Dear friends, colleagues, contributors, and guests from Shanghai and around the world,
Welcome to the 7th Annual Shanghai International Nursing Forum.
歡迎來自世界各地參加第七屆上海國際護理論壇的朋友們Ⓜ️👧！
One of the greatest challenges facing health services and health education today is that of elder care. With the tremendous strides that have been made in medical technology and treatments in the past 50 years, the life expectancy of citizens — not only in China, but around the world — has soared. For this, we are all deeply grateful, yet the advancement has brought new challenges with it. Excellent geriatric health care has unique elements that must be taken into account if we wish to serve our communities well. These elements have to do not only with treatment, but with elder-caregiver relationships, and with caring and friendly communication. It's one thing to promote high-quality elder care in the classroom, another to produce good geriatric nursing research, and yet another to give good care to real patients.
That, then, is the reason for this year's Forum theme: bringing theory to practice in geriatric care. It is our desire to not only consider the theoretical approaches to serving the elderly as nurses, but to work together to uncover new avenues for real, practical nursing care. Today, we want to explore current theories and the state of research on geriatric care, but we want to do so with an eye toward the nursing home, toward the long-term care facility, and toward the hospitals where we, as nurses, are actually serving geriatric patients. Today, we want to step out of the ivory tower of the medical university — even the research university — and into the lives of the elderly, who are looking to us. Yes, they do rely on their doctors, but it is their nurses whom they see and talk with most. It is on us, as their nurses, that the greatest burden of care falls, and so we must ensure that we are fully equipped to meet the healthcare challenges that they are facing.
We must reject the idea that a nursing home or a geriatric facility is a second-class facility for second-class nurses. Far from it. The residents there may be our own parents or grandparents.
They are the generation that went before us, that fought for us and provided for us. It is only right that we, their nurses and nurse leaders, ensure that the standard of care reflects the very best that international research has discovered. That is the worthy goal that we will be exploring today.
如今健康服務和健康教育面臨的最大挑戰之一是老年護理。隨著過去五十年來醫療技術和治療方面取得的巨大進步，人們的壽命不僅在中國乃至世界各地都有所延長。為此，我們非常高興，然而進步也帶來了新的挑戰。優秀的老年健康護理有獨特的元素🧴❤️，如果我們希望為我們的社區服務🚣🏼，就必須加以考慮👩🏽🎤。這些要素不僅僅是治療，而且要與老年人有著良好關系以及與他們之間建立關愛和友愛地溝通⚓️。在課堂上推廣高質量的老年護理是一方面，另一個是發掘好的老年護理研究內容🕶，其次是對真正的病人給予很好的照顧🤽🏽♀️。
基於此🧔🏼♂️，今年論壇的的主題是🌉：彌合老年護理中理論和臨床實踐間的差距👨🏽🦲。我們希望不僅考慮將老年人作為護士服務的理論方法，而且共同努力，為實際護理提供新的途徑🤾🏽♀️。現在，我們想探討現有的老年護理研究的理論和現狀𓀐，但我們這樣做，是著眼於養老院😹，著眼於長期護理機構，以及主要為老年人服務的老年醫院。今天，我們想走出醫高德的象牙塔🙎🏿，甚至走出研究型大學，進入那些期待我們這麽做的老年人家中。是的1️⃣，那些老年人依靠醫生⛑️，但是他們看到最多的和溝通最多的都是護士。作為護士🪘🧝🏼♂️，護理人員最大的重擔落在我們身上🪚🈸，所以我們必須確保我們有能力應對他們所面臨的醫療保健挑戰。
我們必須摒棄這樣的想法，即養老院或老人機構是二流護士呆著的二流機構。這是大錯特錯的🕑。那裏的居民可能是我們自己的父母或祖父母。他們是我們的上一代人，他們為了我們辛苦付出、照顧我們🌆。我們能做的就是我們護士👨🏽🦲、護理領導層確保護理水平，反映出國際研究發現的最佳狀態💘。這是我們今天為之探索的價值與意義🥘。