Nursing & Midwifery - Medicinal Product Prescribing

Explore how to enhance the care you provide to patients, clients and service users as you prepare to prescribe medicines within your scope of practice with the RCSI School of Nursing and Midwifery.



Through the use of your prescriptive authority, this professional certificate offers you the opportunity to register with NMBI as a nurse/midwife prescriber on the successful completion of the programme. This RCSI programme is the longest running programme of its kind in Ireland and has prepared more than 1,200 nurses/midwives to date for this expanded role.



The programme is delivered part-time via an active, blended learning approach including self-directed learning and live online classes approximately once every week. Further support is provided through the module lead, programme director and regular online drop-in sessions.



Suitable for

This programme is offered to all nurses and midwives who meet the entry criteria and have the support of their employer and a designated medical mentor irrespective of their clinical grade or area of clinical practice.



Accreditation and recognition

All programmes offered by the School of Nursing and Midwifery are accredited by RCSI, the National University of Ireland and the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland. Recognition by bodies in other jurisdictions must be determined by individual applicants.

• Professional Accountability in Nurse Midwife Prescribing

• Pharmacology and Prescribing Science

• Systematic Assessment and Evaluation in Patient Care

To be eligible for the programme you must:

• Be registered as a nurse or midwife on the Active Register of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI).

• Currently be employed as a nurse or midwife.

• Have a minimum of three years post-registration clinical experience (within the past five years) with at least one year in the area in which prescribing is proposed.

• Have competencies recognised at Level 8 of the NQAI Framework.

• Demonstrate continuous professional development and the ability to study at Level 8.

• Have the support of your employer to undertake programme.

• Have the nomination and confirmation of a designated medical practitioner mentor.



Recognition of prior learning (RPL)

Learning occurs in many contexts, including work, involvement in social and community activities, and learning through life experience generally. Recognition of prior learning (RPL) does not give credit for experience as such, rather it considers learning that was acquired as a result of the experience.



RPL may be used to gain admission to programmes where an applicant may not have obtained the standard entry requirements. This is considered on a case-by-case basis. Exemptions from programme modules that duplicate learning already demonstrably acquired through prior learning may also be considered on a case-by-case basis.



For more information, please contact the School of Nursing and Midwifery:

Tel: +353 1 402 2445

Email: nursing@rcsi.ie



English language requirement exceptions

English language requirements are published at: https://www.rcsi.com/dublin/postgraduate/policies-and-guidelines/english-language-requirements



If you have completed undergraduate/postgraduate full-time studies in the medium of the English language (three or more years cumulatively), or if you are registered with the NMBI, you are exempt from these requirements.

6 months. Mode of delivery Hybrid - Part-time.

Next start date: January 2027.

Progression options

Upon the successful completion of this programme, students can progress to a postgraduate diploma.