The round table was held aimed at disseminating the “Report on recommendations for collaboration structures and processes development between universities and healthcare institutions” that concerns the collaboration to support the implementation of evidence-based nursing
On November 4, 2021, a round table was held aimed at disseminating the “Report on recommendations for collaboration structures and processes development between universities and healthcare institutions” that concerns the collaboration to support the implementation of evidence-based nursing.
During the roundtable, Hanna Hopia, JAMK University of Applied Sciences, Finland, and Inesh Meermanova, Karaganda Medical University, Kazakhstan, presented the Best international practices fostering Evidence-based Nursing (EBN) through collaboration between academic and healthcare – literature review. Also, there was a presentation of the Best and current practices for collaboration structures and processes development between universities and healthcare, which were identified during the spring benchmarking conducted within the framework of the AccelEd project. These practices were presented by Johanna Heikkila, Senior Advisor, JAMK University of Applied Sciences, Finland, and Feruza Saduyeva, Karaganda Medical University, Kazakhstan. Professor of the Karaganda Medical University Bauyrzhan Omarkulov presented “Recommendations for collaboration structures and processes development between universities and healthcare institutions in nursing”.
The project coordinator, Dean of the Faculty of Nursing of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Jūratė Macijauskienė, noted the importance of these recommendations for the development of evidence-based nursing in Kazakhstan. After that, the participants had the opportunity to discuss in groups the steps to implement these recommendations in the context of medical universities and health care institutions. It is important to note that this round table was attended by over 60 representatives of medical universities and practical health care.
Recommendations for the development of structures and processes for cooperation between universities and health care institutions in the field of nursing are presented below.
For the further development of the collaboration in nursing between Medical Universities and Health Care Institutions, it is recommended to:
- identify the key structures and core processes of selecting new topics for nursing clinical guidelines on a regional level and implementing the existing ones;
- further agree on ways to employ the resources of the Center of Nursing Excellence of Kazakhstan (CNE) in the collaborative development of nursing;
- create a structure and/or process for identifying and sharing research and development needs/topics in nursing;
- jointly prioritize and document the regional development areas for nursing relating to the current regional health problems of the citizens, and
- collaboratively set regional long-term goals for developing evidence-based nursing that will enable positive health-related outcomes for the citizens.
