I Международная конференция по сестринскому делу г. Астана, 22-23 июня 2018 года

I want to congratulate you for a very well organized conference.

The participants seemed to be very engaged and wanted to learn more.

a few recommendations:

1. you might want to consider to have some round table discussions with your visiting exp

Dear conference team,

The first international nursing conference of Kazakhstan was successful in initiating the next decade when investments in nursing in Kazakhstan will empower a transformation, which I believe will positively improve the lives of every citizen in this nation. The nurses of Kazakhstan have been noted by foreigners for their heart and commitment since the early days of independence. Over the last two decades, resources have been spent on building new hospitals, clinics, educational capacity, and to acquire modern instruments and medications, which in turn required tremendous adaptation and flexibility from the nursing corp. As was discussed at the conference, effectively transforming healthcare requires that nurses participate in the building of new models. Nurses will need higher technical levels, and leaders will need the highest level of scientific knowledge to become leaders in innovation; leaders to help patients as they navigate all the changes; leaders to improve the quality and safety of patient care; and leaders to remodel the educational system of nursing. Everyone was encouraged to hear about the last five years of nurses training in Finland and collaboration, on "nursing care of patients with diabetes in primary care" and " nursing care of patients with cardiac pathology in primary care", and the relationships developed and the trainings on-going in Astana and Pittsburgh, USA.

This conference made clear that the next decade will be the most exciting time for nurses to help craft the remarkable health care system they have dreamed of. This effective conference made it clear to all – that Kazakhstan’s nurses are ready, the healthcare system is ready and the healthcare administrators are ready, to invest time, money and heart into the amazing transformation of nurses which I believe will become the innovating role model and inspiration for nurses around the world. I was certainly inspired by all that I heard and saw this week. There has never been a more exciting time to collaborate with each other; there has never been a more exciting time to become a nurse; and there has a never been a more exciting opportunity to positively impact the health and wellbeing of every person on the planet.

I look forward to collaborating with Kazakhstan to see more nurses becoming trained in geriatric care, wound care, informatics, and women’s health. I am excited about the possibilities of having many nurses come to the United States for short observations as well as the continued, and hopefully expanded, program of select nurses coming for advanced degrees.

The conference was well attended and the translation services were excellent. Each speaker brought into focus an aspect of the past and future goals of a large and eager nursing corp. I was inspired and excited by the chance to meet so many nursing leaders from around the country and I look forward to meeting many of them again in the future! I am hopeful that at future conferences we will have more translators at lunches so that we may interact with them more freely. I would suggest that at the end of the conference next year, everyone be asked to fill out forms with questions about the conference with Likert scales and concluding with an open ended question about what the nurses need to hear the most, which will allow you to compare from year to year and do research on the effectiveness of the conferences, while also allowing for adaptation to the changing needs of the nurses who attend. Thank you for allowing me to participate in this historic and well organized event.

Sincerely,

Diana Hankey Underwood, MS, WHNP-BC, CRNP