A nursing home sacked a clinical nurse manager after she allegedly set up a Facebook account on which images were posted of a resident’s buttocks and of a deceased resident laid out in her bed in preparation for her funeral.

Fiona Kirwan, Director of Nursing, Beacon Hospital, Sandyford

Aisling Fahey, 25, chose a career in nursing because she loves helping people, but some days she heads home after her shift wondering if she helped anyone at all.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said were the Government to accede to nurses' pay demands, it would not be fair to patients or other health workers.

Enough is enough. I am a nurse and there is a lifetime of nursing in this country where we arrive an hour early at work to get parking, we leave an hour late a lot of the time, we take miniscule breaks that are probably an average of four hours per week per nurse free to the HSE and the Government.

The strike will begin at 8am on Wednesday and will end at 8am on Thursday, meaning many services will be cancelled.

HSE spending on agency nurses increased by almost 20% in the first nine months of the year compared to the same timeframe in 2017.

The Psychiatric Nurses Association will begin balloting its members today for industrial action up to and including strike.

Nursing unions are claiming that agencies are paying nurses and midwives 20% above the public sector rate for the same work.

There are four nursing jobs available for every qualified nurse in this country.

Delays in the recruitment of new nurses will cause more overcrowding in emergency departments this winter, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) has warned.

The work of a palliative care centre nurse is often emotionally demanding and can affect their livelihoods.

An audit of nursing staff will be carried out at every hospital ward around the country, in a new plan announced by the Health Minister.

Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin are in the world’s top 50 for nursing and other subjects but other universities have mixed fortunes in the latest discipline-specific rankings.

More than 600 nurses are to be recruited from the Philippines in an attempt to plug Northern Ireland's chronic nursing shortage.

A education programme for advanced nursing practise led by University College Cork will play a leading role in transforming the country’s health services.

Nurses have expressed serious patient safety concerns ahead of next week’s move to the new emergency department at University Hospital Limerick.

Less than 10% of general nurses are males. Jonathan deBurca Butler asks why.

The ratio of nursing jobs in Ireland to nurses looking for them is four to one, an indication of the challenges faced by HSE that is trying to fill these crucial roles.

Young people are thinking twice about nursing as a profession - and nursing unions are warning that the health service will suffer as a result.

Poll finds over 75% of fathers are involved in breastfeeding decision.

Irish nurse Berna Breen saw the brutality of gang warfare in Honduras, writes Ellie O’Byrne, when she worked in an A&E department for RTÉ’s new series of ‘Toughest Place To Be’.

Around half the nurses who came here under the HSE's recruitment scheme have already left again, according to the INMO.

Liz Farsaci looks at cases of complaints that have come before the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland in the past year, in which inadequate care and financial abuse of elderly people by nurses were two prominent emerging themes

Ireland is not an attractive country for nurses or midwives to work in, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.

The HSE has paid for far more nurses to train as nurse prescribers than have registered to make themselves available for prescribing responsibilities.

Community nursing is under severe strain, but that is nothing new to Catherine Rotte-Murray, a public health nurse in Co Waterford.

A work-to-rule industrial action at University Maternity Hospital Limerick is being threatened, following the breakdown of talks over staffing levels between management and the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.

The Department of Health has released a statement addressing current delays in the nursing registration process.

A major recruitment drive to entice Irish nurses who are working abroad to come home has seen 320 applications.

An INMO senior executive has warned that the HSE’s new nursing recruitment drive could face problems if a staffing crisis and backlog of applications can’t be cleared.

Long-stay teenagers fall between the cracks in hospitals and it requires imagination and creativity to relieve their boredom, writes Helen O’Callaghan. 

By the 1970s, Irish women made up 12% of Britain’s nurses. One of them was Mary Hazard, and her autobiography recounts her 60 happy years with the NHS, says Sharon Ni Chonchúir.

Nursing staff are refusing to move into CUH’s new acute mental health unit as its agenda is being driven by politics and economics, not patient need, writes Des McSweeney