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Upcoming conferences
►11-13 May 2010 - The Sage Gateshead, Newcastle Gateshead, North East England International Nursing Research Conference
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Yang, Uffindell at SRRSH…
Joanna Yang, Nurse Practitioner and Stroke Program Coordinator, and Dr. Sarah Uffindell, Stroke Program Director, both of Loma Linda University Medical Center, spoke about stroke and Stroke Center development at the 4th Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital’s (SRRSH) Academic Week. SRRSH is a Joint Commission International (JCI) accredited hospital and aims at becoming the first JCI accredited Stroke Center in China.
Ms. Yang first introduced the idea of an accredited Stroke Center to SRRSH in May, 2008 and was duly impressed by the expressed interest following her presentation in May, 2008. Over the last year and half, she has had frequent communication with Rao Xiuhua, RN, APN, Stroke Center Coordinator at SRRSH about issues pertaining to the development of the Stroke Center and also shared protocols and order sets developed here in LLUMC. Also during this visit, Ms Yang and Dr. Uffindell had the opportunity to sit with the stroke team and with Prof. Hu Xingyue, Director of Neurology department and of the Stroke Center program and were able to walk them through JCI’s detailed menu requirements for setting up the Center’s infrastructure.
It’s amazing to see how much they’ve done since my last visit, says Ms Yang. They have developed a stroke team, started giving tissue plasminogen activator to patients, developed order sets as well as patient education materials. It’s great to see the changes that Stroke Center development may bring to SRRSH and how it could potentially impact stroke care in China.
In a multidisciplinary team meeting, the SRRSH Stroke team conducted a Stroke drill. Ms Yang offered the team her observations as well as suggestions and recommendations for improving the stroke drill process. Ms. Yang believes the trip to SRRSH was useful in setting the foundation for the development of a Stroke Center and is well worth the trip.
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Educating Nurses at the Gimbie Adventist Hospital
/ by Rebecca Carlton
Despite an influx of nursing schools in the region, Gimbie Hospital has had difficulties finding proficient nurses to staff the wards. We are aware that the quality of care here is only as good as the people providing it. With that in mind, Adventist Health International (AHI) opened a nursing school next to the hospital in 2007 to train nurses in the way we think they should practice. read more...
from Cameroon...
LLU nurses hold free clinic in Buea Adventist clinic and Hospital in Cameroon /by Jan Nick, RN
It all started when we boarded Swiss Air en route to Douala, Cameroon. We arrived at 10 pm surprised at the blast of warm air awaiting us in the airport terminal. Nine students and two nursing faculty traveled during Spring break 2009 to Africa with the objective of participating in a week long health clinic at Buea Adventist Clinic and Hospital. read more...
As they say goodbye...
"More than a hundred clinicians from SRRSH have come to Loma Linda for training before me and now having been here myself gives me a better understanding and appreciation for the culture of caring that we all bring to SRRSH."-- Zhu (May) HongFang, Nurse Manager, Orthopaedic unit at SRRSH,
"I find the library orientation to be very useful and having access to full-text databases during our 2 months training gave an added dimension to our clinical experience here in LLU. I can only imagine how much better my nursing practice would be if I had the same ready access to these resources in my hospital in China. "-- Liang (Maggie) Yuqin, Nurse Manager, SICU, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine
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