{"id":11126,"date":"2019-04-12T08:49:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T06:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.efnweb.be\/?p=11126"},"modified":"2019-04-12T08:49:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T06:49:51","slug":"efn-members-in-brussels-for-the-109th-efn-general-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=11126","title":{"rendered":"EFN Members in Brussels for the 109th EFN General Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify;\">National representatives of 3 million EU nurses met in Brussels for the biannual EFN General Assembly, on 11 and 12 April. This represents a crucial moment for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.efnweb.be\/?page_id=802\">36 EFN Members<\/a>, that take the opportunity to share views and analyse the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.efnweb.be\/?page_id=831\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">key political topics<\/a> that are driving the EU agenda and discuss the nursing contribution, in addition to their impact on the nursing profession and the citizens of Europe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify;\">Improving the quality of working conditions for nurses and ensuring that the workforce remains <a href=\"https:\/\/efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/EFN-Policy-Statement-on-CPD-Final042015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">skilled and motivated<\/a> are key priorities for the EFN. In this sense, the 109<sup>th<\/sup> EFN General Assembly was a key occasion to reflect and elaborate on the needed actions to improve nursing skills, knowledge and training programmes, and liaise and share views with Agata Walaszczyk-Terrasse (<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/growth\/index_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EC DG GROW<\/a>) on the nursing skills, and with Jeroen Jutte (<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/social\/home.jsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EC DG Employment<\/a>) on the <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/publications\/2019-european-semester-country-reports_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EU country reports 2019<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/business-economy-euro\/economic-and-fiscal-policy-coordination\/eu-economic-governance-monitoring-prevention-correction\/european-semester_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EU semester<\/a>, seen as a key tool to implement the <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/priorities\/deeper-and-fairer-economic-and-monetary-union\/european-pillar-social-rights_en\">European Pillar of Social Rights<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify;\">The EFN Members are strongly engaged to ensure that nurses\u2019 contribution is valued and their involvement in EU policy-making is key to benefit patients and health systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National representatives of 3 million EU nurses met in Brussels&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10105,"url":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=10105","url_meta":{"origin":11126,"position":0},"title":"EFN General Assembly brings nursing reality upfront!","author":"efn efn","date":"April 17, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The EFN Members gathered for their 107th EFN General Assembly (GA) in their usual Spring meeting in Brussels. 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