CUHK Nursing Specialist Awarded Cardiac Nursing Awards

Prof. Chair Sek-ying from the Nethersole School of Nursing has been awarded this year's First Prize of Cardiac Nursing Award in 'Excellence or Innovation in Acute or Critical Care' and Third Prize in 'Excellence or Innovation in Cardiac Intervention or Surgery'. These inaugural awards were co-organized by the British Journal of Cardiac Nursing and the British Association for Nursing in Cardiovascular Care.

Prof. Chair was honoured for her contributions to evidence-based research with the purpose of improving patient care and well-being. Her research proved that nurses can be of an independent and crucial role in promoting the physical comfort of the patients and thus, in turn, speeding up recovery and enhancing therapy.

'A nurse can play a more pro-active and positive role in promoting patient are. They take care of the patients from a wholistic approach. One of my studies looked into the back pain of patients after coronary angiography. Conventionally, post surgery care has been mainly guided by physician discretion rather than based on empirical knowledge. And the current practice protocol restricts patients for up to 24-hour bed rest. My research proved that nursing intervention,in this case helping the patients to change positions in bed, will help decrease patients' discomfort due to prolong bed rest without causing any increase in complications as originally believed,' said Prof. Chair. She hopes that with more quality clinical research, nursing specialists can contribute more to promoting patients' well-being.