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NEC NEWS
Job Opportunity
Membership Officer: 7.5 hours per week. This will be a paid role with the candidate being employed directly by IGPNEA. This is an exciting opportunity for someone with the drive and eagerness to participate in and contribute to the growth of our organisation. Please spread the word, or if interested please send your CV to admin@ irishpracticenurses.ie You can find more details on our website.
Website And Social Media Officer
At the time of going to press we have offered a contract for the Website and Social Media Officer role. We will provide you with details and an update as soon as we have everything finalised.
Membership
A warm welcome to our new members, we now have over 950 members; our highest ever membership.
Siilo
Over 50 per cent of members are now using Siilo for secure messaging and news alerts. All members are asked to download the Siilo app today. Siilo works like WhatsApp, but specific for our needs. With security and privacy ensured, it a great way to communicate with your branches, find out what is happening within IGPNEA, and get news alerts such as Covid-19 vaccine bulletins.
To get Siilo on your phone
1. Go to the Play store or Apple store on your phone.
2. Download Siilo – Medical
3. Open the app and follow the steps on your phone once downloaded.
4. You can choose to import your phone’s contacts or not (your choice).
5. As an IGPNEA member, you are automatically verified for our network.
6. To access the full Siilo network (ie, people outside IGPNEA), you must verify your account with passport and ID. If you choose not to verify your account you can still access IGPNEA news, etc, and communicate with other members.
7. Enter your NMBI number (this may say IMC number).
8.You will then be added to your branch group on Siilo.
Igpnea Webinars
We hope you are enjoying the IGPNEA webinars in partnership with www.medcafe. ie. The monthly webinars have been a great success and feedback from members has been very positive. Our most recent webinar on June 29 ‘Not my monkey – Transactional analysis and knowing yourself’ with guest speaker Nurse Patricia McQuillan, Professional Development Co-ordinator for Practice
Nurses in the South East (CHO 5), provided great insight and understanding about the impact of people and events on our lives, an understanding of what triggers certain personal behaviours, and knowing how to respond rather than react to certain behaviours.
The webinar on ‘CDM – Heart failure', which was due to take place on July 13 with guest speaker Norma Caples, has been postponed until later in the year. However, we are pleased to be hosting a webinar on July 27 with guest speaker, GP and pharmacist Dr Paul Ryan, on the topic of polypharmacy. So save the date, for what promises to be another very interesting talk. That webinar will be our last for the summer season. We will take a break for August and be back with more webinars in the autumn. Recordings of our webinars are available for members on our website and at www.medcafe.ie
Educational Hub
More areas are now live on the Hub: Mental health, men’s health, respiratory, and cardiovascular are the most recent additions. The Hub is the quick find resource centre on the IGPNEA website for our educational materials. Sixteen out of the 20 areas are now active on the Hub and resources continue to grow as more content is added regularly. Each Hub has a variety of learning resources, e-learning courses, links to webinars and IGPNEAproduced educational material, including video presentations and articles.
Volunteer Panel
Many thanks to those of you who responded to our call for volunteers; we really appreciate your willingness to get involved and are delighted with the uptake. The role of volunteer liaison person is still open, the panel will remain open for this role and any future opportunities as they arise so please contact Mary via email (admin@irishpracticenurses.ie) at any stage if interested. We’d love to hear from you.
Reminder To Save The Date For Agm 2021 And Conference 2022
The AGM this year will be held on Saturday, 16 October 2021 and it will be a virtual format similar to last year. We are delighted that the Waterford Branch will be hosting our next conference on Friday, 13 and Saturday, 14 May 2022 in the Tower Hotel in Waterford. Put the dates in your diary. We’re looking forward to an interesting programme and of course the chance to meet up at the conference.
Changes To Articles Of Association
Thank you to all the Branch Representatives and our members who took time out of their busy schedules to attend our virtual EGM on June 10, where the following motions were passed: Motion 1: Articles 6.1 (+ 9.1, 9.2, 9.3) – New centralised bank account for branches. Motion 2: Article 14.4.1 – Adding in the option of a virtual AGM if circumstances don't allow a physical AGM. Motion 3: Article 17.2 –Inclusion of an EGM.
We are working on the necessary processes to make the changes to the Articles of Association and have them approved by the Charities Regulator before they can be fully implemented within the IGPNEA procedures.
THE PEOPLE'S VACCINE ALLIANCE IRELAND
We are very pleased to be supporting Oxfam Ireland's new campaign: The People's Vaccine Alliance Ireland. The fairest and most effective way to end this pandemic is to ensure that everyone, everywhere has access to Covid-19 vaccines, tests and treatments. Oxfam's new campaign is aiming to achieve this.
Summer Closure
IGPNEA will be closed for two weeks to allow for staff annual leave from July 12 to 27. During that time if there is anything very urgent please email chair@ irishpracticenurses.ie
Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter @PracticeNurses . We now have over 1,650 followers.
Corrections From The Last Issue Of Nigp
1.There was a misprint in one line in last edition’s article: The Menopause: An overview. The line should read- “The average duration of hot flushes occurring in women is 5.2 [NOT 52] years, however, symptoms of lesser intensity may be present for longer.”
2. In the NEC news piece about the 2022 IPGNEA conference, it should have said Tower Hotel in Waterford as the venue for the conference in May 2022, not Talbot Hotel. Apologies.
