Integrated Children's and General Nursing

What is Nursing?

The role of the nurse is to provide evidence-based, culturally-sensitive care in order to assist the individual to lead an independent healthy lifestyle, overcome ill health or experience a peaceful death. The nurse achieves this through working as part of a professional multidisciplinary team to provide primary healthcare, acute hospital care, community and home and continuing care, based on individual and population health needs across the lifespan.

Students of nursing learn about caring and the complexities of health and illness through interactive teaching and learning strategies in the classroom and the healthcare environment. Practice (clinical and community) experience provides the student with opportunities to integrate the art and science of nursing and promotes the development of caring relationships with patients/service users and their families/significant others.

Nursing practice, rooted in compassion, draws upon extensive knowledge and experience to provide physical and psychological care of the highest quality. Nurses take centre stage in ensuring efficient and effective delivery of accessible, integrated and consumer-driven healthcare, creatively designing health related services, and ensure quality through advocacy, policy-making, service management, education and research.

A Registered Children’s Nurse (R.C.N.) promotes optimum health and well-being for children and young people. This is done through the use of a child- and family-centred philosophy, where negotiation of care and participation in care are central to a partnership approach to care.

The four-year nursing courses (the Children’s and General Integrated stream lasts for 4.5 years) are offered in partnership with seven health service providers. Trinity’s linked health service provider for this course is Children’s Health Ireland (CHI).

This programme is not open to non-EU applicants. Please refer to this page to determine if you are considered a non-EU applicant.

Leaving Certificate:

O6/H6 in Mathematics

O6/H6 in one of Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Physics/Chemistry or Agricultural Science

GCSE:

Grade C/5 in Mathematics

Grade C/5 in one of Biology, Physics or Chemistry

International Baccalaureate:

SL Grade 4 Mathematics

SL Grade 4 in one of Biology, Physics or Chemistry

Mature Applicants:

Mature Applicants should follow the instructions in the CAO handbook (available at www.cao.ie).

Applicants who have previously been unsuccessful (academic and/or placement) in any Nursing or Midwifery programme or have any issues which would affect their registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland will only be considered for re-entry to Nursing or Midwifery on a case-by-case appeal basis to the relevant Programme Board. Such applicants should make their case in writing to the Admissions Officer and include any relevant details of extenuating circumstances.

Entrants will have to pass Trinity's health screening requirements, you can learn more here.

Students will also be required to undergo Garda Vetting, you can learn more here.

English Language Requirements

All applicants to Trinity are required to provide official evidence of proficiency in the English language. Applicants to this course are required to meet Band B (Standard Entry) English language requirements. For more details of qualifications that meet Band B, see the English Language Requirements page here.

Applicants for the Trinity International Foundation Programme require IELTS 5.0 overall, with 5.0 in Writing and no band below 4.5.

Applicants for all Undergraduate and Postgraduate programmes must present one of the following English language qualifications.

Graduates from the Trinity School of Nursing and Midwifery will be competent, innovative, and caring professionals who are capable of leading change, shaping policy and responding to an ever evolving healthcare environment.