Each decade brings with it new developments, new advances, greater medical knowledge, but with it also, new problems, crises, stricter guidelines and tighter purse strings. A welcome support within this flux and flow are section meetings, conferences, education days and social events. Sections facilitate the co-ordination of a national network of peers and colleagues working in the same area and sharing similar interests.
National sections hold meetings at regular intervals throughout the year with the AGM scheduled to take place between January and mid-February each year. Most meetings take place online, as this facilitates the greatest participation from all regions. Such complete regional involvement allows members and the INMO to keep abreast of, and indeed, even first be made aware of, specific regional concerns and issues that might otherwise be overlooked or underestimated.
The website and the World of Irish Nursing & Midwifery (WIN) Magazine host dedicated pages for our Sections. These pages chronicle and review various articles and events and list a diary of upcoming meetings, education days and conferences.
Sections also facilitate access to the policy making structure of the organisation with attendance at the Annual Delegate Conference; by offering the opportunity of sending a delegate and observer to represent their special interest group and by putting forward a motion to debate.