Undertaking nursing interventions throughout Europe: research activities of the working group on cardiovascular nursing of the European Society of cardiology
Received 8 August 2002; accepted 8 August 2002.
Abstract
The working Group on Cardiovascular Nursing is actively involved in international research though the UNITE (Undertaking Nursing Research Throughout Europe) research program, a new initiative for the WGCN. A group of cardiovascular nursing researchers from a number of different European countries committed themselves to a research group that is designed to promulgate international research in the field of cardiac nursing. The first study was a survey on coronary risk factors in a cohort of cardiac nurses from Europe. At this moment four additional studies are planned aimed at the development of the nursing profession in Europe and improvement of care for patients with chronic cardiac disease. If, as hoped, these studies prove to be successful, it will provide the seed for other international collaborations of this type.
University Hospital, Linkoping Heart Center, S-581 85 Linkoping, Sweden
1 Undertaking Nursing Interventions Throughout Europe (UNITE) Study Group: S. de Geest RN PhD, Basel, Switzerland; B. Fridlund RN PhD, Halmstad, Sweden; J. Heikkilä, RN PhD, Jyväskylä Finland; T. Jaarsma RN PhD, Groningen, Netherlands; J. Martinsson RN PhD, Jonkoping, Sweden; P. Moons RN MsN, Leuven, Belgium; W. Scholte op Reimer RN PhD, Rotterdam, Netherlands K. Smith RN PhD, Dundee, UK; S. Stewart RN PhD, Adelaide, Australia; A. Strömberg RN PhD, Linköping, Sweden; D.R. Thompson RN PhD, York, UK.
2 For correspondence contact A. Strömberg; Tel.: +46-13-222-163; fax: +46-13-138-731; e-mail: annst@imv.liu.se.
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