SATELLITE NURSING SYMPOSIUM - 17.10.2026

Sr. Nurse Velina Nedyalkova, Military Medical Academy

Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to have the honor of inviting you to the Satellite Nursing Symposium at the 33rd National Neurosurgery Conference at Park Hotel Pirin, Sandanski, where we will have the opportunity to share our challenges and exchange experience and ideas in a pleasant and relaxing setting.

In a time of rapidly developing technologies, artificial intelligence, and digitization of work processes, our role remains leading and essential in the treatment of neurosurgical patients. We face significant challenges in healthcare, such as staff shortages, professional burnout, and declining interest in the profession, which affect society not only in Bulgaria but worldwide.

This inspired us to choose the current symposium topic: “The Nurse as an Active Participant in the Treatment of Neurosurgical Patients”. With this topic, we aim to show that despite technological progress and digitization, the good performance of our work remains key to treatment, and our high human and professional qualities are an integral part of the favorable outcome of every disease. In addition, it will be a pleasure forus if you also take part in the scientific program with your own work, so that the discussion is active and meaningful. I believe we will have a wonderful time!

We look forward to welcoming you!

17.10.2026, 08:30 – 12:00

Satellite Nursing Symposium

Pirin Hall

08:30 – 08:40

Opening

Sr. Nurse V. Nedyalkova

08:40 – 09:30

Working presentations and discussion

09:30 – 10:00

Coffee break

10:00 – 12:00
      Discussion panel
    

How can I participate with a presentation?

We invite nurses and healthcare professionals to present practical experience, clinical cases, and good practices from everyday work.

1

Submit an abstract by 31.08.2026

Prepare a short abstract of your presentation, up to 300 words with the recommended structure: introduction, aim, method, result, and conclusion, and send it as text by email to nurse@neurosurgeryconference.bg, adding before the text first name, last name, city, and workplace, as well as the selected topic area from the list below.

Operating room Clinical practice Neurointensive care unit Social and ethical cases

2

Submit your presentation by 15.10.2026

After approval, prepare a presentation in .pdf or .pptx format, preferably up to 10 slides, and send it to nurse@neurosurgeryconference.bg.

3

Present your report on 17.10.2026

Presentation time is between 5 and 7 minutes, with time planned for discussion.

Work in the operating room

Instrumentation, technologies, and arrangement of the surgical field

Work in the clinic

Cranial and spinal operations, trauma patients, work with children, hospital-acquired infections

Neurointensive care unit

Specific care, nutrition, dressings and logistics

Daily challenges

Difficult patients, social cases, ethical and legal situations