Entry Requirements • 2nd class honours (2:1) degree minimum in nursing or a related discipline. In exceptional circumstances clinical experience and continuing professional development may be taken into consideration. • Registered as a Nurse (RGN) on the professional register maintained by the NMBI. An up-to-date NMBI professional registration certificate is required. • 2 years (minimum) post- registration clinical experience. • 1 year (minimum) experience in your chosen speciality. • You must be engaged in specific practice settings relevant to the specialist area for the duration of the programme of study. • Written commitment from your line manager that they will support you in your application. • 1 academic and 1 clinical reference (these should be sought in advance of your application and should be on headed/organisation paper).
Hear from Specialist Nursing Graduates and Current Students Specialist Nursing – Perioperative Adnan Alrawahneh, Staff Nurse, Tallaght University Hospital “Trinity’s [Specialist Nursing-Perioperative] postgraduate course suited my career development, and the course was offered and funded by the hospital I am working in. It enhanced both my theoretical and clinical knowledge. It enhanced my critical thinking, enabling me to make clinical decision relying on evidence-based practice. The teaching process was smooth, and the academic staff were really great and helpful.”
Specialist Nursing – Intensive Care Tenzin Yiewong, Clinical Nurse Manager, St James’s Hospital
“I was awarded the highest end of year mark at distinction level in M.Sc. in Specialist Nursing - Intensive Care Nursing by Trinity College Dublin. I also had the privilege of presenting my thesis posters at local, national and international level and won prizes for the same. Later, I published my Master's thesis on "Early sedation with dexmedetomidine in post- operative adult intensive care unit patients" with the Nursing in Critical Care Journal by British Association of Critical Care Nurses (BACCN). Trinity helped transform me, a Tibetan refugee girl with hopes, dreams and ambitions into an internationally published author and a well-rounded nurse! Trinity offers a very high standard curriculum along with excellent professors which gave me the opportunity to challenge and push my own educational limits to its peak. Since I started my postgraduate journey at Trinity, I had a steep vertical growth in my career at St. James's Hospital ranging from working as a skilled ICU bedside nurse to an interim Clinical Nurse Manager (CNM) in ICU to further getting promoted as CNM2 and now being the departmental head of the Cardiothoracic Unit where I represent critical care unit proudly from CNM3 point of view.”
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