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Programme >
Nursing Symposium
Defining Tomorrow's Nursing
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Track type: Symposium
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Duration:
90 minutes
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Location:
Academia, Auditorium
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Topic 1:
The Future of Nursing:
Today and Beyond
In view of current healthcare landscape, the nursing role is rapidly
evolving as nurses are tasked with an even wider range of healthcare
responsibilities, to care for ageing population with chronic and complex
medical conditions. Nurses are a core group of healthcare professionals who
care for patients and families in a holistic way that often goes beyond bedside
clinical care to also include social, emotional and psychological support. We know more nurses are needed for an ageing population. We need to
develop a better equipped, experienced and competent nursing workforce to
address the healthcare challenges of a rapidly ageing population, changing
disease patterns and model of care. The recommendations from Singapore Ministry of Health National
Nursing Taskforce and together with the rebranding efforts (e.g. Care To
Go Beyond campaign) since 2014 aimed to strengthen the development of Nursing
profession and also boosting the attractiveness of nursing.
As we move forward, Nursing continues to evolve. The advancement of technology
and new developments will continue to affect Nursing. Nurses need to understand
these challenges and be prepared to learn and master new skills necessary to
cope with them.
Ms Tan will share current trends and challenges in Nursing and nursing
developments in areas such as Advanced Nursing Practice, Redefining nursing
roles, Innovations, etc. and how these challenges and developments could
influence nursing today and beyond.
Topic 2:
Academic Nursing – Pushing the Boundaries of Interprofessional Education
in Healthcare
 Speaker: Prof Tan Kok Hian
The nursing mission
is integral to healthcare. To meet increasing demands in tomorrow’s healthcare,
it is essential to transform the delivery of medical and nursing care. There
is an urgent need for all healthcare staff including nursing colleagues to learn,
work and perform as a team. This requires strong interprofessional education
commitment, culture and framework in hospitals and healthcare clusters.
There is sufficient
evidence to indicate that effective interprofessional education enables
effective collaborative practice. Collaborative practice strengthens health
systems and improves health outcomes. Interprofessional education occurs when
staff from two or more professions, learn about, from and with each other to
enable effective collaboration and improve health outcomes.
The essence of
excellent inter-professional education can be achieved by building high quality
team care with a continuous quality improvement mindset. There should also be a
willingness to embrace changes in practices (new models of care, new curricula,
new collaborations etc.) and those brought about rapidly by technology e.g. use
of simulation in education and training.
Academic Nursing as a
tenet, helps greatly with interprofessional education with its emphasis on
robust evidence-based practices, a vibrant academic culture and conducive
environment for multidisciplinary research, education and a pervasive
inquisitive approach to always be better as a team.
Topic 3:
Defining Research Agenda: How to Create a Match
between Personal and Professional Interest?
The key elements to
consider in defining research agenda include an understanding of healthcare
priorities at the national, cluster and institutional levels and drawing on
clinical practice to identify areas of priority. The targeted research efforts
should also be driven by the rational pursuit of self-interest. The process
involves identifying key areas of personal and professional interests, setting
priorities and timeline, exploring funding opportunities and seeking
collaborative partnerships.
Topic 4:
It is now widely acknowledged that
monitoring the outcomes of care is an essential component of providing
healthcare. In addition to providing data on the results of care to
improve healthcare delivery, assessing outcomes can help nurses articulate their
unique contribution to patient care. Nurse sensitive outcome indicators have
been identified as outcomes that nurses directly influence in their care of
patients. This session will present an overview of nurse sensitive outcome
indicators. Examples from clinical practice will be provided, and strategies
for focusing on improving patient outcomes through the measurement of nurse
sensitive outcomes will be highlighted.
*Information is correct at time of update
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