Critical Care Nurses mark your calendar: due to the COVID-19 pandemic the 9th EfCCNa Congress has been postponed from March 2021 to September 22 - 25, 2021.

We invite you to join this international nursing conference with a focus on enhancing the care of patients, their families and staff in critical care through teaching and sharing best evidence-based practice.

The Congress will be held in the Supernova / Media Plaza areas of the Jaarbeurs Utrecht, one of the most modern and innovative conference centres in Europe, situated in the charming city of Utrecht.

We hope to see you in September 2021!     For information go to  EfCCNa Congress

Dejan Dobersek represented the Slovenian Society Nurses and Medical Technicians for Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Transfusiology in EfCCNa for quite a long time. 
Recently he was activly involved in the organisation of the 8th EfCCNa Congress, held in Ljubljana in February 2019. We thank him very much for his commitment, it was always a pleasure to work with him. Best wishes for his future life from the EfCCNa family. His successor will be Anton Justin.

The Italian Critical Care Nurses represented by #Aniarti are working hard at the moment. We believe that it is important to share our first impressions and experiences on what we learned in the first days of the COVID-19 epidemic.

There is a change in the representation of the Finnish Critical Care Nursing organisation within the EfCCNa council. Kaisa Jacobsson is leaving her post as Council member due to her professional development and handed over to her colleague Maarit Lönn.

Maarit is an ICU nurse from middle of Finland, Kuopio. Kuopio has about 120 000 inhabitants on the shore of Kallavesi, big lake, in northern Savo. The hospital is one in five Finland’s University Hospitals. Working in ICU has been so interesting and challenging that after 30 years she is still working at the same unit. Maarit likes hard working and variable job responsibilities. She describes herself  as a social, accessible and responsible person and has maintained her motivation studying, applying for various trainings and working in different units. In her work she wants to develop nursing practice and wants to stay open-minded for changes.
She started working in Kuopio University Hospital Intensive Care Unit soon after Nursing school, 1988. She has studied for a medical-surgical nursing 1994-1996, worked in UK in the ICU of Cromwell Hospital for 6 months in 1997. Additionally she worked in the Emergency department for a year, and has participated in different projects in intensive care nursing.
The last big project was participating as a writer and as an editor in Intensive Care and High Dependency Nursing Guide. The first edition came out in 2010 and second edition 2017. That was a very educational and interesting project.

November 18, 2019

PUBLISH YOUR PAPER WITH CONNECT: The Official WFCCN Journal!
CONNECT Platform is now live at SPRINGER PUBLISHING! 

We are reaching out to you calling for high quality submissions. 
Please submit your research, review, case study, reflection, practice development or important news item with CONNECT.
Publication in CONNECT is free of charge.  CONNECT is indexed in CINAHL, EBSCO and BNI, and your continuing support will
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The editorial team ensures a timely and rigorous review and a supportive publishing process to enable all critical care nurses the
opportunity to publish important data, regardless of whether they are novice or expert authors.

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Thank you in advance for your contributions to CONNECT!
Looking forward to receiving your contributions!

Elizabeth (Elisavet) Papathanassoglou, PhD, MSc, RN
Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta

Scientific Director, Neurosciences, Rehabilitation & Vision Strategic Clinical Network, Alberta Health Services
Co-editor CONNECT: The World of Critical Care Nursing
University of Alberta, Faculty of Nursing
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