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15.08.2005

Download Draft Agenda for the WFCCN Full Council Meeting on August 27 2005.

POSITION STATEMENT ON THE PROVISION OF CRITICAL CARE NURSING EDUCATION
Background
At the 6th World Congress on Intensive care and Critical Care 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 services, educational facilities and other interested parties in the development and provision of critical care nursing education.The current draft position statement aims to canvass world-wide comment and opinion on the appropriateness and acceptability of the principles and recommendations contained within.

Final ratification of the position statement will occur at the 9th World Congress on Intensive Care and Critical Care in Buenos Aires, Argentina 2005.

DRAFT MAY 2005 Download draft here

Comments and questions on this current draft should be directed to:

Associate Professor Ged Williams, Chair, WFCCN

POSITION STATEMENT ON THE PROVISION OF CRITICAL CARE NURSING WORKFORCE
Background
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/assist critical care nursing associations, health services, governments and other interested parties in the development and provision of appropriate critical care nursing workforce requirements.

The current draft position statement aims to canvass world-wide comment and opinion on the appropriateness and acceptability of the principles and recommendations contained within.

Final ratification of the position statement will occur at the 9th World Congress on Intensive Care and Critical Care in Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 2005.

DRAFT MAY 2005 Download draft here

Comments and questions on this current draft should be directed to:

Associate Professor Ged Williams, Chair, WFCCN

02.01.2005

Asian Tsunami Disaster
The WFCCN wish to acknowledge the trauma and suffering of our friends and colleagues in the Tsunami affected regions of Asia. Many of our member associations and their members have been personally affected by this tragedy, others are actively participating in the relief effort.
The aim of the new Disaster Resource page of the WFCCN website is to provide information and resources for those persons interested in helping the relief efforts or improving relevant skills and knowledge that may assist with the recent tsunami disaster. Individual nurses and other persons of various disciplines involved in disaster relief may find useful information Read more>>>

  

01.12.2004

Birte Baktoft has joined the CoBaTrICE Advisory Board as the EfCCNa representative, and Ged Williams has represented WFCCN in this forum for some time. The objective of CoBaTrICE is to create an internationally acceptable competency-based training programme in intensive care medicine. The underlying principle of the project is the concept that a specialist in ICM trained in one country should possess the same core skills and abilities as one trained in another, thereby guaranteeing a common minimum standard of clinical competence. The project will use survey and consensus techniques to develop a web-based programme which will define the core competencies of an ICM specialist and link each competence to relevant assessment criteria and educational resources. Read more about CoBaTrICE, one of the major current projects in European Society of Intensive Care Medicinne (ESICM)

19.05.2004: WFCCN has just received communication that the International Council of Nurses has approved WFCCN as having mutual affiliation status.

Very few international nursing groups have achieved this recognition. It is a positive sign of the international standing that WFCCN has after just 2 short years, and it will help WFCCN to achieve more with our nursing and health colleagues internationally.

Ged Williams
President WFCCN

26.04.2004: International Workforce Guidelines

The WFCCN is looking for critical care nurses with expertise and knowledge in the
development of workforce guidelines for critical care nursing. Download Terms of
Reference in pdf-format provided for your information.

The basic process to be followed include:

1. Gather copies of staffing documents from around the world that explain
nursing/critical care workforce requirements.
2. Identify a template/format that would be appropriate to use.
3. Draft a few options and discussion paper and circulate for comment from the
interested persons.
4. Table draft at the WFCCN meeting in Cambridge (September 2004) or workshop the
document if needed.
5. Finalise document by end of 2004
6. Publish in 2005 and present full findings at 9th World Congress on Intensive Care
in Argentina, August 2005.

Any interested persons should contact Ged Williams

24.04.2004: The history of formal international dialogue aimed at forming stronger international networks between critical care nurses and Critical Care Nursing Organisations (CCNOs).

1985 - 4th World Congress - Tel Aviv – A nursing organisation (Australia) first ask to be admitted to WFSICCM.

1989 - 5th World Congress - Kyoto - Australia and USA applications accepted by WFSICCM. Sarah Sandford (USA) and Lorraine Ferguson (Australia) ask for nursing position on the board.

1993 - 6th World Congress - Madrid - CCNOs from Australia, USA, Britain and Spain formally admitted to WFSICCM and Nursing member appointed to board (Belinda Atkinson, England). Madrid Declaration on the Preparation of Critical Care Nurses announced and signed. CCNOs pledge to improve international communication, collaboration and expansion.

1994 - AACN Global Connections Conference, Toronto. CCNO’s meet during this conference, share visions and pledge to improve international communication, collaboration and expansion.

1997 - 7th World Congress - Ottawa - CCNOs meet during this conference, share visions and pledge to improve international communication, collaboration and expansion.

2000 - BACCN - Global Connections Conference, Edinburgh. Ged Williams presents results of the world CCNOs survey and outlines possibilities for an International network of Critical Care Nursing Organisations.Read fulltext article published in International Nursing Review 2001, No.48; 208-217

2001 - 30 October, 70 critical care nurses from 15 different countries were represented at a meeting of nurses during the 8th World Congress on Intensive Care in Sydney, Australia*. At this meeting they developed and endorsed a constitution to form the World Federation of Critical Care Nurses (WFCCN).

2003 NTI, San Antonio,USA, Ged Williams Presentation , Ma. Belle Rogado's Presentation and John Albarrans Presentation at NTI May 2003

*The inaugural Council were made up of:

Ged Williams (Australia) - Chair
Belle Rogado (Philippines) - Secretary
Bernice Budz (Canada) - Treasurer
John Albarran (United Kingdom) – Trade Liaison
Esther Wong (Hong Kong)
Debbie Kim (Korea)
Birte Baktoft (Denmark)
Gordon Speed (New Zealand)
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Key:
AACN: American Association of Critical Care Nurses
BACCN: British Association of Critical Care Nurses
CCNO: Critical Care Nursing Organisation
WFSICCM: World Federation of Intensive Care and Critical Care Medicine