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Dr. Ooi Cheng Lee
The Nursing Division collaborated with the Institute
of Clinical Research to organize the 4th National
Nursing Research Colloquium (NNRC) from 15 to
16 March 2023 at the Auditorium Perdana in the
National Institute of Health with the theme “Nurses
Together: Improving Quality of Care Through
Research”. The colloquium was officiated by Dato’
Dr. Asmayani Khalib, the Deputy Director - General
of Health (Medical) and accompanied by Datuk
Dr. Kalaiarasu M. Peariasamy, the former Director
of Institute for Clinical Research; and Puan Devi K
Saravana Muthu, the Director of Nursing Division.
The NNRC has been held biennially since 2015. Since
then, it has served as the platform for disseminating
nursing research evidence to incorporate into real- Dato’ Dr. Asmayani Khalib, the Deputy Director - General of
life clinical practice. The nursing research works Health (Medical) officiating the NNRC 2023
on the identification of nursing issues and finding this year. This year, only the top 40 researchers
solutions to improve overall nursing performance had the chance of presenting their works through
across educational, management, and clinical poster or oral form and the judges were made up of
aspects. A total of 126 journals which were written nursing academic experts from public and private
by undergraduate and postgraduate nurses from universities. Among the topics discussed during
public universities have been published from 2021 the colloquium were fall prevention, workplace
until 2023. environment and innovative clinical assessment
tools.
The colloquium this year was attended by 370
nurses from inside and outside of Malaysia, both The Nursing Division is committed to cultivating
from the public and private sectors. The nursing research practice among nurses across Malaysia.
research paper submission has also increased over Hopefully by this colloquium, the patient nursing
the years. From 47 pieces of research submissions care service can be improved for the better and the
in 2015 to 52 in 2017, 72 in 2017 and up to 101 pieces local nursing relations can be expanded globally.

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