A Donegal islander has been elected president of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.
She’s Karen McGowan, an advanced nurse practitioner in Beaumont Hospital in Dublin.
McGowan was born and raised on Arranmore and was inspired to become a nurse at the age of six, after seeing the care provided to her father when he was hospitalised.
Trained at DCU, she has stayed at Beaumont throughout her career, now working as an advanced nurse practitioner in the hospital’s emergency department.
She takes over from outgoing INMO President, Martina Harkin-Kelly, also from Donegal.
