The healthcare industry is currently booming all over the world. Patient Safety is rapidly becoming an indispensable part of a comprehensive approach to quality care development. It gives care providers the competitive edge needed to meet consumers’ increasing awareness of quality care delivery.

Therefore, in collaboration with the Society of Healthcare Academicians invites abstract proposals for paper and poster presentations for the First Annual, International Congress on Patient Safety in Nursing Services. This is being planned in May, 01-04, 2024 in Antalya.

The medical profession has long been concerned with whether the care given to, and perceived as being good for the patient actually achieves its goal, or at least does more good than harm. Within this context patient safety is crucial, since it can potentially influence both patients’ health status and medical outcome. The current, old processes are not working anymore. The system is unmanageable and unusable, full of mistakes and errors, founded on empiricism rather than evidence of efficacy and is way too expensive. Therefore, promoting patient safety goes hand-in-hand with person-centered care. A whole new science has grown up around patient safety to try to explain the many circumstances, situations and occurrences that can put patients at risk. It may not be a single issue that causes the problem, but a combination of factors . Patient safety is the cornerstone of high-quality health care. Much of the work defining patient safety and practices that prevent harm have focused on negative outcomes of care, such as mortality and morbidity.

Nurses are the largest group of healthcare providers in the world offering direct patient care and critical staff to the surveillance and coordination that reduce such adverse outcomes. In the past, we have often viewed nursing’s responsibility in patient safety in narrow aspects of patient care, for example, avoiding medication errors and preventing patient falls. While these dimensions of safety remain important within the nursing purview, the breadth and depth of patient safety and quality improvement are far greater. The most critical contribution of nursing to patient safety, in any setting, is the ability to coordinate and integrate the multiple aspects of quality within the care directly provided by nursing, and across the care delivered by others in the setting.

This congress will provide opportunities to discuss the current challenges in healthcare, provide an insight on latest trends and to explore the future of patient safety and healthcare science. The congress will assist the participants in understanding, developing and implementing an effective patient safety program in their organizations and prepare them for future professional challenges. From invited plenary presentations, selected workshops, oral and poster presentations, participants will have opportunities to explore collaborative approaches to quality improvement among users, providers and donor organizations, and to examine new systems and ideas that reach across traditional boundaries

With the theme celebrating "Changing Trends and Future of Patient Safety"

this international nursing care and patient safety conference will be of value to

• Nursing staff, Registered Nurse (RN), Nurse Practioner, Clinical Nurse, LPN, Nurse Case Manager, ICU Nurse etc.,
• Policy makers,
• Planners,
• Professionals,
• Providers and their representatives
• Patient, families and their representatives.

The scientific program will cover all the topics associated with the Nursing Education and Patient Safety. The program will cover the specialties and sub- specialties such as Nursing Care, Patient Safety and Risk management, Healthcare management, Primary Care, Adverse drug reactions and reporting, Blood safety, Factors associated with safety of patient, Infection control, Types of Nursing, Challenges in Patient Safety, Nursing Education & Research, and Geriatric Safety and many more.

From invited plenary presentations, selected workshops, oral and poster presentations, participants will have opportunities to explore collaborative approaches to patient safety among users, providers and donor organizations, and to examine new systems and ideas that reach across traditional boundaries

The central theme in this conference will therefore be "Changing Trends and Future of Patient Safety in Nursing",

We may also include the following related themes:

• Accreditation, certification and credentialing.
• Patient safety, risk management and the reduction of medical errors.
• Making the Healthcare environment safe to patient, their families and our employees. Includes: medical errors, risk management, environmental safety, reporting on errors, problem solving, etc.
• Providing on-time care. Includes: waiting times, effective referrals, early detection, timeliness of results, etc.
• Effectiveness: Insuring a delivery of care that achieves desired outcomes. Includes: accreditation, certification, outcomes indicators, setting standards, measuring performance, PI projects, etc.
• Ensuring the optimum use of current resources: Efficient Resource Utilization. Includes: utilization management, peer review, cost containment, health economics and quality, human resource allocation and distribution, etc.
• Providing care that is equitable. Includes: stereotyping, health literacy, access to care, availability of care services, etc.
• Innovation in care services that is patient focused and customized. Includes: IT issues, innovations in practice, breakthrough experiences, e-health, etc.
• Breakthrough in communications: The patient, provider, insurer and regulator. Includes: reporting mechanisms, communication avenues, patient and provider satisfactions, marketing quality, etc.
• Advancing healthcare technology. Includes: safe and user friendly technology, patient oriented technological advances, use of technology to render safe, effective and efficient healthcare.
• Innovations in healthcare system infrastructure. Including; system design, safety by design, an environmentally friendly facility, patient participation in structure changes.
• Efficiency in delivery and care Includes; cost effective and cost beneficial care, linear programming to contain costs, minimizing and maximizing to provide effective yet efficient services and organizational structure.
• Innovation in communication and training. Includes: use of electronic medical records, CPOE, effective communications with patients, interpersonal communications among care givers, active listening, etc.
• Moral and ethical behaviour in delivering healthcare services. Including; bioethics committee involvement, informed consent and enlisting patients in research, IRB’s, DNR issues, advanced directives and living wills, etc.
• Preparing for the worse. Including Emergency preparedness, disaster planning, FMEA applications, risk assessment, risk management, malpractice issues, etc.

As chairperson, I am looking forward with great enthusiasm and interest to meeting each and every one of you and working with you during this conference period.

Best regards,