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 an...

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

Find the Congress trailer for Bologna 2025 here

25 Year of 'working together and achieving more' in EfCCNa! Learn more about the early times of the federation and the current hot topics in Critical Care Nursing in Europe. For registration please click here

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Critical Care Nurses in Europe feel very much invited to contribute with your abstract to the success of the 10th EfCCNa Congress to be held in Bologna in March 2025. Follow the link to the submission page and click here

EfCCNa Strategy until 2030 defines the federation’s direction and provides a framework for strategic thinking. It relies on all EfCCNa members (Board, Council representatives and member associations) to ensure its success. Seven Mission Statements are defined. Goals and objectives are written following each mission statement in order to explain ...

The first EfCCNa newsletter is now available on the website. Go to 'News' -> 'Newsletters' and find the latest information about the federation and the activities of their member organisations.

Physiotherapy Provision and Practice: An EuropeAn Intensive CarE Unit (ICU) Survey (PEAiCE).   The purpose of this research is to investigate current provision  and practice of physiotherapy within Intensive care units in European countries. The research project is being conducted by Dr Agnieszka Lewko (Coventry University), Dr Da...

Good News for Critical Care Nurses in Europe: a new participating hospital in Germany - the University Hospital Tübingen - joined the club. Go to the Exchange Programe for more information

My name is Matej Mažič, I work at the Department of Perioperative Intensive Care Medicine. I have 22 years of experience working with the critically ill and I love this job very much. I am an ERC instructor on Advanced life support courses. European pediatric life support courses, ITLS instructor on ITLS advanced courses and pediatric courses, a...

Hello, I am Ziga Vrhovnik, husband, father of two, working in University Clinical Center in Ljubljana, Slovenia. I am a registered nurse in ICU, for a short time I also worked as perfusionist in the cardio-vascular surgery department. As a team member of our department I work with critically ill mechanical ventilated patients. I have experience ...

The Portuguese Society of Critical Care Nurses (SPEDC) is a scientific, non-profit association, made up of Nurses, whose area of interest and/or professional activity is one of the following: Pre-hospital Emergency, Urgency and Intensive Care. SPEDC's purpose is research, training and management in the area of health, more precisely in the field...

During the EfCCNa Council meeting in Tallinn, Estonia, the Latvian Association of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Nurses applied for a membership in EfCCNa. Linda Fridenberga together with her colleague Olga Cerela presented some interesting information about Critical Care nursing in Latvia and especially about their society. At present, ther...

The EfCCNa position statement on Sustainability in ICU is now published: Towards sustainable intensive care.  Find the document 'Towards sustainable Intensive Care' Towards sustainable intenisve care