CU NURSING 360 Issue 22 JUNE 2022

HIGHLIGHTS & UPDATES

JUNE 2022

GRANTS & AWARDS

RESEARCH GRANTS & DONATIONS

Our School received three new research grants and one private donation in the past two months with a total amount of about HKD5 million.

Funding Source	Key Investigator	Project Title
Health and Medical Research Fund (HMRF)	Prof. Wai Tong CHIEN	An evaluation of the effectiveness of an acceptance-based adherence therapy for people with recent-onset psychosis: A randomised controlled trial
Health and Medical Research Fund (HMRF)	Prof. Helen CHAN	A multidisciplinary-led personalised mHealth-supported coach for reducing midlife stroke risk
Health and Medical Research Fund (HMRF)	Prof. Jojo WONG	Effects of smartphone-based chatbot intervention to increase influenza and COVID-19 vaccine uptake among South Asians: A wait-list randomised controlled trial
Private donation	Prof. Helen CHAN	Development of AI and real-time interactive app-based platform for tracking of longitudinal happiness and healthy aging outcomes of the aging population

AWARDS & HONOURS


	In the Faculty's Teachers’ and Students’ Awards Presentation Ceremony 2022 held on 11 June, our School colleagues Prof. Jojo WONG, Dr. Philip HUNG, Dr. Bernice LAW, Mr. Simon LAM, and Mr. Ivan FUNG were presented with Teacher of the Year Awards. In addition, 136 undergraduate students of our School were presented with scholarships and awards for their outstanding performance and achievements in different arenas. Prof. Winnie SO was selected as a Winner of the 2022 WHO Western Pacific Innovation Challenge. The research paper of our PhD in Nursing graduate Dr. Surui LIANG has been recognised by Wiley as a Top Cited Article in the Nursing in Critical Care Journal in 2020/21. PhD in Nursing Year 2 students Tenaw Gualu MELESSE and Thi Khanh NGUYEN received the HKSAR Government Scholarship Fund 2021/22 – Reaching Out Awards, respectively.

RESEARCH CENTRES

COCHRANE HONG KONG

Since April, a total of 30 Cochrane Reviews (both abstracts and plain language summaries [PLS]) were translated into Simplified Chinese and the PLS of two additional Cochrane Reviews were translated into Traditional Chinese. All these translations are accessible through the Cochrane Library. Also, the Simplified and Traditional Chinese translations are available on the websites of China Cochrane Network and Cochrane Hong Kong, respectively. Our translation team held two Zoom meetings for members to sharpen their skills on translation and editing through experience sharing, and to reach a consensus regarding consistency in using certain terminologies, prepositions, abbreviations and punctuations, thereby further improving the quality of translation.

We also launched our very first Knowledge Translation Awards this year to encourage and promote the dissemination and application of Cochrane evidence in Hong Kong and beyond.

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ASIA-PACIFIC GENOMIC AND GENETIC NURSING CENTRE


	The Centre has commenced a project about the use of decision aids to enhance the positive effects of genetic counselling. It involved the conduct of a systematic review to examine the impacts of decision aids on reducing decisional conflicts of genetic counselees in genetic testing, and to explore other related outcomes. In addition, the manuscript of our recent systematic review on genetic susceptibility in pneumoconiosis among Chinese population has been accepted for publication in an international refereed journal.

The ongoing collaborative research project with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University on brain-age models for predicting Alzheimer’s Disease is making good progress. The cross-institutional research team (as shown in the photo) has recently held a meeting to discuss actions for further analysing the data from large public datasets to facilitate better construction of the brain-age models.

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ACTIVITY HIGHLIGHTS

13th International Nursing Conference

At the 13th International Nursing Conference (INC) held on 9–10 April 2022 via Zoom, Prof. Ken HO was invited as a plenary speaker to share his innovative ideas on how to support the well-being of migrant domestic workers from a global health equity perspective.

WHO Innovation Forum

At the 2022 WHO Innovation Forum held on 28–29 April via Zoom, Prof. Winnie SO was invited to share her winning entry for the WHO Western Pacific Innovation Challenge and discuss innovative strategies to eliminate cervical cancer in a global context.

International Nurses' Day Conference

Our School co-organised the International Nurses' Day Conference 2022 with five overseas universities on 11–12 May via Zoom. Prof. Ka Ming CHOW and Prof. Ho Yu CHENG were invited as guest speakers to share their experiences in adopting innovative strategies to tackle teaching and learning challenges during the pandemic in Hong Kong.

Chung Chi College Photo Day

The Chung Chi College Photo Day 2022 was held on 17 May. Our graduating students, together with their teachers, have taken photos at the Chung Chi College Chapel to celebrate the Chung Chi nursing students’ graduation and create fond lifetime memories.

World No Tobacco Day Promotion

In support of the WHO’s annual World No Tobacco Day on 31 May, our School set up a lunchtime flash-mob promotional booth to call for greater attention to the harms of tobacco. Our staff and students also actively participated in the Smoke-free Sportswear Day to promote a smoke-free, healthy lifestyle with a short run.

@ The Nethersole School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong