The Specialist Nurses in European Healthcare Towards 2030
ESNO Position Statement on Specialised Nursing
Todays landscape of health and Specialist Nurses
Never before has a profession in Europe1 been as important as the evolution of the role of the Specialist Nurses2. In ESNO we define the title ‘Specialist Nurse’ by including the other titles such as Advance Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Practitioner or otherwise referring to nurses with post bachelor or academic education background and nurses highly experienced in a certain health discipline.
Helen started working in the North Estonia Medical Centre in Tallinn 19 years ago as an ICU nurse. Then she became the first acute pain nurse in Estonia and started to develop a nurse based Acute Pain Service in the same hospital. Later she became Chief Nurse of Anaesthesia Centre. 

