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Organised by Spain\u2019s Nursing Union SATSE<\/a>, the event brought together 900 nurses and allied healthcare professionals, researchers, and international union leaders to examine the future of care in the digital age, focusing on balancing technological innovation with human-centred care, and the necessity to drive an insightful transformation that will place care at the centre of the healthcare systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Invited as keynote speaker, EFN Secretary General gave an overview on EFN work on Artificial Intelligence and raised the importance to make sure that AI supports nursing care and that nursing leaders and frontline nurses, as end-users, are always included in the co-design of AI and EU legislation on AI. Nurses\u2019 input to the interoperability of digital healthcare systems and health data (EHDS) and co-design is key for better outcomes for the healthcare systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, EFN Secretary General took this opportunity to inform the participants on the two EU funded projects the EFN is involved in: KEEPCARING<\/a> – dedicated to enhancing the wellbeing and resilience of healthcare professionals in EU hospital settings; and ICUDATA4EU<\/a> – addressing the challenge of enabling secure, interoperable and privacy-preserving secondary use of intensive care unit (ICU) data across Europe, raising their key aims and latest developments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Organised by Spain\u2019s Nursing Union SATSE, the event brought together…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20127,"comment_status":"closed","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-20126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13167,"url":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=13167","url_meta":{"origin":20126,"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 "Latest News"","block_context":{"text":"Latest News","link":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?cat=35"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":16089,"url":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=16089","url_meta":{"origin":20126,"position":1},"title":"INTO THE EU POLITICAL PRIORITIES WITH EFN!","author":"efn efn","date":"May 15, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the key European Parliament political priority is the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, which recognises gender-based violence against women as a violation of human rights and a form of discrimination. 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