Office of the Nursing and Midwifery Servics Director. Health Service Executive2017-09-042017-09-042017-059781908972118http://hdl.handle.net/10147/622531Nurses and midwives provide a significant volume of the care delivered within the healthcare system. Their role and function has developed extensively in order to streamline and safely augment the quality of the patient’s journey. The primary focus of nursing and midwifery roles occurs through increased competency attainment for nurses and midwives, thereby, enhancing their range of clinical skills, capacity and opportunity to improve efficiency of care delivered to patients. The Health Service Executive (HSE) places an important emphasis on quality and patient safety, legislative changes and development of standards of care driven by quality improvement initiatives and risk management. Within this context, the purpose of this initiative to review the “Guiding Framework for Education, Training and Competence Validation in Venepuncture and Peripheral Intravenous Cannulation for Nurses and Midwives” is to foster and develop the capability of staff to improve the quality and safety processes of venepuncture and peripheral intravenous cannulation (PIVC) knowledge and skills in line with evidence based practice. The objective of this guiding framework is to create a standardised culture where quality and safety is the primary goal of all individuals undertaking these skills and that every clinical and social care action is aligned within the review of this Guiding Framework.enNURSINGMIDWIFERYCONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTPROFESSIONAL COMPETENCEReport