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What would you like to have as you 'take' and 'talk' home message from ESNO congress 2020 ? Network with other specialist nurses and have a clearer idea of way forward for nursing specialization in Europe Priority areas for working together as specialist nurses in order to promote standards across Europe for education and practice. How to engage is discussions at national and European levels to advocate for change Future of nurse specialists in today's healthcare challenges Build together a brighter future for advance nursing what are similar challenges and differences, Specialist nurses Organisation have to struggle with? Is an official recognition as a specialty a dream or is it possible in Europe? What is ESNO´s position and tasks in this process? ESNO strategies to implement the profile of the nurse specialist in Europe what's the future for ICU nurse in Europe When is the ESNO congress 2020 successful for you ? Understanding more about ESN

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date:                     19-02-2020 Place:                    Brussels, Belgium Subject:               Coronavirus outbreak “Current and future virus infections outbreaks, European professional competencies under revision” The current situation of the Coronavirus outbreak is creating a lot of pressure, including burnout, on all healthcare institutions especially on nurses who are the front liners, and those who are working in countries that are affected by the new COVID-19 virus. ESNO comments the ICN letter to colleague nurses in China [1] . Since it is a new Coronavirus, we do not yet know exactly its mode of transmission. However from the preliminary knowledge that we have, it seems to follow the same routes as the previous SARS virus way back in 2002 i.e via respiratory droplets when a person coughs and sneezes and also through the environment when people touch a contaminated surface and then touch their face (eyes and mouth)

What are you expectation for the day? To understand what specialist nurses would like from ESNO in the near future Networking with other professionals I am keen to profile dermatology as a speciality for nurses. I would like to learn how health care is provided and the roles and responsibilities available to nurses working throughout Europe. Understand what it means to be a specialist nurse working in Europe. Sharing from the various organisations and countries to have the opportunity to learn about nursing specialties other than mine (I am a nurse anesthesist ) in Europe to gain information on how to be link with health-related projects, sponsored by the EU Networking with people who have some influence in the EU politics or healthcare organisations to collaborate Dynamics and interaction and getting to know person before the ESNO congress Learning about organisations of the health sector Perspectives and strategies and especially for Nursing and Nursing education in the f

Nurse Guide on Microbes, touching Vaccination, Anti-Microbial Resistance and Infection Prevention Control.  Over the past years most of our stakeholders -and shared their interest- on the ESNO's intention to develop a nurses guide on AMR, Vaccination and Infection Prevention Control, see more at our ESNO website and Guide . In May 2019 a focus group was established to create the guide. We were pleased with the support of Vaccine Europe and can share that we are almost ready with our 120 A4 paged Guide and also pleased to be in the stage starting the preparations for the launch event. This is scheduled on the  28 April  in the afternoon during the European Immunization week. This area of antimicrobial resistance and infection control is a key priority for us. We have seen the impact of emerging infections such as Zika, Ebola or the most recent corona-virus with the last one also already included in the guide. We are extremely aware that there is a gap in nursing education across