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25.08.2006:Connect Critical Care Academy Programme, Autumn Semester 2006
London, Manchester and Cambridge, UK

The Connect Critical Care Academy is delighted to announce the launch of its exciting new programme for the Autumn Semester 2006

The Academy exists to promote the dissemination of critical care knowledge, which is presented by our Faculty of national and international experts in the field.  The Academy is multi-professional and aims to provide opportunities for experienced critical care practitioners to analyse and evaluate contemporary evidence from the nursing, medical, biological, ethical, and social sciences. Each course it offers is unique and designed to encourage participants to reflect upon up-to-date knowledge and trends and their implications for clinical practice. The Autumn Semester course themes have been chosen for their currency, topicality and relevance to critical care practitioners. Themes for this semester include:

• - Nutrition Support in the Critically Ill
• - Organ Failure in Critical Care Setting
• - Advances in Haemodynamic Monitoring and Management
• - Advances in Prevention and Management Of Infections and Sepsis and Septic Shock in Critical Care
• - Assessment and Management of Pain and Effective Sedation in the Critically Ill
• - Advances in Ventilation Management, Tools and Techniques

• Sheila Adam, London,                                George Hartley, Newcastle
• Lynne Williams, North Tees                      Gilbert Parks, Cambridge UK
• Jean-Louis Vincent, Brussels                  Carys Jones, Reading
• Gilbert Parks, Cambridge                          James Watts, Burnley
• Chinari Subudhi, Manchester                   Sally Walters, Cambridge
• Bronagh Blackwood,  Belfast                    Cheryl Crocker, Nottingham
• Ruth Heafield, Chesterfield                       Nick Allcock, Nottingham
• Lynne Harrison, Blackburn                       

The Academy programme is being profiled internationally and so far the response from critical care colleagues has been excellent – so spaces are limited.We invite you to take a look at the courses offered in the Academy’s Autumn Semester programme at www.criticalcareacademy.org together with registration information and an application form.We look forward to welcoming you to the Academy.

Lynne Harrison* and Paul Fulbrook**Connect Critical Care Academy

* Lynne Harrison is Co-Editor of Connect: the World of Critical Care Nursing and Senior Lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire, UK

** Paul Fulbrook is Co-Editor of Connect: the World of Critical Care Nursing, Professor of Nursing at the Australian Catholic University, Brisbane, Australia and Clinical Reader in Critical Care at the Centre for Practice Development at the Institute of Health & Community Studies, Bournemouth University, UK

DECLARACION DE POSICION SOBRE LA PROVISION DE FUERZA DE TRABAJO  DE ENFERMERIA EN CUIDADOS CRITICOS

DECLARACION DE POSICION SOBRE LA PROVISION DE EDUCACION EN ENFERMERIA EN CUIDADOS CRITICOS

POSITION STATEMENT ON THE PROVISION OF CRITICAL CARE NURSING WORKFORCE

INTRODUCTION In May 2003 the World Federation of Critical Care Nurses undertook a review of available national critical care nursing associations' position statements on critical care nursing workforce requirements. The current position statement aims to inform and assist critical care nursing associations, health services, governments and other interested stakeholders in the development and provision of appropriate critical care nursing workforce requirements.

The first draft of this position statement was distributed to member societies of the WFCCN between February 2004 and September 2004 and changes made following discussion and meeting of the WFCCN in Cambridge September 2004.

The second draft of this position statement was distributed to a wider audience including member societies of WFCCN, other international nursing and medicine organisations and individuals with an interest in critical care nursing between October 2004 and April 2005.

The third draft of this position statement was distributed to an ever-wider audience again including member societies of WFCCN, other international nursing and medicine organisations and individuals with an interest in critical care nursing between May2005 and August 2005.

A full meeting of the World Federation of Critical Care Nurses on Saturday 27 August 2005 at the Sheraton Hotel, Buenos Aires , Argentina , ratified this position statement.

Copyright of this statement is owned by WFCCN. Whilst this statement is freely available for all people to access its wording may not be changed under any circumstances.

Ged Williams, Chair, WFCCN

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25.10.2005: POSITION STATEMENT ON THE PROVISION OF CRITICAL CARE NURSING EDUCATION August 27, 2005 

INTRODUCTION At the 6 th World Congress on Intensive Care and Critical Care Medicine in Madrid , Spain 1993 the World Federation of Societies of Intensive Care and Critical Care Medicine endorsed what has become know as the Declaration of Madrid on the preparation of critical care nurses.

In May 2003 the World Federation of Critical Care Nurses under took a review of the Declaration of Madrid and recommendations from the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses position statement on critical care nursing education and other similar documents from member associations. The current position statement aims to inform/assist critical care nursing associations, health care providers, educational facilities and other interested parties in the development and provision of critical care nursing education.

The first draft of this position statement was distributed to member societies of the WFCCN between February 2004 and September 2004 and changes made following discussion and meeting of the WFCCN in Cambridge September 2004.

The second draft of this position statement was distributed to a wider audience including member societies of WFCCN, other international nursing and medicine organisations and individuals with an interest in critical care nursing between October 2004 and April 2005.

The third draft of this position statement was distributed to an ever-wider audience again including member societies of WFCCN, other international nursing and medicine organisations and individuals with an interest in critical care nursing between May2005 and August 2005.

A full meeting of the World Federation of Critical Care Nurses on Saturday 27 August 2005 at the Sheraton Hotel, Buenos Aires , Argentina , ratified this position statement.

Copyright of this statement is owned by WFCCN. Whilst this statement is freely available for all people to access its wording may not be changed under any circumstances.

Ged Williams, Chair, WFCCN

Download POSITION STATEMENT ON THE PROVISION OF CRITICAL CARE NURSING EDUCATION

CONNECT is the official journal of the World Federation of Critical Care Nurses (WFCCN). It is an on-line journal, published four times per year and is available free of charge – via the CONNECT web site www.connectpublishing.com - to all individual members of associations who are members of WFCCN - reaching an estimated 120,000 critical care nurses all over the world. Read more>>>>