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The European Nurse Directors Association (ENDA) Code of Ethics

We are pleased to inform you that following the October 2009 ENDA Congress held in Helsinki, the Proto-Code of Ethics for Nurse Directors was approved for consultation. We would like to invite colleagues and organisations to comment, contribute and disseminate this code prior to finalising it. Click here for the full article. The closing date for replies is 30th June 2010 !!!

Upcoming ENDA congress: October 2011, Rome, Italy

The European Nurse Directors Association (ENDA)

The European Nurse Directors Association (ENDA) was founded in 1992 in Geneva, Switzerland for the purpose of building a network between nurse directors throughout Europe. The following years the ENDA developed herself and chose three objectives.

The main objectives of the ENDA are to to strengthen the nursing contribution to policy making in the context of healthcare management in Europe, to further the development of the art and science of nursing leadership and management in Europe and to establish formal links between Nurse Directors across Europe to support a communication network of experts.

The ENDA is organising a bi-yearly congress in a main European city. So far 8 ENDA meetings took place in Geneva (Switzerland, 1993), Brussels (Belgium, 1995), Turku (Finland, 1997), Halle (Germany, 1999), Rotterdam (The Netherlands, 2001), Glasgow (Scotland, UK, 2003), Vienna (Austria, 2005), Reykjavik (Iceland, 2007) and Helsinki (Finland, 2009). The next congress will be held in October 2011 in Rome, Italy.

Each participating country has his own national representative in the Standing Committee of the ENDA. The Committee chose out of her members a board. The ENDA welcomes more participants and members in order to extend her European network of experts.

ENDA is a member of ESNO (European Specialist Nurses Organisations, associated member of the European Federation of Nurses Associations EFN).

The ENDA also participates in the European Nutrition for Health Alliance (ENHA). See on www.european-nutrition.org. Good nutrition is vital to life, like air and water, its a basic need. Let's treat it like one. Click here to view/download the ENHA 2009 flyer!

ENDA Newsfeed

We are happy to announce the availibility of the ENDA Newsfeed, our own RSS feed which will be used in addition to our website for news, releases and update notifications. Please add ENDA RSS to your RSS viewer to be informed and notified the moment something happens at the ENDA by clicking on the RSS newsfeed icon.