Dr Karen Bjøro, RN, MSN, PhD, is past Vice President of the Norwegian Nurses organisation (2011-2019), and a Member of the Steering Committee (2-16 to date) and a national representative (2011 to date) of the European Forum for National Nurses and Midwives Associations (2016 to date). She was President (2017-2019) and Board Member (2015-2017) of the European Nursing Research Foundation and has served as a National Representative of the European Federation of Nurses and a Board member of the Nordic Nurses Federation.