Welcome Roberta Decaro from Bologna, new Aniarti representative in the Council of EfCCNa, who took over from Tiziana Marano. Roberta is a Critical Care Nurse with a Master's degree, working in IC. She is passionate about advancing evidence based nursing and improving quality and safety in Critical Care settings. She has already got some EfCCNa ex…

FARE WELL and a big THANK YOU to the leaving EfCCNa Board members Elin Steffenak and Colette Ram, who's terms have ended now. Elin from Norway served as a board member and chair of the Congress organising group for several years. Under her lead the last three EfCCNa Congress 2019, 2022 and 2025 had been successfully performed. She is a real…

Welcome to the new EfCCNa board member - Mario Pytel Mario, representative from the Czech Republic, joined EfCCNa in 2023 and during the London meeting he was elected as Board member with special focus on Congress organsiation. He is working in the ICU at the University hospital in Brno as a critical care specialist, and besides this he se…

EfCCNa Board Elections 2025 - welcome newly elected President Zaneta Bogoevska-Miteva Zaneta, representative from the Republic of North Macedonia, joined EfCCNa in 2014. She is working as a critical care nurse for more than 20 years in IC and in Anaesthesia in the Zan Mitrev Clinic in Skopje. 2023 she became a member of the EfCCNa board wit…

And the winner is: Sara Eklind MSc, CNN Sara works as an Intensive care nurse in Sweden. She is in charge of the post-ICU follow up clinic and has a special interest in ICU diaries. EfCCNa rewarded her for her work on: The transition of the ICU diary – aspects of digitalization Congratulation!  

From May 12 to 16, I had the opportunity to take part in a short-term exchange stay as a nurse at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm – one of the most advanced medical facilities in Europe. This experience has significantly enriched both my professional and personal life. For the full report from Rebeka go to the Exchange Programme site

The latest EfCCNa Newsletter is online. Go to EfCCNa news or click here 

Dear all, We invite all intensive care practitioners to participate in a Delphi survey to identify barriers and facilitators to successful implementation of cost-effective interventions in intensive care setting. Your opinion is valuable to guide this research. Purpose of the study: Over the last two decades, the compliance to evi…

At the Bologna Congress the EfCCNa Fellowship Awards 2025 were proudly presented to Anne Kokko from Finland and Drago Satosek from Slovenia. Anne is awarded for her outstanding collaboration and contribution to the development of EfCCNa in her positions as Treasurer and Vice-president. Drago is awarded for his longlasting dedication to EfCCNa, e…

For your information: the abstracts from the 10th EfCCNa Congress, which was successfully held last week in Bologna are now available. Click here for the abstract booklet

10th EfCCNa CONGRESS BOLOGNA The EfCCNa Critical Care Doctoral European Nursing group (CC-DEN), which brings together nurses across Europe engaged in critical care research, is going to meet on March 13, 2025 during the Congress in Bologna. Interested registered Congress delegates are invited to join and to register for the CC-DEN meeting h…

Still 3 weeks to go to benefit from the early bird fee. Keep in mind that the deadline for the early registration fee ends January 31. One click here to the Congress site 

Happy to announce the launch of the INDICATE project where EfCCNa as project partner participates. On Monday December 2 2024, INDICATE has been officially launched, a pioneering European initiative designed to enhance data access and sharing between intensive care units across Europe. INDICATE aims to advance patient-centered care and…

Find the latest news from EfCCNa in the newsletter from November 2024 by clicking here 

The registration for early fee for the 10th EfCCNa Congress, which takes place on March 12-15 2025 in Bologna, Italy is open from 15 November 2024 to 31 January 2025. Click here to go to the registration side

On its birthday on October 2nd EfCCNa offered a free Webinar to all its members and interested Critical Care collegues in Europe. The webinar highlighted hot topics of 25 years of Critical Care Nursing in Europe - from 1999, the year of the foundation of the federation to 2024. Click here to see the record of the webinar