Remediation courses for Nurses and Midwives facing an NMBI complaint, fitness to practise inquiry or allegation of professional misconduct

Start with the Core Set above. Those nine cover the standards you are measured against, in Ethics and Ethical Standards for Nurses and Midwives and Professionalism and Professional Standards for Nurses and Midwives, both written to the 2025 Code, and the four things a remediation response has to show, set out under What the NMBI is actually assessing. Then add the courses that match the concern in your letter, and speak to your adviser before you respond.

Three bodies, in order. The Preliminary Proceedings Committee investigates every complaint and decides whether to refer it to the Fitness to Practise Committee for a sworn oral inquiry, close it, refer it elsewhere or suggest mediation. The Fitness to Practise Committee hears the inquiry and reports to the Board. The Board decides the sanction, and since 1 August 2021 the High Court must confirm any sanction heavier than advice, admonishment or censure.

This page does not describe interim measures, because the NMBI complaint pages it relies on do not set them out. If your letter mentions an application to the High Court, a request for an undertaking or any limit on your practice while the complaint is investigated, ask the NMBI what it means in your case and contact your indemnifier, your union or professional body, or a solicitor the same day.

Yes to the certificate. Healthcare Ethics Courses issues a dated certificate for every course, recording 2 CPD hours, the course title and the date of completion, which makes it usable as evidence in a response to the PPC or a remediation plan. On the hours: the NMBI’s Professional Competence Scheme guideline is published in draft with its start date to be decided, so we make no claim that they count under it.

Access runs for twelve months from the date of purchase. You start immediately and work at your own pace, with no schedule to keep. Finishing a course does not end your access: after you complete it and download your certificate you can return to the material whenever you wish for the rest of the twelve months, at no further cost.

No. The certificate records the date you completed the course, and that date does not change; revisiting the material does not produce a newly dated one. If the NMBI, the Fitness to Practise Committee or an employer asks for recent evidence, you buy the course again. Within twelve months of your original purchase a repeat is half price; after that it is the full €100.

No. No course, from us or anyone else, determines the outcome of an NMBI complaint, a PPC investigation, a Fitness to Practise Committee inquiry or a Board decision on sanction, and any provider suggesting otherwise should be treated with caution. A course can help you build the insight and reflection your response needs, and give you a dated, verifiable certificate to evidence it.

Show the four things set out under What the NMBI is actually assessing, in order, ending with meaningful change you can evidence with a date. The NMBI’s Guidance on Sanctions (2018) says insight may be a relevant consideration on sanction, and lists early admission, remedial action and an apology as mitigating factors. Your written reflection evidences the insight; a dated certificate attached to it evidences the remedial action.

Yes. There is no registration check and no requirement to hold an unrestricted registration. The NMBI’s Guidance on Sanctions says conditions may require a nurse or midwife to undertake a specific course, and our Ethics, Professionalism and Professional Boundaries courses each issue a dated certificate. Whether a course satisfies a particular condition is for the body that set it: read the wording with your adviser before you enrol.

The Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics in effect from 14 February 2025. It tells a nurse or midwife not to use their professional position to form a relationship of a sexual, emotional or exploitative nature, and requires colleagues to be treated with respect. Maintaining the boundary is the registrant’s responsibility, and a dual relationship with a patient or a colleague is a boundaries matter. Speak to your adviser before contacting anyone involved.

It is a ground of complaint: a relevant medical disability is listed in section 55 of the Nurses and Midwives Act 2011, and the NMBI’s 2024 figures list it as a category of alleged conduct. The complaint pages we rely on set out no separate health procedure. Your response can still show how the condition affected your practice and what you have put in place since.

Yes. A nurse or midwife who qualified elsewhere can be responding to a complaint and learning an unfamiliar system at the same time: a Preliminary Proceedings Committee, a sworn oral inquiry heard to the criminal standard of proof, undertakings and consents that need the Board’s agreement, and sanctions the High Court confirms. The courses are written to the NMBI’s Code and explain the process in Irish terms.

Yes. Courses are taken privately online. We never share participant details with the NMBI, the Preliminary Proceedings Committee, the Fitness to Practise Committee, an employer, a union or an indemnifier unless you choose to do so yourself. The certificate is issued to you, and you decide whether and when to include it in a response, a submission or a remediation plan.