25-28 September 2007 Hotel Croatia Cavtat, Croatia

The third FEPI conference, entitled FEPI Placing the Patient First; Effective Nursing Regulation across Europe, will focus on patient safety and how nursing regulation ensures public protection. The conference will be presented through three thematic areas that will reflect the work of FEPI carried out in 2007.

Thematic Area 1: Provision of quality nursing services in the internal market
Area 1 will be presenting and receiving feedback on 2007 FEPI initiative towards the set up of a European code of ethics for nursing. This thematic area will focus on how better regulation in the internal market ensures quality patient care. Area 1 will be reflecting the work accomplished by FEPI working group on ethical codes.

Thematic Area 2: Recognition of professional qualifications
Area 2 will provide the opportunity to discuss good practice on the implementation of the Directive of Recognition of Professional Qualifications. This thematic area will also concentrate on the opportunities and challenges of information sharing among competent authorities and citizens in Europe. Area 2 will be reflecting the work accomplished by FEPI working group on regulation.

Thematic Area 3: Nursing education and competences
Area 3 will focus on the effects of the Bologna process on nursing education. This thematic area will explore the possibility of developing a FEPI definition of nursing competences at the European level. Area 3 will be reflecting the work accomplished by FEPI working group ETC (Education, Training and Competences).

The work of the 3 thematic areas will result in the presentation of a resolution on the definition of a European nursing profile.

25 September 2007
20.00
Welcome reception

26 September 2007
8.30-9.30
Conference registration
9.30-10.00
Welcome addresses
Prof. Loredana Sasso, FEPI President
Mrs. Dragica Simunec, President of the Croatian Council,
FEPI Board member
Representative from Croatian authorities
10.00-11.30

The empowered patient: information and quality care
Mr. John Ferguson, Vice-President of CEPLIS- the European Council of the Liberal Professions

Patient centred health care in Europe - EPF's perspective
Mrs. Nicola Bedlington, Director of 'European Patients' Forum

Nursing regulators’ response to patient needs
Mrs. Moi Ali, Vice-President of the NMC-Nursing and Midwifery Council, UK

11.30-12.00
Coffee break
12.00-13.30

Area 1: Codes of Conduct

Code of Conduct and Ethics for European Nursing
Dr. Máximo Gonzalez Jurado, President of Spanish General Council of Nursing, FEPI Vice-President

The CEPLIS principles of the European codes of conduct for the liberal professions
Dr. Theodoros Koutroubas, Director General, CEPLIS
the European Council of the Liberal Professions
13.30-15.00
Lunch
15.00-16.30

Area 2: Recognition of professional qualifications
Introduction by Mrs. Maria Brzezinska, President of Katowice Chamber of Nurses and Midwifes Poland, chair of FEPI working group Regulation

The implementation process of the Directive on Recognition of Professional Qualifications
Mrs. An Baeyens, European Commission, DG Internal Market

Health Professionals Crossing Borders (HPCB): exchange of information between regulators
Mrs. Claire Herbert, HPCB Project Lead

The Certificate of Current Professional Status
Mrs. Teresa Oliveira Marçal, Ordem dos Enfermeiros – Portuguese Nursing Council
16.30-17.00
Coffee break
17.00-17.45

The Public-Private dialogue: a way to ensure regulation close to EU citizens
Mr. Grzegorz Ambroziewicz, European Commission, Directorate General Justice, Freedom and Security


27 September 2007
9.30-11.30

Area 3: Nursing education and competences
Introduction by Dr. Anne Marie Ryan, Chief Education Officer, An Bord Altranais Ireland, chair of FEPI working group on Education, Training and Competencies

The results and future developments of Tuning Education Structures in Europe
Dr. Mary Gobbi, Tuning coordinator for Nursing, University of Southampton

E-Hospital project, learning while at hospital
Mr. Holger Bienzle, Project coordinator, die Berater, training institution, Austria

11.30-12.00
Coffee break
12.00-13.00
Patient safety and nursing regulation in the US
Mrs. Faith Fields, President of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing NCSBN (US Regulators Organisation)
13.30-1430
Lunch
14.30-16.30

Working Groups
 3 working groups to be divided according to the thematic areas

WG 1 Provision of quality nursing services in the internal market WG 2 Recognition of professional qualifications
WG 3 Nursing education and competences

Coffee will be provided at the WG rooms

28 September 2007
9.00-10.30

Reporting back from the working groups
Working group rapporteurs

10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-12.30

Conference Resolution on the definition of the European nursing profile
Prof. Loredana Sasso, FEPI President

A response to the FEPI resolution from patient group representative