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We are saddened by the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Turkey and Syria as a result of the recent earthquakes.
We commend nurses, healthcare workers as well as all first responders and volunteers for their courage to save lives regardless of challenges and risks.
ETNA Executive Board
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We are extremely happy to announce that ETNA is back for an in-person, face-to-face conference in Odense, Denmark co-hosted by the University of Southern Denmark.
The conference will take place from 25th to 28th June 2023. Save these dates and we will soon share more details including the Call for Papers and travel details.
We hope to see as many of you there as possible, after two years of online meetings and conferences, we all deserve some great time together in person!
Presents user-friendly knowledge on socially assistive humanoid AI robots for health and social care
KEY FEATURES
Presents user-friendly and stage-by-stage information to help readers appreciate how AI and robots work and how they can be integrated in their work environments
Explains why AI and socially assistive robotics need to be culturally competent
Helps reduce readersā fears and change negative prejudices they may have about robots as a relevant tool for health and social care
Written by experts in AI robotics and the creators of transcultural health/social robotics
Informed by the largest trial conducted with real patients
DESCRIPTION
Transcultural Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in Health and Social Care provides health and social care professionals with a deeper understanding of the incredible opportunities brought by the emerging field of AI robotics. In addition, it provides robotic researchers with the point-of-view of healthcare professionals to understand what the health and social care sector ā as well as the market ā really needs from robotics technology. By doing so, the book fills an important gap between both fields in order to leverage new developments and collaborative work in favor of global patients.
The book is aimed at the non-technical reader, especially health and social care professionals, and explains in a simple way the technological principles applied in the development of socially assistive humanoid robots (SAHR), the values which guide such developments, the ethics related to them, and research approaches in the field, with a focus on achieving a culturally competent SAHR.
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Dear ETNA Members,
I cordially invite you to read the monograph:
Medical professions in international perspective. Nurse.
This book was created thanks to the involvement of many people and presents the history and current situation of nursing in 14 countries around the world.
The access to the book:
https://repozytorium.ur.edu.pl/bitstream/handle/item/7643/e-book_Medical%20professions_NURSE.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
I would like to take this opportunity to thank once again all the Authors who prepared the individual chapters.Ā A special thank you goes to Prof. Irena Papadopoulos, President of ETNA both for her contribution to the preparation of the book and for the opportunity to post this information here on the ETNA website.
I would be very pleased if you would like to spread the book among your colleagues and students.
Enjoy reading!
MaÅgorzata NagĆ³rska
CONTENTS
Notes about the authors ............................................................................................................ 7
List of abbreviations ................................................................................................................13
Preface .................................................................................................................................... 17
Valerie Tothova
Nursing in Czech Republic ................................................................................................. 19
Katalin Papp
Nursing in Hungary ............................................................................................................. 33
Ilya Kagan, Sara Nissim, Karin Lee Ovadia
Nursing in Israel .................................................................................................................. 49
Isuzu Nakamoto, Sachiko Horita, Sawako Sasai, Sayaka Uiji, Tomoko Wakamura
Nursing in Japan .................................................................................................................. 58
Linda Alondere, Jelena Kuznecova
Nursing in Latvia ................................................................................................................. 79
BiruteĢ GostevicĢieneĢ, Simona PaulikieneĢ
Nursing in Lithuania ........................................................................................................... 94
MaÅgorzata NagoĢrska, MaÅgorzata LesinĢska-Sawicka
Nursing in Poland ................................................................................................................ 107
Raul Alberto Carrilho Cordeiro, JoseĢ Carlos Carvalho
Nursing in Portugal ............................................................................................................. 120
Mircea Timofte, Roxana Hainagiu
Nursing in Romania ............................................................................................................. 133
Dragana Simin, Dragana MilutinovicĢ
Nursing in Serbia ................................................................................................................. 151
Dana ZrubcovaĢ, Andrea SolgajovaĢ
Nursing in Slovakia .............................................................................................................. 169
Manca PajnicĢ, Renata Vettorazzi, Tina Levec, LjubisĢa PaÄen
Nursing in Slovenia .............................................................................................................. 191
Neziha Karabulut
Nursing in Turkey ................................................................................................................ 209
Irena Papadopoulos
Nursing in United Kingdom ................................................................................................ 225
Global nursing, midwifery and social care responses and challenges to Covid-19 pandemic during 2020-21Ā
Thursday 24 March 2022Ā |Ā 2-4pm (UK time)
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Join us for our first online conference where several international experts will discuss nursing, midwifery and social care responses and challenges to the COVID-19 pandemic during 2020-21.
Keynote speakers
Prof Fhumulani Mavis Mulaudzi, University of Pretoria
Reflections on the Lessons learned on the impact of Covid-19 pandemic to the nursing profession in South Africa: An Ubuntu perspectiveĀ
Prof Roinah Ngunyulu, University of Johannesburg
South Africa during the peak of COVID-19 pandemic - Midwifery Perspective
Ms Brinelle Dāsouza, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
The COVID Pandemic and Anti Minority Bias in Health Care Services in India
Prof Irena Papadopoulos, Middlesex University London
The need for a National Strategy for the provision of culturally competent Spiritual Care and Support during Major Health Disasters
Kathy Devitt, Fronditha Care
The Australian Aged Care Experience
Prof Azita Emami, University of Washington
Inequities of COVID Response in a Diverse NationĀ
Seasonās greetings from the ETNA President Professor Irena Papadopoulos
Dear ETNA members,
As we are approaching the end of another year, I would like to send you all my best season's greetings. This time of the year there are a number of religious festivals, such as, Hanukkah, Xmas, Pancha Ganapati, Zarathosht Diso, and non religious festivals, such as, the Solstice and HumanLight. May you all have a meaningful time to celebrate and reflect. I take this opportunity to wish you all a very happy, health and fulfilled New Year 2020.2019 has been a busy year for the ETNA. We had a very successful conference in the Czech Republic, The University of South Bohemia, in June where around 120 people from all over the world gathered to present, discuss, ponder, listen, participate, etc on matters relating to the conference theme: "THE NURSING CURRICULUM NEEDS A CULTURAL REVOLUTION: THE WHY, THE HOW, THE WHAT AND THE WHEN OF A GLOBAL CULTURALLY COMPETENT CURRICULUM". We also had a lot of fun and opportunities to learn about the Czech culture. I want to thank Professor Valeria Tothova and her team for all the hard work associated in hosting the conference. It was FABULOUS!At the AGM, the ETNA Board decided that we should organise an event to celebrate the International Year of Nursing and Midwifery 2020. So the work for a 2020 conference began straight after the 2019 conference. Dr Maria Jose Morales and Dr Epifania Medina Artiles from the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, have agreed to host the 7th ETNA conference ' Celebrating Excellence in Transcultural Nursing'. I thank them very much and look forward to being there during 25-28 June 2020. We are now accepting abstract submissions. Please join us in what promises to be an exciting conference. You can find all the info at https://conferenciaenfermeriatranscultural.ulpgc.es/
In 2020 ETNA will be celebrating its 15th anniversary. To help us mark the occasion the ETNA Board has decided to raise some money through donations from its members and their friends and colleagues. Please consider making a donation and sharing our Paypal link https://www.paypal.me/ETNADonations with your friends and colleagues.Sending you my warmest season's greetings as well as my best wishes for the New Year 2020. With sincere regards,Professor Irena PapadopoulosPresident of ETNA
Dear ETNA members, colleagues and friends,
The European Transcultural Nurses Association (ETNA) is celebrating its 15th anniversary in 2020. Over the years ETNA, a non-fee membership association, run by volunteers, has offered support, advice and opportunities to its 400 members. We organise and deliver amazing and affordable conferences every two years, we provide a regular newsletter in which our members have the opportunity to write about their work and disseminate information about events they are organising, and we maintain a website with useful information and further networking opportunities. Whilst all this work is being done on a voluntary basis and some donations from the ETNA Board members, we now wish to give you an opportunity to make a donation to enable the organisation to grow and continue its good work. Any donation will be much appreciated and it will help pay the rising costs associated with the ETNA website, the establishment of regular webinars to provide much needed training in culturally competent health and social care, and the mentoring of students and qualified staff (in Europe and globally) who wish to undertake research projects related to transcultural health and cultural competence.
I wish to thank you for reading this message, for making a
donation and for sharing our Paypal link https://www.paypal.me/ETNADonations
with your friends and colleagues.
For more information visit the ETNA website at http://europeantransculturalnurses.eu.
Kind regards
Prof. Irena Papadopoulos President of ETNA