Professor Dame Anne Marie Rafferty addresses the EFN 115th EFN General Assembly
Invited to the 115th General Assembly of the European Federation of Nurses Associations (EFN), Dame Prof. Anne Marie Rafferty, ENRF President, gave an overview (through video message) of the current ENRF developments.
She highlighted the work done on the three new ENRF Policy Briefs on the topics: Advanced Practice Nursing, Planetary Health, and Violence Against Nurses, to be made available soon (The 3 first ones on Care Left Undone, Digitalisation & Mentorship are available here), with their own recommendations, which becomes the mechanism for identifying the priorities to take forward for lobbying on research policy next to the European Commission.
She then stressed the evolution of the ENRF Stakeholders’ and policy mapping document, including work to capture ENRF impact on the EU policy and research agenda, including ENRF major focus, over the last few months, on the European Health Parliament – with some successes for the ENRF in influencing their outcomes on Digitalisation.
Furthermore, ENRF President briefed the EFN Members on the EFN Executive Committee and ENRF Board of Directors meeting held on 1st June 2022 to discuss the future and sustainability of the ENRF. A proposal for an external review of the ENRF has been considered and a Terms of Reference is now being developed jointly by the EFN President & ENRF President, with the support of Pat Cullen (RCN – EFN Executive Committee member). The ambition is to present developments at the next EFN General Assembly, in April 2023.
Finally, she mentioned the ENRF newsletters, with a new one to be released in November 2022, and the future review the ENRF Communication processes to better spread the work done by the ENRF.
The EFN Members were very happy to see all the work done by the ENRF, and look forward for the upcoming developments.
