The inaugural meeting of this group took place in January 2015 at the 6^th EfCCNa Congress in Valencia, Spain. Potential benefits of such a group would be to enable doctoral prepared nurse researchers to:

• meet with others adopting similar research approaches and at similar stages in their research careers
• discuss their work in progress, receive collaboration and feedback from peers
• share data, share and build skills in research methods and analysis
• discuss developments in critical care research
• build on existing research strengths and discuss collaboration in future critical care projects and grant applications
• mentor and encourage junior researchers

The group welcomes nurses who are either undertaking or who have completed a Doctoral programme in any European country. Conference is held every second year in relation to EfCCNa meetings.

Link to European federation of Critical Care Nursing association and the critical care Doctoral European Nursing group (EfCCNa/DEN)