WRTG 293 Report: Science Access, Nursing Conference 2017 Dubai

This report examines Science Access, a professional organization dedicated to fostering scientific communication and development within the nursing and related fields. The organization's vision is to be a leading resource for authors and the scientific community, with a mission to organize and disseminate scientific information globally. Science Access achieves this through international conferences, meetings, and workshops, often held in scenic locations to encourage informal collaboration. The report focuses on the "Nursing Conference 2017" held in Dubai, highlighting its theme of "Current Challenges and Innovations in Nursing" and its focus on young nursing professionals. The conference covered diverse topics, including healthcare practices, nursing ethics, and various specialized nursing areas. The author reflects on the personal learning gained from researching Science Access, including insights into professional development, research advancements, and networking opportunities within the nursing profession. References to the Science Access website and the Global Nursing Congress website are included.

Assignment

Professional organisation:
Science access is initiated with aim to fulfil goals of scientific community in terms of
exchanging ideas to facilitate research and development. Speciality of the organisation is to
facilitate fruitful communication among research scientists working in the same field and
related interdisciplinary field. This organisation facilitates dissemination of information and
ideas which can not be achieved by use of routine channels. Following is the Vision of this
organisation, “To be a destination for Authors and Scientific Community. To be market
focused in whatever we do and to lead change in publishing. Following is the Mission of this
organisation, “To organise the world’s scientific information and make it universally
accessible everyone”. Science access organises conferences, meetings and workshops
internationally. This organisation selects conference venue which suits informal community
atmosphere. Hence, it selects venues which are scenic and in isolated nature. This
organisation arranges conferences not only related to nursing profession but also related to
life sciences, biotechnology and medical and pharmaceutical field. This organisation
regularly publicizes proceedings of the conference in the journals of respective field. It also
provides information about the past, current and future conferences on their website. It also
provides all the information related to the abstract submission, registration and certificate of
attendance to the certificate (http://www.scienceaccess.org/).
Description of Conference:
Science access arranged “Nursing Conference 2017” from December 11-13 in Dubai. The
Theme of Nursing Congress 2017 is “Current Challenges and Innovations in Nursing”. In this
conference Nursing issues like education, innovations, and challenge were discussed.
Different stakeholders like healthcare scientists, professors, nurse practitioners, health care
researchers, nurse associations, registered nurses, doctors, and faculty of nursing attended this
conference. This conference helped in the modernization and advancement of nursing
education and innovations. This conference was specifically conducted for the young nursing
professionals like post-graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, trainees and junior faculty. It
was mentioned that authors of the presentations should not be senior faculty and they should
be below age of 33yrs. It gave opportunity to the young nursing professionals to acquire
knowledge about the current research and to improve their capacity as a multidisciplinary
researcher. Guidelines for the speakers, poster presenters, E posters and publishing. Venue
for this conference was holiday Inn Express Dubai Airport, Airport Road, Dubai International
Airport, Near Terminal 3 - Dubai - United Arab Emirates. Both telephone and email contact
of organisers were provided on the website. It helped participants to contact the organisers.

During Nursing Conference 2017, diverse topics were discussed like healthcare practices,
nursing laws and ethics, surgical and dental nursing, psychiatric nursing and clinical nursing
practice. During this conference, discussions related to education research, innovative
research and development research were conducted which would be helpful in the
strengthening Nurse education and Evidence-Based Practice. Importance was given to the
specific topics like Teaching, Assessment, and Learning Clinical Practice in Universities,
Simulation, Technology, and Education in Nursing, Continuing Professional Development,
Continuing Education in Nursing, Patient Safety precautions, Innovation, Academic
Leadership and Evaluation Research, Midwifery Education. This conference helped in
bringing different professionals related to nursing education on the same platform. These
professionals are interested in nursing education through implementing practice, developing
theories, and conducting research. Nursing institutes wishing to improve their educational
qualities and implement newer technologies were invited for the conference. Organisers were
confident that nursing professional went back to their hospitals with confidence of providing
quality nursing practice and armed with certified nursing procedures. Scientific sessions like
Nursing Education Nursing Management & Practitioner, Health
Care, Nursing Law, Surgical Nursing Dental Nursing,
Cardiovascular Nursing, Women Health Nursing, Midwifery Nursing
Cancer and Tumor Nursing, Mental Health Nursing, Veterinary Nursing, Travel Nurse
Pediatrics Nursing, Nursing Practice, Critical Nursing, Clinical Nursing and
Innovations in Nursing Education were conducted. During this conference, different products
and services were exhibited from different commercial and non-commercial organisations.
Personal applications:
This exercise taught me method of searching professionals organisations which are working
for the betterment of the nursing profession. I learned to scrutinize different organisations
working for augmenting knowledge of nursing professionals and working for the welfare of
mankind. This exercise is helpful in learning diverse aspects of the nursing profession. It
helped in understanding the scope and applicability of the nursing profession. I enriched with
the knowledge about the recent research and developments in the nursing profession and its
application in the nursing profession. By going through the profiles of varied nursing
professionals and organisations, I got information about the employment opportunities for me
and my colleagues. I got knowledge about the different professionals and organisations, those
are working constantly for the improvement of the nursing profession. Also, I got information
about the organisations, those are working on the filed of my interest. Hence, I can contact

them and discus about the collaborative work for the improvement of the nursing profession.
During this exercise, I understood in depth knowledge of nursing management. I understood
different hierarchy levels in the nursing profession. I came across modern, innovative and
cost-effective methods of surgeries. I got contacts of few vendors and suppliers of surgical
instruments. I got website links with demonstration of surgical procedures. I understood
importance of giving special attention to the women health nursing. I came across few good
abstracts which gave special attention for women health nursing. I learned that mental health
nursing is the most difficult and critical field of nursing. From this exercise, I learned that
mental health nursing can be effectively practiced by providing holistic care to the patients
(http://globalnursingcongress.com/).

References:
Global Nursing Congress from http://globalnursingcongress.com/ on 22.02.208
Science access. Retrieved from http://www.scienceaccess.org/ on 22.02.2018.