Welcome on the website of Horatio,
the European Association for Psychiatric Nurses
Development
The Association started as a network for psychiatric/mental health nurses in 2005, was officially established as an Association in April 2006 and had its foundation congress and first general assembly in March 2007. Having established the Association, the next phase is to expand the Association by:
- recruiting psychiatric/mental health nursing organisations and individual nurses into the Association,
- creating a network for psychiatric/mental health nurses at an intercontinental level.
Membership
The Association is a representative organisation for psychiatric/mental health nurses within the spectrum of other expert groups of the nursing profession in Europe. Full membership of the Association is available to:
- national organisation for psychiatric/mental health nurses in each country,
- nursing organisations that have a major psychiatric/mental health nurses section.
Associate membership is available to individual psychiatric/mental health nurses.
Aims
The aims of the Association are twofold:
- to advocate for the interest of the members by providing input into the decision-making processes on issues relevant to psychiatric/mental health nursing in Europe,
- to promote the development of psychiatric/mental health nursing practice, education, management and research.
II. European Psychiatric Nursing Congress: Building Bridges, 15th-17th April 2010, Prague
Congress
Theme:
We have chosen a subheading Building Bridges for II. European Psychiatric Nursing Congress. A bridge allows people to cross an obstacle, connects or reduces distance. We would like to offer participants an opportunity for building their own bridges by sharing knowledge and experience.
The Scientific Committee of the Horatio invites abstract submissions from all psychiatric nurses and related health disciplines. Further reading >>
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