The Symposium which is going to be celebrated in Granada is an opportunity for community nursing researchers from across the world to meet. At the same time, it offers a unique opportunity for english-speaking and Latin-American nurses to meet and address together two key subjects of great concern for them: long term conditions and cultural diversity
ICCHNR was registered as a charity in 1995 to achieve aims as to demonstrate the value of community health care nursing research for improving the quality of health care, advancing and sharing knowledge of community health care nursing practice through research, to increase personal commitment by community nurses to evidence based practice, to encourage the appropriate use of research for community nursing, to promote awareness of the contribution of community health care nursing to healthy public policies and alliances.
GENERAL AIM
To promote the discussion, collaboration and networking opportunities among community nurses who develop research or implement their results into practice, with particular reference to society in transition: transition in lifespan, in healthcare provision, in nursing roles, in geographical and political places and in organizations.
SPECIFIC AIMS
To analyze the reciprocal impact of community nursing research and long term care policies.
To compare diverse international experiences about long term care nursing services implementation and evaluation.
To analyze the research outcomes about cultural diversity and its implications for Community Nursing.
To debate about research and development of nursing care culturally competent in society in transition.
Debate subjects presented by two speakers who discuss about it.
Poster sessions: 5 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for discussion.
The emphasis of the symposium is on debate and discussion. Over the two days expert researchers will present and critique their research and discuss with the audience the implications of the findings for practice and future research.