On May 12, the International Nurses Day celebration and commendation conference was held in Shenzhen Samii International Medical Center (SSIMC, The Fourth People’s Hospital of Shenzhen). At the conference, the staff members awarded as excellent nursing managers and excellent nurses at the municipal and hospital levels were commended, and the winners of nursing competitions were awarded.

Over the past year, the Nursing Services of SSIMC, under the leadership of SSIMC leaders, has accomplished a number of arduous tasks such as follow-up observation of recovered COVID-19 patients, epidemic prevention and control, and mass nucleic acid test before the Spring Festival. During the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination, the Nursing Services and other departments of SSIMC have been working together to administer 800-1,200 doses per day for mainland residents, compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and foreigners.

The Nursing Services of SSIMC took nursing quality and safety management as key points of its core work. By establishing a supervision system, the nursing staff were encouraged to promote practice with theory and strengthen theory with practice, with the focus on related work such as science, teaching and research. In this case, a surge in nursing innovation took place, strengthening the capacity to meet clinical operation demands.

In order to further promote the nursing culture building at SSIMC, the Nursing Services carried out a series of International Nurses Day activities including the “Nursing Safety, Quality and Excellence Month” activity, charity sales of unused items, outdoor pursuits, “Window Service Stars” selection through public appraisal, etc. and contests including the speech contest, English ward round contest, nursing case contest and nursing innovation contest, further strengthening the nursing team’s cohesion, sense of belonging and work efficiency.

On the International Nurses Day, WANG Cheng, CPC Secretary and Deputy Hospital Director of SSIMC, and RONG Deyi, CFO of SSIMC, together with responsible persons of Nursing Services, Medical Services, Office of Research & Development, CPC Committee Office and other departments, on behalf of SSIMC, visited clinical departments to present flowers to the nursing staff members and express sincere holiday wishes and greetings to them.

At the commendation conference, LI Qiuming, Senior Nursing Officer (SNO), made a summary of and took an outlook for the nursing work. At the conference, the staff members awarded as excellent nurses at the municipal and hospital levels were commended, and the winners of nursing competitions were awarded.

Secretary WANG Cheng, on behalf of the SSIMC leadership and all staff of the hospital, wished the nursing staff a happy holiday, and expressed sincere respect and gratitude to them for their contribution to the development of SSIMC. He stressed that nursing is a sacred and honorable profession, and it is a required course for nurses, honored as "angels in white", to better practice their missions of healing the wounded and rescuing the dying. First of all, nurses should constantly enhance learning. In an era with rapid knowledge changes, the idea of learning must be integrated into daily work, so as to stimulate endogenous motivation for development. A good learning environment is expected to be established in each department of SSIMC. At the same time, SSIMC also encourages the staff to go out and go global, and to align with a higher-level goal, thus achieving better and faster development. As employees of a Sino-foreign cooperative hospital, we must attach great importance to both English learning and practice. He wished that the nursing staff would give more human touch and warmth to patients in their daily work, and avoid complaining, waiting or making trouble. At the same time, the nursing team should strive for breakthrough development by strengthening areas of weakness, improving the primary-level construction, building strong services, selecting the suitable team leaders, and promoting work in all areas by drawing upon the experience gained on key points. In this environment, everyone can achieve their career dream.

Although thousands of miles away, Dr. Ethan Kholdebarin, Hospital Director, always cares for the nursing staff of SSIMC. On this special day, he made a live video call with them. He congratulated those who were commended and awarded, thanked them for their contribution to each SSIMC milestone, and wished them a happy holiday.