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€5.75 Vol 24 No 2 March 2016 Student election to INMO Journal of the Irish Nurses and Executive Council Midwives Organisation See insert World of Irish Nursing & Midwifery Image credits: Portico of General Post Office, May 17, 1916 by TJ Westropp. By permission of the Royal Irish Academy © RIA 1916 Proclamation, given to Kathleen Clarke (Ref: 17NO-1A66-01). Courtesy of Kilmainham Gaol Museum Launch of taskforce report critical for safe staffing page 6 First National Maternity Strategy COPYRIGHT welcomed IMAGES page 17 Your questions answered on Transfer of Tasks process page 12-14 Interview with new NMBI president Essene Cassidy page 26 1916Special eight-page supplement CONTENTS 3 NEWS & VIEWS 29 Media Watch Ann Keating reviews INMO activities 5 Editorial reported in the news As the country awaits news on who will lead the 32nd Dáil, the need has never 37 1916 special supplement been greater for national consensus Mark Loughrey examines the role played on how our health service should be by nurses and midwives in the events of structured, funded and accessed, writes Easter 1916 (pull-out supplement) Liam Doran, INMO general secretary 50 Branch update 6 News This month we focus on the INMO Athy/ Launch of taskforce report a critical step in Baltinglass Branch ensuring safe staffing on wards… Report’s €2m pilot scheme set to get underway… 55 Code Corner Pilot sites chosen for taskforce staffing Edward Mathews continues his initiative… INMO wins restoration of examination of the new Code of student pay… ED members accept revised Professional Conduct and Ethics 6 proposals… Exercise your vote in Seanad Midwifery matters elections… Transfer of tasks agreed under 58 Focus on global call for action on LRA… INMO member elected NMBI preventable stillbirths president… INMO welcomes launch of Ireland’s first National Maternity 67 Update Strategy… Safe staffing agreed for Round up of healthcare news items Coombe delivery suite… Plus: ‘Cut-out-and-keep’ Q&A on Transfer of Tasks, page 13; Section news, page 19 CLINICAL 20 International news The largest international conference 51 CPD on violence in the health sector is set In our continuing professional education to take place in Ireland this year, writes series, Rebecca Pearsall and Gerry Elizabeth Adams Morrow examine jaundice in the newborn child 25 From the President INMO president Claire Mahon rounds up news from the Executive Council and beyond LIVING 61 Students & new graduates 65 Book review 26 Dean Flanagan updates readers on news Reflective Organizations: On the front for students and new graduates lines of QSEN & reflective practice implementation by Gwen D Sherwood Open letter 63 and Sara Horton-Deutsch. Reviewed by A reminder for members about their Lorna Peelo-Kilroe professional responsibilities when using Plus: Monthly crossword competition social media 71 Finance FEATURES Marc Evans offers tips on ensuring you have adequate home insurance cover COPYRIGHT 18 Section focus This month we focus on the Third Level IMAGE Student Health Nurses Section JOBS & TRAINING 22 Questions and answers 33 Professional Development Bulletin board for IR queries Eight-page pull-out section from the INMO PDC 24 Quality and safety This month Maureen Flynn looks at 72 Diary experience based co-design Listing of meetings and events nationally and internationally 26 Interview Tara Horan talks to new president of 73 Recruitment & Training Pull-out supplement the NMBI, Essene Cassidy, about the Latest job and training opportunities in Image by permission of the Royal Irish Academy © RIA Irish Academy permission of the Royal Image by challenges ahead for the board Ireland and overseas WIN WIN – World of Irish Nursing & Midwifery is distributed by controlled circulation to more than 32,000 members of the INMO. It is published monthly (10 issues a year) and is registered 2016 No 2 March 24 Vol 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. EDITORIAL 5 One hundred years on Journal of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation AS YOU are reading this editorial the World of Irish Nursing & Midwifery country will have voted, elected our TDs, and we may, or may not, have a govern- (ISSN: 2009-4264) Volume 24 Number 2 ment to lead the 32nd Dáil. I am writing March 2016 this on the eve of the election and it would WIN, appear, from opinion polls, that any new MedMedia Publications, government will involve a coalition of a 17 Adelaide Street, number of interests. Dun Laoghaire, In fairness to the recent election cam- Co Dublin. paign, whether you found it exciting or Website: www.medmedia.ie not, it did involve on this occasion, a sig- nificant degree of focus on our health health system. The public service must service, its current difficulties and how provide all services while the private sys- they might be resolved. It should also tem is heavily focused on elective/planned be noted that the INMO’s Trolley/Ward work. Acting Editor Tara Horan Watch is now used, on a daily basis, effec- However, at the same time, it has to Email: [email protected] tively as a barometer of the state of the be acknowledged that the latest CSO fig- Tel: 01 2710205 health service, as we count and make pub- ures, and the level of insight they provide Sub-editors Sinéad Makk, Anne Savage lic, the number of admitted patients on with regard to Irish expenditure on health, trolleys in inappropriate areas across our compared to our European neighbours, Designers Fiona Donohoe, Paula Quigley hospitals. provides information which cannot be Advertising manager Leon Ellison Indeed the INMO’s Trolley/Ward Watch ignored. Email: [email protected] is now an integral part of media coverage They certainly challenge everyone, who Tel: 01 2710218 of our health service, and I want to thank cares about our public health system, to Publisher Geraldine Meagan all of our members in emergency depart- redouble the effort to ensure we have a WIN – World of Irish Nursing & Midwifery ments and hospitals who supply us with universal healthcare service which is effi- is published in conjunction with the these figures on a daily basis. cient, effective and which treats everyone Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation by Against this backdrop it is good to see equally, with access being determined by MedMedia Group, Specialists in Healthcare the increased attention given to health need. Publishing & Design. by political parties. Indeed, any consider- All of this reinforces the need for a ation of all the various health manifestos national debate, leading to a national con- would indicate an increased awareness of sensus, on how our health service should the severity of the current difficulties, but be structured, funded and accessed. The sadly no obvious agreement on how they INMO, based on experience and the cur- can be addressed. rent situation, is calling again for the It is not automatically clear, from all incoming government, of whatever com- Editor-in-chief: Liam Doran of the policy statements on health, what bination, to initiate this national debate. INMO editorial board: the medium and long-term commitment We must look beyond the normal five year Claire Mahon; Geraldine Talty; Martina Harkin-Kelly; Moira Craig; Theresa Dixon; towards funding of our public health ser- horizon, to determine how we want our Eileen Kelly; Catherine Sheridan; Mary Leahy vice will be. It would still appear that health service to serve us both now and INMO editor: Ann Keating the budget for health will continue to be for the next 25 years. Email: [email protected] determined on an annual basis. This is In this issue we are also commemo- INMO editorial assistant: Freda Hughes both disappointing and contrary to what rating the role of nurses/midwives in the is required. Easter Rising of 1916. I sincerely believe INMO photographer: Lisa Moyles The debate on healthcare and, in par- you will find the supplement, written by INMO correspondence to: Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, ticular, how we fund our public health our own Mark Loughrey, to be interesting Whitworth Building, service, is also taking place against the and insightful with regard to how nurses North Brunswick Street, backdrop of recent figures from the and midwives, and hospitals, played their Dublin 7. Central Statistics Office (CSO). These indi- part over those traumatic days. Tel: 01 664 0600 cated that in this country, we spend more One hundred years on from that rising, WIN Fax: 01 661 0466 than our European neighbours on health, we continue to have many challenges. Let Email: [email protected] when you combine public/private expend- us hope that, in memory of those who 2016 No 2 March 24 Vol Website: www.inmo.ie iture including all charges and levies. In went before us, we now make the cor- bringing forward this information it is very rect decisions, particularly with regard to www.facebook.com/ important to remember that the combina- health, so that every citizen in this country irishnursesandmidwivesorganisation tion, of both public and private spend,