Cathy Clarke
Cathy Clarke is a Registered Advanced Nurse Practitioner at Ireland's Health Service Executive, based in Dundalk, County Louth, and a guest on Leading with Hearts and Minds discussing Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital's Pathway to Excellence accreditation.
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Aug 31, 2026
Marie KilduffHOST
Cathy Clark, a registered advanced nurse practitioner who chairs the hospital's nurse specialist council, remembers the moment Adrian Cleary planted the seed.
Cathy ClarkeGUEST
I chaired the Advanced Nurse Practitioner and Clinical Nurse Specialist, so we called it the Nurse Specialist Council.
Cathy ClarkeGUEST
Prior to that, we just launched a forum for education within the hospital called the Nursing Grand Rounds, where we wanted to have a shared space for nursing, just like in medicine, that we had Grand Rounds.
Cathy ClarkeGUEST
And we had literally just started that when the idea of Magnet as it was at the beginning to Pathway was sort of starting to reach our ears I suppose.
Cathy ClarkeGUEST
The Grand Rounds had just started and it was a very natural sort of organic lead into what became very quickly the Nurse Specialist Council.
Cathy ClarkeGUEST
I'd heard of Magnet for Europe because I worked in Australia and I worked in a Magnet for Europe hospital there so I had some awareness of what the process involved.
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Marie KilduffHOST
When Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital received the news that they had been accredited the second hospital in Ireland to achieve Pathway to Excellence, the team gathered in a room with a live feed waiting for the outcome.