{"id":11759,"date":"2019-10-15T13:52:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T11:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.efnweb.be\/?p=11759"},"modified":"2019-10-15T13:52:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T11:52:48","slug":"the-digital-skills-and-the-nursing-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=11759","title":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity, digital skills and nursing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #1c1e29;\">Cyber-security, big data and the Internet of Things (IoT) are topics that touch upon the digitalisation of healthcare, and hence, are of the interest of the nursing community. For that reason, the EFN is sharing its views in an event organised by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #4a6ee0;\">European Commission<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/easme\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #4a6ee0;\">EASME<\/span><\/a>).\u00a0 This\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/growth\/content\/skills-smes-fostering-adoption-cyber-security-big-data-and-internet-things_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #4a6ee0;\">event<\/span><\/a>\u00a0is titled &#8220;Fostering the Adoption of Cyber-security, Big Data and LoT &#8211; Skills for SMEs&#8221; (a.k.a. small and medium-sized enterprises).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #1c1e29;\">It brings together about 200 experts from industry, trade unions, education and training organisations, governments and SMEs across the EU. Participants, during a series of panel discussions, talked about how to address the importance of skills development to better support the digital transformation &#8211; this is a key topic for the nursing profession \u2013 and as such the EFN has published a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/EU-Roadmap-to-advance-Lifelong-Learning-April-2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #4a6ee0;\">roadmap<\/span><\/a>\u00a0to advance lifelong learning for nurses. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #1c1e29;\">In addition to that, participants are discussing the urgency of increasing cyber-security in digitalisation. This conclusion is aligned with the ongoing developments that the two projects on Electronic Health Records the EFN is part of (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.efnweb.be\/?page_id=10684\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #4a6ee0;\">InteropEHRate<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.efnweb.be\/?page_id=10687\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #4a6ee0;\">Smart4Health<\/span><\/a>).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #1c1e29;\">Finally, stakeholders talk on how the education should be tailored to the need of end-users, overcoming existing barriers to develop the necessary skills to adopt new technologies. This requires a strengthened collaboration between all stakeholders &#8211; including both the educators and the industry.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyber-security, big data and the Internet of Things (IoT) are&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-11759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13167,"url":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=13167","url_meta":{"origin":11759,"position":0},"title":"EFN provides nurses\u2019 input to the EU High-Level Roundtable on digital skills for the health workforce","author":"efn efn","date":"February 16, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Organised together by Commissioner Nicolas Schmit (Jobs and Social Rights), Commissioner Thierry Breton (Internal Market) and Commissioner Stella Kyriakides (Health and Food Safety), the EFN President, Elizabeth Adams, was invited to provide the nurses\u2019 views on the challenges that nurses face today in terms of up-skilling and re-skilling in digital\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Latest News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Latest News","link":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?cat=35"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":16222,"url":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=16222","url_meta":{"origin":11759,"position":1},"title":"BEWELL SUMMER GENERAL ASSEMBLY","author":"efn efn","date":"June 22, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"On 19 and 20 June, the EFN, representing 3 million EU nurses, participated in the Bewell Summer General Assembly in Oslo. 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