More than 30,000 people have responded to a massive recruitment drive across Ireland’s health service to tackle Covid-19.

A nurse has had his registration here suspended for a year for professional misconduct while working at an Australian hospital, including sending a patient an MMS message containing a private and/or naked image on his mobile phone.

A nurse who used an intellectually disabled woman's ATM card to make unauthorised withdrawals totalling some €2,520 for her own use has been struck off the nursing register.

A nurse midwife has had her registration cancelled by the High Court over concerns about her ability to practice safely due to a history of psychosis.

An Irish nurse whose work in a UK nursing home was described as “excellent” has been struck off the register of nurses here by the High Court arising from findings of professional misconduct.

Publishing details of every nurse sanctioned by their regulatory body could lead some to take their own lives or consider doing so, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO).

Midwife Philomena Canning has been battling the HSE in court for years. Now, after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, she says her fight is over, writes Michael Clifford

Nurses and midwives who are subject to fitness-to-practise hearings are suffering stress, anxiety, and in extreme cases suicidal ideation and are in need of support, a union has warned.

A mental health nurse who shared the confidential medical notes of a psychiatric patient with her boss over a dispute with another nurse was yesterday the subject of a disciplinary hearing.

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

Sabina Higgins remarks in Trinity are not the only ones made by the first couple on the thorny issue of abortion, writes Alison O’Connor.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation says it believes the statutory body responsible for regulating the profession brings some cases against nurses when there is little or no evidence to back the allegations against them.

Hundreds of nursing homes will today demand that Health Minister Leo Varadkar take control of the nurse registration crisis.

With a backlog of more than 2,300 nurses awaiting registration, nursing home operators have called on the health minister to put the crisis top of the agenda at today’s meeting of the Emergency Department (ED) Taskforce.

Complaints against staff involved in the care of Savita Halappanavar are still being investigated by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI) — almost three years after her death at Galway University Hospital.

Midwifery practice standards that put the mother at the centre of decision making have been published by the nursing regulator.

Almost half of the country’s 64,000 nurses and midwives have paid their regulatory authority the full registration fee of €150, it emerged yesterday.

More than a third of the country’s 64,000 nurses and midwives have paid their regulatory authority the full registration fee of €150.

Unions and organisations representing nurses have welcomed the Health Minister's intervention in the registration fee dispute.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation is standing firm on its advice to members about a controversial registration fee.

The row over price hikes in registration fees for nurses has intensified, with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland accusing nursing unions of making confusing and misleading statements.

Up to 2,000 nurses and midwives took to the streets of Dublin yesterday to vent their anger at a 50% hike in registration fees.

A campaign to reverse the €50 hike in registration fees for nurses and midwives led to several protests around the country yesterday, including at the gates of Cork University Hospital.

A nurse who taped a patient’s mouth would not be an ongoing risk to patients in future, a psychiatrist told a disciplinary hearing yesterday.

A nurse who put surgical tape over a severely brain damaged patient admitted yesterday that his action amounted to professional misconduct.

THE rush-through of the Finance Bill ahead of the expected dissolution of the 30th Dáil today means a number of already-published laws might never make it into the statute books.