Eithne Ni Dhomhnaill, RGN; MSc. Director, Nursing Matters & Associates.
Nursing Matters was established in August 2001 by Eithne Ni Dhomhnaill as a training and consultancy service to nurses and healthcare organisations. Eithne’s nursing career has spanned clinical practice, education and management. She has a particular interest in care of older persons and played a key role in the establishment of one of the first Nursing Development Units in Ireland during the 1990’s. Eithne has been designing and facilitating workshops for the Irish Nurses’ Organisation for the last seven years and is a part-time lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at TCD. Eithne has also managed a number of high profile projects including the multi-site staffing levels project in the South Western Area Health Board; the publication of guidelines for the setting up and operation of childcare facilities in the health service; design of the ‘PG diploma in specialist nursing – promoting enablement in persons with a physical disability at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, TCD.
Eithne is currently the consultant to the ‘Nursing Homes Nursing Projects’ standards group involving over 110 nursing homes in Dublin and surrounding areas and was a member of the HIQA subgroup for the National Minimum Standards for Residential Care.
Ann O’Driscoll RGN,SCM, BCL
Ann O’ Driscoll is a solicitor with 16 years experience in medical defence litigation and healthcare risk management. She was formerly a nurse and midwife.
Ann is a partner in Mason, Hayes and Curran Solicitors, Dublin where she specializes in defending medical malpractice claims and advising healthcare organizations on clinical risk and medico-legal matters. Before joining Mason, Hayes and Curran, she headed up the Medico-legal and Risk management department at Hayes McGrath, Solicitors. Prior to that, she worked for 7 years with St. Paul Ireland Insurance as the senior medico-legal advisor to the St. Paul insured State Medical Indemnity Scheme which insured approximately 4,000 non-consultant hospital doctors. Ann headed up a team of solicitors who advised and assisted healthcare professionals.
Mary Kelly, RN, RM. MBA, H.Dip. Healthcare Risk Management, Health Care Risk Consultancy
Mary has a wealth of clinical and managerial nursing experience that spans the UK, USA, Canada and Ireland in a variety of settings and specialities including Intensive Care, Coronary Care, Renal, Cardio-thoracic, Care of the Elderly, Paediatric, and Oncology.
She was the former Director of Nursing for 14 years at the City of Dublin Skin & Cancer Hospital, where she implemented their Risk Management and Health and Safety Strategies. Mary also held the post of Assistant Director of Nursing at both the Royal Hospital, Donnybrook and St. Luke’s Hospital, Rathgar. Having completed a Master’s degree at UCD Dublin, her career pathway led her to her present career as a self employed trainer and healthcare risk consultant. Mary has had involvement in the recent national hygiene and accident and emergency audits as well as a number of risk management audits in a variety of nursing home settings. Mary is currently on the steering committee of the Irish Healthcare Risk Management Association (IHRMA).
Dominic Mark Wilkinson B.L., B.A. (Hons), FCIArb, FCIPD, MIITD
Dominic is a Barrister and an experienced Human Resources Professional. During his career he has worked with a variety of organisations in the public and private sector in both Ireland and the UK . The types of organisations include blue chip multinationals, global and indigenous financial services, service industry, public hospitals and public services.
Memberships :
Member – The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Chartered Fellow – Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
Member – Irish Institute of Training and Development IITD Member – Irish Association of Industrial Relations
Tom Duffy, Director.
Tom joined Nursing Matters in November 2005 as business manager. Tom’s career began in sales and has spanned various levels of sales, marketing and management over a twenty year period. His previous role was as a member of the management board of a multi national company. Tom has a particular interest in management training, particularly team building and team working and is a registered Fas trainer.
