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Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA).
An article entitled "The impact of pandemics on education—“a nice monster of COVID-19”—Mini review" has been published on the Frontiers website. All partners contributed to it. The article deals with the following contents.
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the urgent need for specialized medical professionals, including specialist nurses. To address this, healthcare systems should collaborate with national agencies to develop and implement comprehensive curricula for training these specialists. The educational process should be based on international standards, incorporating digital education techniques like e-learning, interactive content, and virtual reality-based medical models. Trainers should adopt a supportive role, guiding and organizing the educational process. Assessment methods should also be modernized to include digital techniques like quizzes, assignments, and objective structured clinical examinations. This review provides insights into effective learning and training techniques for innovative medical education.
The ISN – Innovative Skills for Nurses fourth partners' meeting was held in Targu Mures, Romania, on July 4-5, 2024. All partners were in attendance, discussing several key topics. These included the withdrawal of the French partner, an assessment of the curricula by the target groups, a peer review of the online course, and the planning of a Digital Repository of images. This repository is intended to enhance learning scenarios dedicated to the training of advanced nurses, reflecting the consortium's commitment to improving nursing education and ensuring the continued success of the ISN project.
Partners have started the process of adaptation and recognition of teh curricula in their university and university partners. This process will last for the whole project.
The draft versions of the curricula have been produced and the University of Targu Mures, as project coordinator, is reviewing them so that partners can keep working on them.
The final version of the first output of the ISN project is online and it consists 2 curricula addressed to Specialist Nurses (SN) in anesthesiology and intensive care and Advanced Practice Nurses. The curricula are now available on the project website and will be evaluated by the target groups of the project.
The ISN project was mentioned and described in a published article in the 25th volume, p. 22-23, of the magazine "Τα νέα μας". It is a magazine of Aristotle University's Medical School, that promotes and disseminates all the research, innovative and educational programmes that are carried out by the school's staff. This magazine is then sent online to the email addresses of all the students, post and pre-graduate, and teachers/professors. The article, that was published, described the main scope and purposes of the programme ''Innovative skills for nurses'' and it was accompanied by the website's link and brochure.
The University of Klaipeda organised a conference for Klaipeda region schools and higher education institutions to share the Innovative Skills for Nurses project and the results reached so far. During the conference the future activities and outputs were presented.
After the third partners meeting, partners reviewed the table of contents of the Online Course giving feedback to improve it. The table of Contents is now finalised and completed. Each partner will start working on the assigned Module of the course.
The third partners’ meeting took place in Strasbourg, France on 13 – 14 September 2023. Oana Marginean and Andrea Anzanello presented the project and the activities to be carried out. The meeting was an opportunity to present the Benchmarking Report on the national analysis of the curricula. Moreover, partners presented the curricula developed and planned the future activities to finalise them.
Finally, the templates to carry out the WP3 - Online Course were presented.
The section hosting the Benchmarking report is now online on the ISN portal. Users can read it and inform themselves on the issues and the challenges that the ISN project wants to face regarding the lack of university curricula for nurses.
The Benchmarking Report on Curricula Analysis in Europe is now produced and it will be uploaded online shortly to be at disposal of users of the ISN project portal.
Partners finalised the curricula analysis on the situation in Europe. Five documents were produced analysing 3 European countries each. Now the material will be analysed by the project coordinator with which will produce a Benchmarking Report as official output of the ISN project.
The university partner of the ISN project released the draft of their curricula analysis around Europe. Now the University of Targu Mures, as project coordinator, will review them in order to be then finalised.
Project partners started to involve lecturers and nurses that will be part of an internal working group to develop the curricula.
The second partners’ meeting took place in Florence, Italy on 18 – 19 January 2023. Oana Marginean and Lorenzo Martellini presented the project and the activities to be carried out. The meeting was an opportunity to check the ongoing work of the evaluation of the curricula for nurses around Europe partners are carrying out. At the end of the meeting, all the partners had a clear view of the future project's implementation and the next activity which is the finalization f the national reports of the curricula evaluation and the revision of the Curricula proposal.
The partners of the ISN project started to carry out the analysis of the situation around Europe on the curricula for nurses. The first results will be discussed during the meeting in Florence in January 2023.
The online meeting was on 8 November 2022. Oana Marginean and Andrea Anzanello presented the project and the activities to be carried out. The meeting was also an opportunity for the partners to know each other and discuss all details related to the next project's activities. At the end of the meeting, all the partners had a clear view of the future project's implementation and the next activity which is the national review of the curricula for nurses.
The ISN project is funded by the European Commission through the Romanian National Agency for the Erasmus+ Programme with the aims to develop appropriate and innovative solutions for the training of Specialist Nurses (SN) and Advanced Practice Nurses (APN) as well as at updating the skills of trainers (dealing with in-service nurses) and lecturers (dealing with student nurses).