The nursing department at California State University, San Bernardino continues to bolster its programs through its faculty, staff and students, and also in working with international institutions.

Those efforts include international conferences such as one held last March when the department partnered with Tra Vinh University (TVU) in Vietnam to hold their first International Conference on Nursing Science. Dong Lam, of the International Collaboration and Project Promotion Office at TVU, served as the primary contact between TVU and CSUSB.

More than 100 scientists, experts and administrators from universities and colleges with training in health sciences attended the conference, which included nursing experts from CSUSB.

With the theme, “Factors Related to the Quality of Patient Care,” the conference raised important issues about the quality of patient care services and research on satisfaction.

The keynote address was given by Professor Teresa Dodd-Butera via Zoom from the CSUSB campus. “A View of Global Health” looked at public health on a global scale.

In his opening remarks, associate professor Pham Tiet Khanh, rector of TVU, said that since the two universities established a partnership in 2014, they have developed academic activities to exchange ideas in teaching and to share nursing knowledge for TVU students.

This was the third time CSUSB nursing faculty attended the conference as a result of a memorandum of understanding between the two universities. The relationship has developed into a collaborative learning experience where members can share new ideas in nursing science. It also gives researchers from other agencies the opportunity to share their work, findings and talks about their various programs while establishing partnerships.

Nguyen Bich Luu, vice president of the Vietnam Nurses Association, Nurses and Students, gave a presentation on direct health care for people in the community and medical facilities at reasonable costs to actively contribute to the prevention and control of diseases through communication and health education in order to promote healthy lifestyles.

In her lecture, Nguyen Bich Luu highlighted the role of nursing and health care in Vietnam to attract interested professionals.

CSUSB assistant professors Geraldine Fike and Dawn Blue served as guest speakers for the conference. Fike’s talk, “System and Study of Patient Satisfaction Scoring,” was a comparison and association between patient satisfaction and quality of care. Blue’s talk, “Simulation at CSUSB,” involved helping nursing schools find ways to begin a simulation program.

Other presentations at the conference included:

  • “Nurses’ Roles in Quality of Health Care Services, in the world in general and Vietnam in particular” by Nguyen Bich Luu (TVU);
  • “Information Technology in Medicine: Reducing the time between acquiring new knowledge and applying it to clinical practice” by Dr. Michael Adams (UT);
  • “Evaluating Evidence: The Electronic Health Record (EHR) – TSH’s Benefits, Usability, Acceptance and Satisfaction,” by Dr. Deborah M. Judd; and
  • A discussion on the application of heparin-pluronic heat-sensitive copolymer as an effective antiretroviral drug delivery system in combination cancer therapy, led by Nguyen Xuan Thi Diem Trinh (TVU).

The conference was also an opportunity for nursing students in the School of Medicine and Pharmacy at TVU to learn about advanced knowledge in the world, while giving them the direction for study and research in the future.

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