Sinéad Morrissey, BNurs (Hons), RGN

Director

Sinéad has over 20 years of nursing expertise in care of the older person and has an already proven track record of providing strong leadership and change management services and directing service provision in line with professional, legal and corporate responsibilities.

Prior to establishing her consultancy business, Sinéad worked as the Practice Development Facilitator for Nursing Homes Ireland, the national representative organisation for the private and voluntary nursing home sector. For over 11 years she provided the clinical and regulatory voice of the organisation and represented over 380 member nursing homes at various Expert Advisory, Steering, Focus and Standards development groups for the Department of Health, HIQA, HSE and other key stakeholders. She has contributed to and developed multiple guidance documents and has assisted individual Registered Providers with all aspects of regulation and compliance, including reviewing draft inspection reports, utilising appeal’s mechanisms and responding to enforcement action. She also supported Directors of Nursing on a daily basis with all professional practice and compliance queries and assisted in driving the agenda of the NHI National Nursing Committee. Sinéad is well known within the sector as diligent, accessible, supportive and extremely knowledgeable in all aspects of nursing home care.

Having worked as a District Nursing Team Leader/ Manager within Manchester for over 8 years Sinéad also understands the complexity of delivering community based care and therefore is primed to assist home care providers to prepare for impending registration and regulation by the Health Information and Quality Authority.

Sinéad holds a Bachelor of Nursing (Hons) degree and was recently Adjunct Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin on the BEING ME project, an Erasmus+ funded project.