ICNP--cz and Czech Nursing

Jana Marečková, Palacký University, Olomouc

Jan Vejvalka, Charles University, Prague

(Pre-) History

• fall 1997 - Ioana Moisil, first contacts with ICNP, seek for partners in nursing

• spring 1999 - Ioana insists, promises a trip to Maribor

• summer 1999 - first (0-th) draft translation of ICNP-into Czech

• fall 1999 - conference in Maribor

ICNP--cz-0.1

fall 1999 - presentation to the Min of Health Council for Nursing

fall 1999 - project proposal for Charles Universitywinter 1999 - bi-lingual representation of ICNP--cz-0.1

(Excel, printed form)spring 2000 - new search for partnersspring 2000 - project proposal for Czech Universities’

Development Fundsummer 2000 - Conference in Sibiu, translation finished

Czech Nursing - University Programmes

Bachelor degree - 6 faculties (Prague, Olomouc, Brno, Plzeň, České Budějovice)

Master degree - Olomouc (programmes in education and in management)

Doctor degree - none

Czech Nursing - Professional Organizations

Czech Association of Nursing - member of ICNUnion of NursingCzech Midwives’ Accociation

Common meeting of these three organizations in May 2000, provisional Council for Nursing Research and Education (faculty staff, college staff, practicing nurses) - ambition to become an advisory board to Min of Edu and Min of Health

AIM - TO TRANSFORM LEGISLATION TOWARDSTRANSPARENT PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCES

ICNP--cz-0.1

its objective (similarly to this version of classification itself) is

1. to allow Czech nursing community to take part in the discussion on concepts and definitions included in this version of ICNP classification

and

2. to open a discussion on Czech terms used for translation.

ICNP--cz - next steps

need for “sustainable development”DISSEMINATION & DEVELOPMENTgenerating projects to move furtherco-operation with Slovakia

• winter 2000 - tools for D&D• spring 2001 - project for Min of Health (recent change

of attitude towards informatics and towards nursing)search for funding – generating projects