Sumnmary of recommendations of the Telenurse Prague meeting

It is recommended:

•that ICN establishes an international panel of experts

•that the international panel is composed of experts appointed by the ICN program director of ICNP

•that the international panel regularly addresses incoming comments upon ICNP

•that comments on ICNP are processed by the international panel in a transparent and well-defined manner

•that decisions by the international panel are taken according to clearly definied decision procedures

•that decisions are guided by the overall aim of maintaining ICNP as a regularly updated unifying framework or reference terminology for nursing

ICN

ICNPExpert Panel

Providers

Practitioners

Res

earc

hersTelenurse Consortium

ICN

Researchers

Practitioners

Providers

ICNPExpert Panel

Providers

Practitioners

Res

earc

hersTelenurse Consortium

Telenurse User Group(s)

ICN

Researchers

Practitioners

Providers

ICNPExpert Panel

Providers

Practitioners

Res

earc

hersTelenurse Consortium

FUGUE

Telenurse User Group(s)

FUGUE

Federation ofUserGroups inUnitedEurope

ICN

CEEUser

GroupsSwiss

User GroupGerman

User Group

Researchers

Practitioners

Providers

ICNPExpert Panel

Providers

Practitioners

Res

earc

hersTelenurse Consortium

FUGUE

Telenurse User Group(s)

FUGUE

Federation ofUserGroups inUnitedEurope

ICN

CEEUser

GroupsSwiss

User GroupGerman

User Group

FUGUE

Researchers

Practitioners

Providers

FUGUE

Federation ofUserGroups inUnitedEurope

ICNPExpert Panel

Providers

Practitioners

Res

earc

hers

FUGUE is open to:

groups, e.g.national user groups

individuals, e.g.-practitioners-providers-researchers-teachers

Telenurse Consortium

What does FUGUE mean ?

Fugue [fju:g] =

a composition in which a short melody is

introduced by one part and successively taken up by others and developed by interweaving the parts

Overall Objective of FUGUE:

Promotion of ICNP as

Unifying Framework/Standard Reference Terminology

for Nursing in Europe.

Specific Goal of FUGUE:

Demonstrations of comparability between nursing classification systems

through a single interface to ICNP instead of multiple ad hoc interfaces to each other.

Recommendations of the Telenurse Prague meeting

It is recommended:

•that ICN establishes an international body of experts in order to maintain the ICNP•that this international body is composed of experts appointed by either the national nurses associations in liason with the ICN or the ICN program director of ICNP taking into account geographical and professional concerns.•that this international body regularly address incoming comments upon the ICNPThese comments may concern both the (re-) organisation of existing terms and the addition of new terms.•that comments are processed by this international body in a transparent manner according to a well-defined deadlines, including deadlines for responses to comments.•that decisions by this international body are taken according to clearly definied decision procedure. Decisions are be based upon either consensus (major changes) or voting procedures (minor changes)•that decisions regarding both the (re-)organisation of existing terms and the addition of new terms are guided by the overall aim of maintainig ICNP as a regularly updated unifying framework or reference terminology allowing comparability between systems through a single interface to ICNP instead of multiple ad hoc interfaces to each other