Are you empathetic and reliable, a team player with good communication
skills and an analytical, problem-solving mind? If so…
…Nursing or Midwifery is your ideal career
Choosing nursing or midwifery as a career opens up a world of job opportunities that will sustain you throughout your working life.
You will become a professional clinician capable of integrating scientific and technical knowledge with the art of caring.
You will never stop learning about health, about illness, about people and the world we live in. Nurses continually engage in ongoing professional education and UCD provides a wide range of postgraduate opportunities to suit your personal and professional needs throughout your career.
Once qualified as a nurse or midwife you can choose from a broad range of graduate programmes to build your own career pathway that reflects your own interests and talents.
Whatever your focus (e.g. cancer care, palliative care diabetes, emergency, critical care research or education). Wherever you choose to work the career opportunities are endless.
Many qualified nurses and midwives work in hospitals. However they can also work in a variety of settings, including community setting, e.g. as a public health nurse, mental health services, management and leadership, policy-making, teaching and research. You will rarely have two days that are the same, nursing and midwifery are dynamic professions and offer an enormous variety of challenges.
Why choose nursing or midwifery at UCD?
Development in health care are transforming the roles of nurses and midwives leading to new and exciting career opportunities are innovative degree programmes are taught by experienced lectures in a friendly and supportive environment.
You will be guided by academics who are experts in their field, and you will gain clinical experience at our renowned clinical partner hospitals.
Each student is allocated a personal tutor from day one on your programme to provide advice and guidance. We have links with international partner schools and this allows students to choose international placements as part of their studies.
By choosing to study with us you become part of a greater community of people working together to shape the future of nursing and midwifery in Ireland and abroad.
