Bio

Aidan is a RANP in Emergency at Portiuncula University Hospital since 2013. He qualified from Portiuncula Hospital School of Nursing in 1992. Having gained experience as a staff nurse in a number of hospitals he returned to Portiuncula in 2000 and started working in the Emergency Department firstly as a staff nurse and then as […]

Margaret has been a RANP in Emergency Medicine since 2005. She is also a Registered Children’s Nurse, Nurse Prescriber of both Ionising Radiation and medications. She completed her MSc Advanced practice in UCD in 2004. Margaret established Ireland’s first Injury unit in Monaghan hospital and worked there until she was invited to establish an injury

Trisha has been a RANP since 2013. She began as a staff nurse in 1993 at Whipps Cross University Hospital, London and has worked in the Emergency setting since. She has been working in the ULHG for the past 17 years.She is also a Registered Children’s Nurse, Nurse Prescriber of both Ionising Radiation and medications.

Newly elected Secretary, Deirdre is working in University Hospital Limerick since September 2014. Previously she worked as a CNM I for the bones of 11 years in the Emergency Department in Nenagh General Hospital where she gained extensive knowledge and her passion for emergency nursing. During this peroid she embarked on an educational journey from

Audrey Butler (MHSc (Advanced Practice), RGN, BSN, RNP, HDip Ortho) has worked in the Dept of Trauma Orthopaedics in UHL for 15 years.Prior to this she worked as a Staff Nurse on the Orthopaedic Trauma Ward and was then appointed Clinical Nurse Specialist in 2007, a post she filled for nine years. Audrey has enhanced

Karen was the chairperson of the association from 2014 to 2018, promoting Advanced Nurse Midwifery practice at a national and International level. She is the current International liaison officer for the association, and a member of the ICN Advanced Practice subgroup. For the past 12 years she has worked in the Emergency Department of South

RN, RM, RNP, RANP, BNS, BSc (Hons) Neonatal Studies, MSc. Newly elected Chairperson, Christine has worked as a Registered Advanced Nurse Practitioner (Neonatology) at the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin since 2005 the first of such posts in neonatology. Her nursing career commenced with General Nursing at St James Hospital, Dublin and Midwifery at Our Lady of