Nursing and midwifery policies and guidance
Welcome to the policies and guidance page of the Chief Nursing Officer. Her team of professional nurses provide advice on acute and children's services, mental health, elderly care, learning and physical disabilities, public health, community nursing, primary care, midwifery, and international issues in nursing. They also advise on the regulations of professions, education policy, workforce planning and development.
Acute nursing
Mental Health & Learning Disability
- Strengthening the commitment - The report of the UK modernising learning disabilities nursing review - April 2012
- Delivering excellence supporting recovery - A professional framework for mental health nursing Northern Ireland
Midwifery
- Midwifery 2020 - Delivering expectations
- Safer practice in intrapartum care - Testing care bundles during the use of electronic fetal monitoring
Childrens Nursing
- Safeguarding children supervision for nurses and midwives
- Healthy Futures 2010-2015 - The contribution of health visitors and school nurses in Northern Ireland
- Integrated care pathway for children and young people with complex physical healthcare needs
- Developing services to children and young people with complex physical healthcare needs
General
- Nurse Prescribing
- Partnership for Care - Northern Ireland strategy for nursing and midwifery 2010-2015
- Quality 2020
- Transforming your Care
- Living Matters Dying Matters
- Improving Outcomes through R&D
- Advanced Nursing Practice Framework
- Delivering Care: Nurse Staffing Levels in Northern Ireland
- A Workforce Plan for Nursing and Midwifery in Northern Ireland 2015-2025
- Care of the Deceased Patient and their Family - A Guideline for Nursing Practice in Northern Ireland