University of Portsmouth, UK
In the UK nurse prescribing has been well established and indeed spread to other professions including pharmacist, dietitian, optomotrist and other allied healthcare practitioners. The UK experience has found improved patient experience, reduced waiting times to see doctors and areas of specialism whereby nurses take the lead on medicines [i.e, asthma nurses and diabetes nurses]. This presentation shares our experience and how it can apply to the UAE, sharing best practice with regulatory frameworks, professional development and therapeutic pharmacy practice. We share experience of enablers within the healthcare environment and cultural expectations and barriers to nurse prescribing, including resistance from other peers! This presentation concludes with the increasingly demanding role of nurse prescribing and how the future role could develop for the nursing profession.
Biography:
Omar Ali is a visiting lecturer at University of Portsmouth & Former Adviser to NICE, Omar Ali qualified with a UK hospital pharmacy background; Omar has been working as the formulary advisor for Surrey & Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust for over 15 years, sitting on the regional Joint Drugs & Therapeutics Committee as well as the CCG/Commissioning Prescribing Clinical Network.
Omar has been a visiting lecturer at UCLH pharmacy programme and was both lecturer & examiner on the Independent Nurse Prescribing V300 Course at the University of Surrey and has over 30 publications to date. He has been appointed as visiting lecturer on Value Based Pricing & Innovative Contracting at the University of Portsmouth, is an Editorial Content Adviser to Guidelines and Nurse Prescriber Journals and has recently been invited to the position of Associate Editor to the Canadian Journal of Population Therapeutics & Clinical Pharmacology.
Omar has served a position on the External Reference Group on Cost Impact Modelling for NICE for 6 years and was subsequently appointed Panel Member for the newly formed Adoption & Impact Program Reference for NICE. He advises foreign investors (US Embassy) on Value Based Assessments (hosted by the UK Department of Trade & Industry) and recently delivered a Healthcare NHS Reform program to over 40 Healthcare Insurance Provider delegates visiting from the US. Last year he was invited to address the Italian Healthcare Senate [Senato della Republica] on Pharmaco-economic Evaluation
& Sustainability Models of Healthcare and featured at the Westminster Health Forum Keynote Seminars [chaired by Lord Howe, All Party Parliamentary Group on Pharmacy] on the Future for Pharmacy Commissioning, Organization & Delivery.
At this current time he has embarked on a PhD with his doctorate thesis entitled “Value Based Pricing & Outcomes Based, Innovative Contracting of New Medicines”.
Hawaii Pacific University, USA
Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI) is one of the most common nosocomial infections in critical care units worldwide. This study will try to validate that the implementation of the CAUTI Bundle of Best Practices will drastically decrease the incidence of CAUTI in the adult population of the four intensive care units (ICUs) of the Medical Center.
Biography:
Dr. Carrington is a full Professor of Hawaii Pacific University, Nursing Dept and was recently awarded the respected stature of Professor Emeritus. She taught critical care nursing to senior students. She recently retired after 20 years with Hawaii Pacific University and now teaches Gerontology Nursing as an Adjunct Faculty. Dr. Carrington graduated from Philippine Womenʼs University, Manila, Philippines with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, received her Masterʼs of Science in Nursing degree with dual umbrellas: in Education and Adult Health Specialization from the University of Portland, Oregon and is licensed as an Adult Nurse Practitioner. Her Master in Business Administration and Master in Public Administration were awarded from City University, Washington state. She completed her Doctorate in Education from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. In 2013, she was named the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Nursing & Health Care, Global Science & Technology Forum headquartered in Singapore. She authored and published with Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins. She has been a Keynote Speaker in other Conferences and has done numerous Nursing Conference podium presentations of her research study on Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in the 4 Intensive Care Units of a tertiary Medical Center. She has written grant proposals for volunteer community projects. She is a member of numerous organizations notable of which is the American Association of Critical Care Nurses. For 11 years to present, she has been a volunteer reviewer of the United States Nurses National Licensing Examination to Filipino RNs who desire to become licensed in the United States.
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