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Critical Care Doctoral European Nurses (CCDEN) Group Meeting in Utrecht

Dear Colleague

If you hold a PhD or are currently a PhD student, we would like to invite you to join the CCDEN meeting during the 2022 EfCCNa congress in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

The Critical Care Doctoral European Nurses group was created in 2015 in Valencia. Our objective is establishing a network of critical care nursing researchers.

Since then, the group has engaged over 40 members from all over Europe. Members either hold a PhD degree or are current doctoral students.

The group also welcomes nurses who have completed other Doctoral programmes in a European country (e.g. DPhil; DNS; Professional Doctorate or similar).

 We plan to form working groups aligned to specific research interests enabling dynamic communication. Potential CC-DEN objectives for consideration:

·        Networking between and among experienced and inexperienced researchers across and within countries

·        Mentorship and access to subject and methods expertise

·        Building research teams

·        Building a profile of PhD examiners Maybe we should state who is a senior researcher and who needs support?

·        Identifying research priorities in critical care nursing

·        Exchange of ideas and ways to overcome research challenges

·        Building specific grant applications (within interest groups)

If you are interested in joining this group, we will be holding a meeting during the EfCCNa conference.

Friday, 2 September 2022 at 11:00-12:30; please refer to the scientific program for details where we will be meeting.

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9th EfCCNa Congress

Good news for Critical Care Nurses in Europe: the early registration fee deadline is prolonged until June 30, 2022.
Register here and safe money: https://www.efccna.org/registration

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All good things come to an end ...



Bronagh Blackwood and Anne Kokko, two highly motivated and inspirational persons have had lasting contribution to the growth, establishment and profile of EfCCNa.
Both started as representatives from their national nursing association and became members of the Board of Officers in many roles. Bronagh was Vice-president of EfCCNa for two terms and President of EfCCNa for two terms till she left the board of officers in 2021.
Anne was treasurer for two terms and Vice-president of EfCCNa for two terms till she left the board of Officers in May 2022.

Dear Bronagh and Anne, thank you so much for your everlasting contribution to EfCCNa and for your valuable services and hard work in promoting EfCCNa and critical care nursing in Europe. It’s been a great pleasure to work with you and we will definitely miss you both.
The EfCCNa family wishes you both all the best for your future and we look forward to seeing you at the upcoming 9th EfCCNa congress 2022 in The Netherlands.

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New EfCCNa Board member - Zaneta Bogoevska-Miteva

Zaneta Bogoevska-Miteva, Board Member
Zaneta has been representing the Republic of Northern Macedonia in the Council since 2016. She is an ICU Nurse, working in the Zan Mitrev Clinic in Skopje and she is active in nursing education and in supporting scientific research amongst critical care nurses. Additionally she has an active role as intra-hospital infection control nurse, is part of IHI team. 

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Karin Klas - new EfCCNa Secretary

Karin Klas, EfCCNa Secretary
Karin Klas from Vienna is the Austrian delegate and member of the EfCCNa board.

She is an expierenced critical care nurse (CCRN, pediatric CCRN) for more than 20 years and also a Nurse educator and Nurse scientist.
Currently she is working as director of Homecare education facility and as a lecturer for critical care and nursing at the University of applied sciences in Klagenfurt, Carinthia.