Intensive and Critical Care Nursing Perspectives

International Critical Care—From an Indulgence of the Best-Funded Healthcare Systems to a Core Need for the Provision of Equitable Care

“…The formation of WFCCN at the 8th WCIC followed earlier organizational discussions at the WCIC Ottawa meeting 4 years earlier and, during the interval, consultation, planning, and a survey of all known critical care nursing societies and nurse leaders in 23 countries had occurred (26). On October 30, 2001, just 6 weeks after the horrors of the 9/11 attack on America, approximately 75 critical care nursing leaders from 15 countries met to discuss the draft constitution, the name, and election process for inaugural executive of WFCCN (27). Eight countries with critical care nursing societies formally joined as members of the first WFCCN Council: Australia, Britain, Canada, Denmark, Hong Kong, New Zealand, the Philippines, and South Korea.…”