We are very grateful to our Advisors who include:

Birte Baktoft, Nurse Consultant in Critical Care Education and Development, Randers Hospital, Denmark; Chair of the Danish Society of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Nursing, Chair of the Danish External Examiners of Critical Care Education, and is a member of both the County and the National Critical Care Education Council. Chair of the Education Committee European federation of Critical Care Nursing associations (EfCCNa)

Bronagh Blackwood, Lecturer, Nursing & Midwifery Research Unit, Queen's University Belfast, N. Ireland. Director of British Association of Critical Care Nurses UK

David Chan, BLS& ACLS Instructor (AHA), ACCN Instructor (ACCCN), Nurse Specialist (ICU), Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong: Chair of the Professional Development Committee in HKACCN.

Paul Fulbrook, Professor of Nursing at the Australian Catholic University, Brisbane, Australia and Clinical Reader in Critical Care at the Centre for Practice Development at the Institute of Health & Community Studies, Bournemouth University, UK. Co-editor of Connect: The World of Critical Care, Editorial Board member of Nursing in Critical Care

Lynne Harrison, Senior Lecturer at University of Central Lancashire: Co-editor of Connect: The World of Critical Care

Link to The Pain Network UK.Ruth Heafield, Nurse Consultant in Pain and Director of Pain Network UK

Julie Scholes, Professor of Nursing, Centre for Nursing and Midwifery Research, University of Brighton. UK Editor of Nursing in Critical Care

Rósa Thorsteinsdóttir, Head Nurse in the Intensive Care Unit, FSA, University Hospital, Akureyri, Iceland; International contact of the Icelandic Association of Critical Care Nurses; Vice-President of the European federation of Critical Care Nursing associations, EfCCNa. Secretary Federation of Critical Care Nursing Associations Connections

The CONNECT Critical Care Academy

The Academy is an initiative based on a partnership between the publishers of the online Journal Connect: the World of Critical Care Nursing and Index Communications Meetings Services. Through this partnership the Academy seeks to offer a series of top quality educational opportunities that will challenge, stimulate and enrich the knowledge base of experienced nursing and healthcare professionals working in the Critical Care environment.

Participants will be exposed to lectures, masterclasses, equipment demonstrations and workshops, discussions and debates on key themes that underpin Critical Care practice. The emphasis is on the development and enhancement of knowledge that informs clinical practice.

Academy Objectives

The Academy aims to provide opportunities for experienced nursing practitioners and other healthcare professionals to (i) analyse and evaluate knowledge from the nursing, ethical, social, medical and biological sciences. (ii) analyse practice to maximise the effectiveness of clinical intervention and practice for the critically ill patient.

The Academy Offers:

  1. a programme of one and two day courses on key fundamental topics for Critical Care practice.
  2. nurturing environment that enables all Critical Care nurses and other healthcare professionals to attend and contribute
  3. national and international presenters and opinion leaders
  4. lectures, masterclasses, equipment demonstrations and workshops, discussions and debates on key themes
  5. multi–stakeholder groups including medical supply companies the opportunity to contribute to the development and delivery of its courses