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Conducting The Second JNC
International Nursing Conference“The Less Traveled Road: Search for New Realities"on April 23 -24, 2008
at MovenPick Hotel/ Dead Sea in collaboration with the University of
Jordan, King Hussein Cancer Center and Royal Medical Services.
The conference was conducted within the Jordanian
Nursing Council strategy to promote nursing services to meet the current
challenges especially in education, practice and scientific research.
Participants from 18 different countries attended
the conference; United State of America, United Kingdom, Sweden, South
Africa, Spain, Australia, India, Cyprus, Brunei, Thailand, Iraq, Egypt,
Sudan, Syria, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Jordan.
One
hundred and thirty (130) presented papers discussed different nursing
fields, such as practice, research, health systems, beside nursing
challenges. Four plenary sessions were conducted during the conference,
where keynotes from USA and South Africa concentrated on conference
themes and discussed deferent's ways for nurses to face nursing
challenges and to improve their competencies in order to reach
excellence and to provide quality services.
Three
specialized pre-workshops were conducted at the conference partner's
institutions; these workshops discussed important nursing issues mainly
integrating theory and practice in nursing education through
experiential learning such as educational drama and case
methodology.
The
conference recommendations were the following:
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Evidence-based studies should be enhanced
2- Research
studies should be focused on nursing issues with clarification of the
intersection with other professions
3-Future nursing conferences are called to invite other
health care professionals to increase mutual understanding and
collaboration
4-Professional nursing bodies and professionals should
make better utilization of the media for implementing their expanded
roles in different areas of practice.
5-Nursing curricula need to be revisited and be vibrant
and responsive to global challenges.
6-Efforts need to be directed at acquainting
professional nurses, nurse educators and researchers with the MDGs to
contribute to the sustainable development.
7-Ethico-legal issues should receive more professional
attention and introduced early in educational curricula at all
educational levels.
8-Qualified preceptors should be utilized to strengthen
student competences to bridge the gap between theory and practice
9-Capacity-building programs for nurse managers and
educators addressing best practices in management and leadership should
be conducted.
10-Nurses should be influential in decision-making process while
addressing various health and education policies.
11-Collaboration and
exchange programs at the regional level. |
