1. ICNP-  -cz and Czech Nursing Jana Marečková, Palacký University, Olomouc Jan Vejvalka, Charles University, Prague

2. (Pre-) History fall 1997 - Ioana Moisil, first contacts with ICNP, seek for partners in nursing spring 1999 - Ioana insists, promises a trip to Maribor summer 1999 - first (0-th) draft translation of ICNP-  into Czech fall 1999 - conference in Maribor

3. ICNP-  -cz-0.1 fall 1999 - presentation to the Min of Health Council for Nursing fall 1999 - project proposal for Charles University winter 1999 - bi-lingual representation of ICNP-  -cz- 0.1 (Excel, printed form) spring 2000 - new search for partners spring 2000 - project proposal for Czech Universities’ Development Fund summer 2000 - Conference in Sibiu, translation finished

4. Czech Nursing - University Programmes Bachelor degree - 6 faculties (Prague, Olomouc, Brno, Plzeň, České Budějovice) Master degree - Olomouc (programmes in education and in management) Doctor degree - none

5. Czech Nursing - Professional Organizations Czech Association of Nursing - member of ICN Union of Nursing Czech Midwives’ Accociation Common meeting of these three organizations in May 2000, provisional Council for Nursing Research and Education (faculty staff, college staff, practicing nurses) - ambition to become an advisory board to Min of Edu and Min of Health AIM - TO TRANSFORM LEGISLATION TOWARDS TRANSPARENT PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCES

6. ICNP-  -cz-0.1 its objective (similarly to this version of classification itself) is 1. to allow Czech nursing community to take part in the discussion on concepts and definitions included in this version of ICNP classification and 2. to open a discussion on Czech terms used for translation.

7. ICNP-  -cz - next steps need for “sustainable development” DISSEMINATION & DEVELOPMENT generating projects to move further co-operation with Slovakia winter 2000 - tools for D&D spring 2001 - project for Min of Health (recent change of attitude towards informatics and towards nursing) search for funding – generating projects