Nursing Department
The Department is led by the Director of Nursing, Ms Pauline Newnham and endeavours to provide efficient and effective quality nursing care to patients/residents and their families in line with the ethos and mission statement of the Hospice.
We embrace continuous quality improvement and the management of change, necessary to achieve our organisational objectives. The Department of Nursing is responsible for developing policy/guidelines in accordance with best practice in partnership with our multidisciplinary colleagues.
Our service is patient focused with an emphasis on providing a clean environment of care, ensuring best practice in infection control and improving clinical care standards and treating patients/residents with dignity and respect.
We seek to empower our nurses to lead innovate and develop change where this will improve the quality, timeliness and safety of patient care.
Regular surveillance of problem organisms and health care associated infections are communicated to health care staff and management.
Tel: 01-4068824. Bleep 825
Email: pnewnham@olh.ie
Christina Doyle, Assistant Director of Nursing
Tel: 01-4068700. Bleep: 308
Email: cdoyle@olh.ie
Noreen Holland, Assistant Director of Nursing
Tel: 01-4068833. Bleep 833
Email: nholland@olh.ie
Linda Kearns, Assistant Director of Nursing
Tel: 01-4068826. Bleep 826
Email: lkearns@olh.ie
Sheila Cleary, Secretary to Department of Nursing
Tel: 01-4068824
Email: scleary@olh.ie
Maria Ward, Secretary to Older People's Services
Tel: 01-4068824
Email: mward@olh.ie
We embrace continuous quality improvement and the management of change, necessary to achieve our organisational objectives. The Department of Nursing is responsible for developing policy/guidelines in accordance with best practice in partnership with our multidisciplinary colleagues.
Our service is patient focused with an emphasis on providing a clean environment of care, ensuring best practice in infection control and improving clinical care standards and treating patients/residents with dignity and respect.
Nursing Practice
The department aims to enhance and develop nursing practices with the aim of providing a quality service. We promote/facilitate optimum learning environments for all our nurses recognising the increasing specialisation and complexity of the chronic disease model.We seek to empower our nurses to lead innovate and develop change where this will improve the quality, timeliness and safety of patient care.
Infection Control
An effective Infection Prevention and Control Strategy is at the forefront of our day to day service delivery led by our Infection Control Clinical Nurse Specialist/Department of Nursing. We are continuously developing programmes designed to educate and update staff, volunteers, patients/residents, their families and visitors about infection control issues.Regular surveillance of problem organisms and health care associated infections are communicated to health care staff and management.
Contact details
Pauline Newnham, Director of NursingTel: 01-4068824. Bleep 825
Email: pnewnham@olh.ie
Christina Doyle, Assistant Director of Nursing
Tel: 01-4068700. Bleep: 308
Email: cdoyle@olh.ie
Noreen Holland, Assistant Director of Nursing
Tel: 01-4068833. Bleep 833
Email: nholland@olh.ie
Linda Kearns, Assistant Director of Nursing
Tel: 01-4068826. Bleep 826
Email: lkearns@olh.ie
Sheila Cleary, Secretary to Department of Nursing
Tel: 01-4068824
Email: scleary@olh.ie
Maria Ward, Secretary to Older People's Services
Tel: 01-4068824
Email: mward@olh.ie
