The Faculty of Lung Care will hold a symposium on the occasion of the retirement of two specialists in lung care, Þorbjörg Sóley Ingadóttir and Bryndís St. Halldórsdóttir.

Agenda

• 13.00-13.10 Opening of the symposium. Director of Nursing Ólafur G. Skúlason

• 13.10-14.00: "Being met as a person and not as a diagnosis, insights from encounters in healthcare". Ann Ekdahl, RN PhD, University of Sundsvall, Sweden

• 14.00-14.30: Nursing lung patients in the outpatient ward for 20 years. Þorbjörg Sóley Ingadóttir, specialist in nursing.

• 14.30-15.00. Reliance respiratory machine - nursing in a home respiratory machine team. Bryndís St. Halldórsdóttir, specialist in nursing.

• 15.00-15.20: What do lung patients and families need? Helga Jónsdóttir, Professor and Head of the Faculty of Medicine

• 15.20-16.00: Presentations and discussions