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Welcome to the Department of Nursing

The Minister for Health & Children, Mary Harney TD, has dedicated the €20m WIT nurse education building to ‘Ireland’s Florence Nightingale’ Mary O'Connell Bianconi. Below are two downloadable versions of her Biography (Photograph by Lafayette Photography, 1962).

Mary O'Connell Bianconi's Biography - Brief Overview
(Adobe PDF - 80KB)
Mary O'Connell Bianconi's Biography - Full Dedication
(Adobe PDF - 155KB)

Pre-registration Nursing courses

Post-registration Nursing courses

  • BSc (Hons) in Nursing Studies (Part-time)
  • Postgraduate Diploma/Masters:
    • High Dependency Nursing (part-time course)
    • Rehabilitation and Habilitation Nursing (part-time course)
    • Medical Surgical Nursing (part-time course)
    • Maternal and Child Health Nursing (part-time course)
    • Community Health Nursing (part-time course)
    • Mental Health Nursing (part-time course)
    • Disability Nursing (part-time course) 

Other Courses

  • CPR Training (to be announced)

About the Department

Head of Department: John Wells, BA, MSc, PhD, RPN, RNT, PGCE

Secretary: Breda Walsh
email: bawalsh@wit.ie
phone: + 353 51 845567