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RCN International Centenary Conference Book of Abstracts RCN International Centenary Conference Book of abstracts 22 and 23 November 2016 QEII Centre, London SW1P 3EE Sponsored by 2 Contents Main hall chair biographies 4 Wednesday 23 November 2016 66 Keynote lectures 66 Tuesday 22 November 2016 6 Keynote lectures 6 Wednesday 23 November 2016 68 Concurrent session 3 68 Theme: Society, communities, relationships 68 Tuesday 22 November 2016 8 Theme: Society, communities, relationships 70 Concurrent session 1 8 Theme: Society, communities, relationships 71 Theme: Society, communities, relationships 8 Theme: Technology and innovation 73 Theme: Society, communities, relationships 11 Theme: Knowledge for change and improvement 75 Theme: Technology and innovation 14 Theme: Knowledge for change and improvement 75 Theme: Technology and innovation 17 Theme: Knowledge for change and improvement 77 Theme: Conflicts, disaster and recovery 20 Theme: Knowledge for change and improvement 78 Theme: Conflicts, disaster and recovery 22 Theme: Knowledge for change and improvement 80 Theme: Populations, health and economic growth 25 Theme: Knowledge for change and improvement 82 Theme: Populations, health and economic growth 28 Theme: Knowledge for change and improvement 34 Theme: Knowledge for change and improvement 37 Wednesday 23 November 2016 84 Concurrent session 4 84 Theme: Societies, communities, relationships 84 Tuesday 22 November 2016 40 Theme: Societies, communities, relationships 87 Concurrent session 2 40 Theme: Society, communities, relationships 89 Theme: Society, communities, relationships 40 Theme: Technology and innovation 91 Theme: Society, communities, relationships 42 Theme: Technology and innovation 94 Theme: Technology and innovation 44 Theme: RCN Session 96 Theme: Professional development 46 Theme: Knowledge for change and improvement 98 Theme: Conflicts, disaster and recovery 47 Theme: Knowledge for change and improvement 101 Theme: Populations, health and economic growth 51 Theme: Knowledge for change and improvement 104 Theme: Populations, health and economic growth 53 Theme: Knowledge for change and improvement 108 Theme: Knowledge for change and improvement 56 Theme: Knowledge for change and improvement 110 Theme: Knowledge for change and improvement 58 Theme: Knowledge for change and improvement 61 Theme: Knowledge for change and improvement 63 Posters 114 Theme: Social event presentation 64 3 Main hall chair biographies Cecilia Anim, RCN President Christine Hancock, Director, C3 Cecilia Anim was elected President of the RCN in 2015, Collaborating for Health, UK having been a member for over 30 years, elected deputy President in 2010 and re-elected to the role in 2012. She Christine Hancock is the founder of C3 Collaborating for was also an RCN steward for 19 years and a health and Health, a global charity working to prevent chronic disease. safety representative for 17 years. She is also a member She is an experienced nurse and NHS manager. She was of the RCN’s Council Executive Team, Membership and CEO/general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing Representation Committee, International Committee, Ethics and then president of the International Council of Nurses, Committee and Awards Panel. visiting nurses in 50 countries. She has been a governor of De Montfort University and is a trustee of a charity for She has worked tirelessly supporting members in three homeless people. Christine has recently become a member central London NHS trusts. of the NHS Healthy Workforce Advisory Board, helping to Cecilia was also the staff-side secretary working in create a step change in the health of the 1.2 million NHS partnership with other unions, and secretary of her local workforce. RCN branch for 10 years. She then chaired the new branch and served on the London board before taking up the position of deputy president. In addition to these responsibilities, Cecilia previously served on the Ethics Forum Steering Committee and was also a member on the RCN Menopause Nurses Steering Group. Cecilia still coordinates the Network Group in London. In recognition of Cecilia’s contribution, she and was awarded the RCN Certificate of Merit for outstanding service to members. Cecilia works as a clinical nurse specialist in sexual and reproductive health at the Margaret Pyke Centre in London and received a long service award for over 30 year’s commitment to the NHS. Cecilia specialises in family planning and aspects of women’s health and has a particular interest in menopause and public health issues. Cecilia was awarded the Bevan award for Health and Wellbeing in 2013 and the Wise Woman of the Year Award in 2014. In 2015 Cecilia had the great honour of being receiving the United Nations African Women of Excellence award. This award celebrates and recognises the contribution of African Women or women of African descent have made to political, social and economic independence. Cecilia originally trained as a midwife in Ghana, where she worked before moving to the UK and qualifying as a nurse in 1977. Cecilia is also actively involved in the activities of her local church, where she is a member of the PCC and also arranges flowers. Furthermore, she is also Chair of Governors of her local primary school. 4 TUESDAY PROGRAMME 5 Tuesday 22 November 2016 - ConcurrentKeynote lectures session 2 Tuesday 22 November 2016 Keynote lectures 9.45 – 10.30am 11.15am – 12noon Keynote lecture 1: Title to follow Keynote lecture 2: An exciting Room Churchill Auditorium (main hall) future for nurses and nursing Speaker James Campbell, Director, Health Workforce, Room Churchill Auditorium (main hall) World Health Organization, UK Speaker Maureen Bisognano, President Emerita and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Biography Improvement, USA Jim Campbell is the Director of the Health Workforce Department at the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Executive Director of the Global Health Workforce Summary Alliance (GHWA). Prior to taking on this role in July 2014, Mr Innovation and improvement will be the tools for change Campbell was the Director of the Instituto de Cooperación for today’s nurses. In this session we will look to domestic Social Integrare (ICS Integrare), a not-for-profit research and international examples of nurses leading health care institute in Barcelona, Spain where he worked for eight transformations, and look to the next decades of change. years. Abstract He has worked as a specialist researcher/adviser on In today’s quickly changing and evolving health and health Human Resources for Health for governments, UN agencies care environment, front line teams, often led by nurses, play and philanthropic foundations, including WHO, GHWA, a crucial role in delivering the best possible care. In this UNFPA, World Bank, UK DFID, Norad and BMGF. Examples presentation we will address recent nurse-driven changes of this work include the Global Code of Practice on the in care, as well as future methods of change, and areas that International Recruitment of Health Personnel (2010), WHO should be explored. Special emphasis will be put on leading policy recommendations on Increasing access to health multigenerational, multi-professional, and multi-ethnic workers in remote and rural areas through improved retention teams, as well as addressing the changing expectations of (2010), A Universal Truth: No Health Without a Workforce patients, especially those of the younger generations. published at the Third Global Forum on HRH in Recife, Brazil (2013) and the State of the World’s Midwifery 2014 Intended learning outcomes report. • Describe the role nurses have played in transforming health care. • Identify ways nurses will improve health and care in the future. • Describe the key roles in leading multi-professional, multigenerational, and multi-ethnic teams. Reading list Bisognano M, Schummers D. Flipping healthcare. BMJ. 2014 Oct 3:349 Bisognano M, Kenney C. Pursuing the Triple Aim, Seven Innovators Show the Way to Better Care, Better Health, and Lower Costs. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass A Wiley Imprint; 2012 Biography Maureen Bisognano, President Emerita and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), previously served as IHI’s President and CEO for five years, after serving as Executive Vice President and COO for 15 years. Ms Bisognano advises health care leaders around the world, is a frequent speaker at major health care conferences on quality improvement, and is a tireless advocate for change. 6 TuesdayTuesday 22 November 22 November 2016 2016 - Concurrent - Keynote session lectures 2 She is also an Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and serves on the boards of the Commonwealth Fund, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, and ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value. 12noon – 12.45pm Keynote lecture 3: Education and eliminating violence against women Room Churchill Auditorium (main hall) Speaker Dr Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Under Secretary-General and Executive Director, UN Women, USA 7 Tuesday 22 November 2016 - Concurrent session 21 Tuesday 22 November 2016 Concurrent session 1 Theme: Society, communities, understanding of the embodied experiences of our patients and our own embodiment as nurses. The paper proposes a relationships corporeal (re)turn to nursing practice, one that recognises the lived embodied experience of the patient and the embodied skill and knowledge of the nurse. It examines how 2 – 2.30pm such a corporeal (re)turn is important for contemporary person-centred practice, research and education, and for 1.1.1 Embodied practice: the rediscovery of
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