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Organizations, Institutes and Associations are independent in character, often linked to others within an Organization with they work as a specialist section in pursuit of common interests. For Horatio this is also the case in our work close with the EFN and the ESNO. The EFN represents the European national nursing associations. The mission of EFN is to promote and protect nurses and the nursing profession with particular reference to the EU, by lobbying the European Institutions, like: the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of Europe. It's an organization for all nurses. More information can be found on the website of EFN.

It was in the interest of the EFN that specialist international nursing organization join forces and become a platform within EFN i.e. ESNO, the European Specialist Nursing Organization. ESNO will facilitate, enable and reflect the political voice of nurses, through collaboration with key stakeholders to strengthen the professional status and evidence based practice of nursing specialties and secure the recognition of specialism in nursing in the EU and the greater Europe.

The Objectives of ESNO are to network through communication and collaboration between European Specialist Nurses Organizations and specialist interest groups in Europe, to promote the recognition of and the professional status of the specialist nurse at the European level, to represent the interests of the member organizations, to provide expert advice on issues shaping specialism in nursing and to promote the development of specialist nursing education, practice and research. More on ESNO.