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Abstract
This symposium explores three foundational pillars essential for advancing nursing practice in primary care: collaboration, cultivation and care.
Collaborate focuses on the strategic integration of nurses within multidisciplinary teams and care pathways. This pillar examines approaches to bridging existing gaps in collaborative practice, demonstrating how community nurses can be effectively embedded within integrated care models. By strengthening these partnerships, nurses can maximise health outcomes whilst enhancing overall team effectiveness and care coordination.
Cultivate addresses the critical need to develop clinical reasoning capabilities in the next generation of nurses. Moving beyond protocol-driven practice, this pillar explores how to nurture critical thinking skills that enable nurses to confidently navigate complex clinical situations, adapt to diverse patient presentations, and contribute meaningfully to clinical decision-making processes.
Care encompasses both the delivery of excellent patient care and the essential practice of professional self-care. This pillar tackles the pressing challenge of burnout prevention in high-demand, resource-constrained environments, presenting practical strategies for sustaining nursing workforce wellbeing whilst maintaining high standards of care delivery.
Together, these three dimensions create a comprehensive framework for nursing excellence in primary care. This integrated approach directly contributes to the broader goal of building resilient, patient-centred primary care systems that can adapt and thrive in an evolving healthcare landscape.
Workshop Objectives
Workshop Learning Outcomes
Session Details
Topic
Speaker
Bridging the Gaps in TEAMS and embedding Nurses in Integrated Care Pathways
Health care is getting increasingly complex with individuals living longer with chronic diseases. Beyond striving for clinical excellence, addressing the diverse needs of patients calls for a more team-based approach to care. Nurses are well-placed in providing patient education to empower health behaviour change, and supporting individuals in addressing the social determinants of health. This session will use case examples of community nurses at community health posts, transitional care settings, and nursing home settings to illustrate the importance of nurses in supporting integrated care pathways. Other opportunities for integrated care team and collaborative models will also be shared.
Asst Prof Chen Wei Ting
Beyond Protocols – Cultivating Clinical Reasoning Skills in the Next Generation of Nurses
Cultivating clinical reasoning skills for the next generation of nurses means shifting from static case studies towards complexity of real-world practice. It focuses on fostering four skills: metacognition (thinking about your own thinking), sharpening experienced intuition (trusting your experienced instinct), build their skill for collaborative sense-making within clinical systems (understanding the situation with your team), and blending all these into good judgement.
Nursing education has evolved to active methods: think-aloud exercises, structured team debriefs / huddles, scenario-based simulation that mirror real-world pressures like teamwork and workload for authentic learnings. The guided reflection and discussions focus on the “why” behind decisions. The goal is to develop adaptive, thinking nurses who combine analytical thinking, intuitive insight and team-based coordination to deliver safe, person-centred care.
Ms Cindy Lee Ching Siang
Sustaining Self-Burnout Prevention for Nurses in a High-Demand, Low Resource World
Sustaining self and preventing burnout is critically important for nurses working in a high demand psychiatric short stay unit (SSU) with an average 72-hour length of stay. Such wards operate at a rapid pace, managing continuous high acuity admissions, crisis stabilization, and frequent discharges. This fast turnover environment places sustained emotional, cognitive, and operational pressure on nursing staff, increasing the risk of stress, compassion fatigue, and burnout. As a Nurse Clinician, the presenter draws on experience gained through training and certification as a mindfulness teacher, applying mindfulness informed practices for personal resilience and as a leadership and management approach in supporting a team of nurses.
Mr Leo Ting Yuan
Speakers
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Asst Prof Chen Wei Ting
Clinical Director, Community Health,
National Healthcare Group
Ms Cindy Lee Ching Siang
Senior Nurse Educator, Nursing Services,
NHG Polyclinics
Mr Leo Ting Yuan
Nurse Clinician, Ward 23B,
Institute of Mental Health (IMH)