Nurse Practice Development Unit (NPDU)
1998 saw the introduction of the NPDU in the former South Western & East Coast Mental Health Areas in tandem with the development of the Diploma in Psychiatric Nursing programme. The NPDU was aligned directly with the Faculty of Nursing Trinity College Dublin rather than aligned directly with individual mental health services.
The NPDU was initially based in the nurse home at St Loman’s Hospital Dublin with responsibility for practice development in the entire South Western and East Coast Mental Health Services. In February 2004 the NPDU moved to a HSE building at Nangor Rd D12.
Nurse practice team
- Martina Mc Guinness Nurse Practice Development Co-ordinator.
- Clinical Placement Co-ordinators:
- Jenny Fahey
- Sheila Foley
- Breda Whitehead
- Student Allocation Officer:
- Bernie Kelly
- Clinical Facilator Severe and Enduring Mental illness Course:
- Sinead Frain
- Administrative Support:
- June Finnegan
- Mental Health Tribunal
- Psychiatry of Later Life: HSE Dublin West/South West Mental Health Nursing Service
- Headway Ireland
- Mental Health Support Directory 2005
- Recovery Inc.
- Alzheimer Society of Ireland
- Bodywhys
- Grow Community Mental Health Movement
- Schizophrenia Ireland – Lucia Foundation (SI)
- Oanda – Out and About Association
- Mental Health Ireland
- Samaritans
- Aware
- Alliance for Mental Health
- Mental Health Resources
- HSE Dublin West/South West Practice Development Unit Role
- HSE Dublin West/South West Practice Development Unit Vision
- HSE Dublin West/South West Practice Development Unit Strategy
- Post Graduate Diploma in Specialist Nursing: Severe and Enduring Mental Illness.(SEMI)
- HSE Dublin West/South West Practice Development Unit Contact Details
- HSE Dublin West/South West Practice Development Unit References
- Mental Health Nursing Services - Health Service Executive Dublin Mid Leinster
- Advances in Psychiatry
- Mental Health Commission
