On June 13, the 10th Beijing International Annual Webinar of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Nursing Care was held in Beijing, supported by the Beijing Administration of TCM and co-hosted by the International Cooperation Office of Guang'anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences and the Beijing TCM International Exchange and Cooperation Center. With the theme of " unleash the healing power of mind-body care in nursing ", the meeting invited 17 experts from South Korea, Malta, Thailand, New Zealand, Malaysia, Israel, Iran, Macau and China and more than 300 colleagues from 40 hospitals participated the meeting.
Lyu Wenliang, vice president of Guang'anmen Hospital, said in his speech that nursing experts at home and abroad should strengthen contact and communication, promote international scientific research exchanges and cooperation in nursing, promote the high-quality development of TCM nursing, and contribute to the construction of a human health community.
Deng Juan, deputy director, Beijing TCM International Exchange and Cooperation Center, said that the meeting has promoted the exchange and communication between nursing colleagues at home and abroad, helped Beijing TCM hospitals at all levels to establish contacts with foreign medical institutions and trained a large number of TCM nursing international talents.
Tu Zhitao, commissioner of the Beijing Administration of TCM, attended the opening ceremony. He said that the meeting should give full play to the brand advantages of "five big and five small", namely "small field, big culture; small starting point, big pattern; small technology, big health; small topic, big platform; small training, big talent ”, by cultivating talents, making good use of talents, attracting international friends to promote the traditional medicine nursing in their countries, and gradually realizing the goal of “five effects” of TCM nursing, namely case effect, guidance effect, standard effect, path effect and evaluation effect, in order to promote the steady development and internationalization of TCM nursing.
Cui Yongqiang, director of the International Cooperation Office, Guang'anmen Hospital and the project leader, delivered a keynote speech on TCM mind-body nursing: the core of Holistic and whole person approach.
Prof. Youngmi Kang, from College of Nursing Science, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea, shared "Research and practice of Hanbang (traditional Korean) Nursing"
Mr. Martin Assopardi from St. Margaret College Secondary School Verdala, Malta, shared " Science China Corner and TCM".
Prof. Che Sio-Ieng, President of Macao Nurses Association, vice-president of Macao Medical Health Federation, shared " Psychological health and coping strategy among Macao nurses in the later stage of epidemic".
Ms. Pharadee Buadeang, TCM nursing manager, Huachiew TCM Hospital, Thailand, shared "Taking care the body and mind of our patient with Traditional Chinese Medicine nursing".
Mr. Rick Binueza, Business Support Manager for the Community Health Service, Charge Nurse Manager, Auckland，New Zealand, shared " New Zealand Healthcare".
Mr. Terence Tan Yew Chin, Head of Integrative Health Information Unit, Herbal Medicine Research Centre, Malaysia, shared " Global Information Hub on Integrated Medicine (Glob in Med): Evidence based tool in patients’ education on T&CM by nurses".
Ms. Bat Zion Zidenberg, from Bnai Zion medical center, Israel, shared " Mind – body in integrative nursing care".
Assistant Prof. Masoume Arab, from Department of Medical Sciences Islamic Azad University, Iran, shared " Nurses' lived experiences of ethical values of home care nursing".
Gao Yanping, senior nurse of Guang’anmen Hospital, shared " Warm your body, warm your heart. The Electric Heating Bian-Stone ".
This meeting, carried out not only the exchange of TCM nursing technology, but also the exchange of traditional culture. In his letter to the teachers and students of the "China Corner" of St. Margaret's High School in Malta in August last year, President Xi Jinping encouraged more Maltese teachers, students and other young people to actively participate in the cultural and people-to-people exchanges between China and Malta, promote mutual learning of civilizations and carry forward the friendship between the two peoples. Mr. Martin Azzopardi, founder of the "China Corner" and a senior teacher, was specially invited to participate in this meeting to share his experience in spreading Chinese culture and TCM knowledge in schools in EU countries.
As an important window for China's public health services to communicate with other countries, Guang’anmen Hospital has many years of experience in international exchanges. It has built an international exchange platform for TCM nurses and constantly enriched the content of international exchanges of TCM, so that clinical front-line TCM nurses can have the opportunity to meet face-to-face with foreign nursing experts, communicate with them, understand the progress of western nursing and promote the scientific research results of TCM nursing, improving the international scientific research exchange ability of TCM nursing.