Development of a European Curriculum for Family and Community Nurses

World Health Organization (WHO) reports emphasize the need to implement new healthcare models centred on Primary Health Care and in this context both WHO and EU recommendations identify the Family and Community Nurse (FCN) as a key actor. However, despite WHO recommendations, there is a lack of standardized Professional Profile for FCN at EU level in the main EU reference tools and classifications. In the effort to address this gap, the ENhANCE (EuropeaN curriculum for fAmily aNd Community nursE) project aims to elaborate a European Professional Profile for FCNs, along with a European Curriculum to become FCN. In this contribution, the Curriculum development process is described. This encompassed four main steps: (1) studying the current educational provision for FCN in Europe, (2) profiling FCN, (3) developing the actual European Curriculum, and (4) instantiating the EU Curriculum into national curricula and validating such localizations through piloting. The preliminary evaluation results of the Professional Profile, the European Curriculum, as well as the national curricula are presented. In the Discussion section, the main criticalities, challenges, as well as strong points are highlighted.