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The School of Nursing of the University of Navarra celebrates next Monday 11th November the VIII Lecture of the Chair María Egea. position The lecture will be given by Annette Kennedy, president of committee International Nurses (ICN), and will be entitled degree scroll "Visibility and leadership in nursing. A way for the sustainability of health systems and for quality of care". The event, which will take place at the University's Campus de Madrid (C/ Marquesado de Santa Marta, 3) at 6 p.m., requires registration in advance.

Annette Kennedy was elected President of committee International Nurses (ICN) in May 2017, an organisation representing 133 National Nurses Associations and approximately 20 million nurses worldwide. She was President of the European Federation of Nurses (EFN) from 2005 to 2007, representing 30 European National Nurses Associations.

Kennedy launched the successful Education, research and Resource Centre for the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO), the largest professional representative organisation for nurses and midwives in Ireland. On behalf of the INMO, she advocated and worked to bring nursing and midwifery work into university life, to the development of legislation for nurse prescribing, to the development of the internship advanced in Nursing and to the development of the recent Nurses and Midwives Act.

From the different organisations, she has worked to make the work of nursing professionals visible and to promote the creation of positive working practices for nurses.

The Chair María Egea for the research in Nursing was approved on 30 January 2007. It is an initiative created by the School of Nursing of the University of Navarra to channel the commitment of training and research in the field of Nursing by promoting those activities that contribute to deepening the principles that underpin it and that can generate, with their own voice, new useful knowledge to provide better care for the person, family and community.