurse/midwife leaders page 25 New Pink Power campaign page 27 Clear aims 2018: Let’s make it ours CONTENTS 3 NEWS & VIEWS 29 Comhlámh Ruth Powell explains how Comhlámh 4 Editorial assists those thinking about volunteering In his final editorial, Liam Doran, INMO their skills either at home or abroad general secretary, reflects on the Organisation’s journey during his two- 31 Questions and answers decade tenure Bulletin board for IR queries 8 News 51 Executive Council focus Overcrowding at record level in 2017... A series profiling three members of the INMO submission to Pay Commission... INMO Executive each month ESRI report presents major challenge... 2018 Executive Council elections – call 52 Quality and safety This month Maureen Flynn looks at for leaders... Actions agreed at WRC 4 Measurement for Improvement ED review... HSE issues clarification on Trust in Care and Safeguarding policies... Midwifery Transfer of tasks progressing well... 55 Paula Barry examines the strengths, Resolution close on PHN contracts of weaknesses, opportunities and threats employment... Governance of home relating to the midwife’s role in the Irish helps under focus... Review of medication health service management in ID sector... India main source of new recruits... Success for 63 Update community midwives’ subsistence Round up of healthcare news items claim...Temporary reassignment of IROs... Work to rule likely at St Finbarr’s... Staffing issues in Bandon and Fermoy... CLINICAL Tallaght ED remains ‘intolerable’... 43 CPD Plus: Section news, page 21 Rebecca Elliot, Nina Thirlway and Gerry Morrow focus on pre-conception advice 7 From the President for women who are planning a pregnancy INMO president Martina Harkin-Kelly rounds up news from the Executive Council and beyond LIVING Book review 22 International news 59 Elizabeth Adams introduces the Nursing Tara Horan reviews I Found My Tribe by Now! campaign which aims to release Ruth Fitzmaurice the potential of nurses to deliver Plus: Monthly crossword competition universal health coverage 61 Finance Ivan Ahern explains how to find out if 49 Students & new graduates Liam Conway updates readers on news you are due a tax refund in 2018 for students and new graduates JOBS & TRAINING FEATURES 33 Professional Development Eight-page pull-out section from the 25 Leadership INMO PDC The Nursing and Midwifery Leadership Network was set up to foster collaboration 66 Diary and innovation among leaders nationally Listing of meetings and events nationally and internationally 27 Pink Power The INMO has relaunched its successful 67 Recruitment & Training Pink and Blue Power cancer screening Latest job and training opportunities in campaigns Ireland and overseas 27 WIN Vol 25 No 10 December 2017/January 2018 Vol WIN – World of Irish Nursing & Midwifery is distributed by controlled circulation to more than 35,000 members of the INMO. It is published monthly (10 issues a year) and is registered at the GPO as a periodical. Its contents in full are Copyright© of MedMedia Ltd. No articles may be reproduced either in full or in part without the prior, written permission of the publishers. The views expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the INMO. Annual Subscription: e145 incl. postage paid. Editorial Statement: WIN is produced by professional medical journalists working closely with individual nurses, midwives and officers on behalf of the INMO. Acceptance of an advertisement or article does not imply endorsement by the publishers or the Organisation. Irish Nurses and Thank you – it has been a privilege Midwives Organisation World of Irish Nursing & Midwifery AS YOU will show that, in July 2008, the working may know, week of every nurse and midwife in Ire- (ISSN: 2009-4264) I am retir- land was reduced to 37.5. This was the first Volume 25 Number 10 December 2017/ January 2018 ing at the reduction in the working week of a single WIN, end of this occupation for over 40 years. This cam- MedMedia Publications, month, paign was remarkable in that the reduction 17 Adelaide Street, so this is was achieved without any loss of pay to Dun Laoghaire, my last any member of the Organisation. Co Dublin. editorial This campaign was fought against the Website: www.medmedia.ie for WIN and in that context I would like to background of increasing levels of hospi- reflect, for a few moments, on the growth tal overcrowding. In response to this the and development of this great Organisation Organisation had initiated our daily Trolley since I started, as its first student officer, in Watch – the measurement of the number June 1983 when the Organisation had just of admitted patients without an inpatient Editor Alison Moore over 9,000 members. Between 1983 and bed. Trolley Watch has now become syn- Email: [email protected] 1998, when I became general secretary, I onymous with the INMO, and is accepted Tel: 01 2710216 worked as student officer, industrial rela- as the most potent measure of the levels Production & news editor Tara Horan tions officer, head of industrial relations and of overcrowding being endured, by patients Sub-editor Fodhla McCarthy deputy general secretary. Over that 15 years and staff, on a daily basis. I worked with three general secretaries, Ena However, I now turn to the dark, and Designers Fiona Donohoe, Paula Quigley Meehan, John Pepper and PJ Madden (now dismal, five years spanning 2009 to 2013. Commercial director Leon Ellison Fr Madden) and wish to thank them, most During this five-year period I had, as general Email: [email protected] sincerely, for the help, support and guid- secretary, to recommend members should Tel: 01 2710218 ance they gave me in those early years. accept cuts in pay and working conditions Publisher Geraldine Meagan I became general secretary in Septem- (including a return to the 39-hour week) WIN – World of Irish Nursing & Midwifery ber 1998, following a threatened national because the alternative – government is published in conjunction with the dispute, in 1996, with the Commission on imposed cuts – would be worse. However, Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation by Nursing about to report and the Organ- I want to state that this Organisation’s MedMedia Group, Specialists in Healthcare isation having grown to over 20,000 refusal to accept cuts in Sunday/public hol- Publishing & Design. members. In October 1999 we com- iday and night duty premium, as suggested menced a nine-day national strike which, in the first Haddington Road proposals, still like many of you, I remember very vividly. I represents one of the proudest days of my am resolute in my conviction that the out- tenure of general secretary. come of that dispute, in terms of pay, new It must be understood that if the INMO career opportunities, the development of had not led that campaign of rejection of Editor-in-chief: Liam Doran the honours degree programme and the those proposals, nurses/midwives, and all INMO editorial board: acceptance of our involvement in all mat- other public servants who work 24/7, would Martina Harkin-Kelly; Mary Leahy; ters of concern to nurses and midwives, have suffered permanent cuts in premium Margaret Frahill; Frances Cullen; Kay Garvey; confirms those nine days were a watershed pay. This was avoided because of our cam- Mary Gorman; Karen McGowan in the development of this Organisation. paign which resulted in 14 of the 19 public INMO editor: Ann Keating In 2007/2008 the INMO was again sector trade unions rejecting the proposals Email: [email protected] involved in a nationwide dispute, as we – many of them against the recommenda- INMO editorial assistant: Freda Hughes sought a reduced working week in line with tions of their executives. The INMO, during INMO photographer: Lisa Moyles other allied health professionals. History that dark period, led from the front and this INMO correspondence to: is something of which I am very Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, proud. Whitworth Building, Since 1998 I have had the North Brunswick Street, honour of working with seven Dublin 7. Tel: 01 664 0600 presidents: Ann Cody; Clare Fax: 01 661 0466 Spillane RIP; Ann Martin; Made- Email: [email protected] line Spiers; Sheila Dickson; Claire Website: www.inmo.ie Mahon; and, currently, Martina Harkin-Kelly. All great people, who have given time, determi- www.facebook.com/ irishnursesandmidwivesorganisation nation and leadership to this Organisation. I wish to thank them for being so supportive of twitter.com/INMO_IRL me at all times. I have served Editorial 5 Thank you – it has been a privilege 10 Executive Councils working with excel- and the range of industrial, lent people who gave up their time to lead, professional and educational and at times make difficult decisions, in the services we provide. interests of the entire membership. I now want to say a It has also been my privilege to know very sincere thank you to hundreds of branch/section officers and everyone who has worked local representatives over these years, with me in the Organisa- who I respect, and appreciate, more than tion. I have had brilliant, I can ever say in words. Our union can only thoughtful, determined and thrive, serve and grow through the work committed people at my of local activists. These officers and local side at all times. The current representatives have been the backbone of team is simply the best and this Organisation and I shall never forget we have met the challenges, their diligence, commitment, loyalty and and the dark days, surviving steadfastness to do everything possible to only because we leaned on help members with their workplace issues each other.