Nursing and Allied Healthcare professionals

What is the N&AHP Committee?

The Nursing and Allied Health Professionals Committee is the representative body of ESICM nurse and AHP members. The main objective of the committee is to facilitate the integration of nurses and other allied healthcare professionals within all other ESICM committees and to develop active participation at all levels of the Society.

Committee Members

• Chairwoman: Christina Jones, United Kingdom
• Congress Committee: Stijn Blot, Belgium
• Research Committee: Freda de Keyser Ganz, Israel
• Other committee members are :
  • Ana Rosa, Portugal
  • Katherina Iliopoulou, Greece
  • Terry O'Reilly, United Kingdom

N&AHP members 

The ESICM actively encourages membership from any health professionals working or strongly associated with intensive care. Curently, there are nurses and physiotherapists members from more than 15 European countries and there are opportunities to link and share practice and experience via the Annual Congress as well as via research projects.
 

Aims and Strategy

• Raise the profile of intensive care nursing and allied health professionals within the ESICM and amongst European nurses and AHPs;
• Work to increase the opportunities for nurses and AHP across Europe to attend the congress and to be involved in pre-Congress activities;
• Provide support for first time Congress presenters, from abstract submission through to presentation;
• Develop networking opportunities for nurses and allied health professionals across Europe both at the annual congress and via the ESICM NAHP webpages;
• Provide opportunities for nurses and allied health professionals to get involved in collaborative research studies.

Contact us 

The Committee would very much like to hear from nurses and AHP in Europe about issues and topics of interest or concern that should be raised in a European context. Do not hesitate to contact the related member of the Committee as mentioned above or liaise with the Membership Department.

Nursing & AHP Committee Minutes

Minutes of the Committee meeting held in Berlin (4 Oct 2011).

Minutes of the Committee meeting held in Brussels (22 March 2011).

Minutes of the Committee meeting held in Barcelona (10 Oct 2010).

Minutes of the Committee meeting held in Brussels (10 March 2010).

Minutes of the Committee meeting held in Vienna (13 Oct 2009).
Minutes of the Committee meeting held in Brussels (24 March 2009).

Next meeting of the N&AHP Committee

The next meeting will be at the ESICM Annual Congress in Brussels in March 2012, the exact date and time to be confirmed. All members are welcome to attend.

Exciting opportunities

• Members of the committee offer support with abstract writing; if you’d like help submitting an abstract for the next Congress, please contact the chair, Christina Jones.
• Vacancies on the NAHP committee become available every 18 months; if you’re interested in getting more involved, contact Christina Jones.

• Interested in applying for sponsorship to go to the ESICM Annual Congress? Please read the following details of the Intensive and Critical Care Nursing study award.

Useful Links

Facebook Group for European ICU Nurses and Allied Health Professionals

To try to improve communication and help European ICU Nurses and Allied Health Professionals network and discuss their practice and possible research there is now a facebook group.

Post Graduate Nursing Diploma

The Nursing and AHP Committee are working towards developing an ESICM Post Graduate Nursing Diploma. This first move will hopefully be to undertake a Delphi study to develop European Nursing competencies. Watch this space for further developments.