The Emergency Department at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda provides an Adult and Paediatric emergency service for the populations of Louth, Meath, Monaghan and North County Dublin. The department treated 72,307 patients in 2024 with approx. 30% of these paediatric presentations. The department is the trauma centre for the North East and one of the busiest nationally. The department has established Advanced Nurse Practitioner services in Minor Injuries, Rapid Assessment and Treatment and Acute Medicine. We have undertaken a major capital development project, which has seen the expansion of the Emergency Department incorporating resuscitation rooms, treatment areas, and three high observations bays, a Clinical Decision Making Unit (CDU) and an expanded Paediatric ED and designated Minor Injury Unit. The Emergency Department division includes the Acute Medical Assessment Unit (AMAU), and Acute Medicine, Admission, Treatment and Investigation Unit (ATIU), the Dundalk Injury Unit as well as both adult and paediatric Emergency Departments. The department has two clinical facilitators, 1 of which is Paediatric, who will provide orientation to the department, and facilitate the many continual professional development (CPD) opportunities available. Courses include the Foundation Course in the Assessment and Management of the Acutely Ill Adult, PG Diploma in Paediatric / Adult Emergency Nursing and ACLS.

A panel will be formed as a result of this campaign from which current and future, permanent and specified purpose vacancies of full or part-time duration in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth

The HSE has created six new health regions. Each region is responsible for providing both hospital and community care for the people in that area. Bringing community health services and hospitals together means we can take a more patient-centred approach to healthcare.

HSE Dublin and North East provides health and social care to North Dublin, Louth, Meath,

Monaghan and most areas of Cavan.

HSE Dublin and North East Region includes the following hospitals;

• Beaumont Hospital
• Cavan General Hospital
• Connolly Hospital
• Louth County Hospital
• National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh
• Monaghan General Hospital
• Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
• Our Ladys Hospital Navan
• Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital
• Rotunda Hospital

HSE Job Spec CNM1 ED

Candidates  must have at the latest date of application:

• Be registered in the General Division of the Register of Nurses & Midwives maintained by Bord Altranais agus Cnáimhseachais na hÉireann (Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland) or be entitled to be so registered

And

• Have at least 3 years post registration experience of which 2 must be in the Emergency Department.

And

• Have the clinical, managerial and administrative capacity to properly discharge the functions of the role

Please note that appointment to and continuation in posts that require statutory registration is dependent upon the post holder maintaining annual registration in the relevant division of the register maintained by Bord Altranais agus Cnáimhseachais na hÉireann (Nursing Midwifery Board Ireland)

Relevant attachment: