Empowering Community Nursing Voices through Research
4 November 2024 | Joodi Mourhli
“How can we help?” is often the first question that community nurses ask when they receive a phone call from a distressed family carer, or are faced with a difficult situation.
The Race to Address Health Inequalities Research Conference is a chance for community nurses from all specialities to extend their help beyond patient and service-user care, and through their research contribute to the wider advancement of the community nursing field. The conference welcomes community nurses from any specialism in the UK.
Shifts in society expose community nurses to health inequalities, which can inspire them to explore and investigate through inquisitive questions and research.
Participating in this conference will give you the platform to share your findings, exchange knowledge, and build connections with colleagues who share your ambition and motivation to spark and enact change. This is your chance to highlight the inequality challenges which families and community nurses navigate on day-to-day basis, and to collaborate with like-minded colleagues to address them.
As an early-career researcher, this conference offers you a welcoming audience to present your findings confidently, build your research network, expand the horizons of your knowledge, identify collaboration opportunities, and inspire your next research proposal.
Whether you are an internationally educated nurse looking to integrate yourself into the UK healthcare workforce, or visiting to present your work, this conference welcomes you with open arms. It will host a diversity of perspectives, foster international friendships, and stimulate multi-cultural conversations between community nursing researchers.
Join us in taking a step towards the benefit of the populations we serve, through community nursing, at City St George’s University, London, on 15-17 April 2025. Register to attend here.
Joodi Mourhli
Joodi is a nursing graduate from the American University of Beirut and a recipient of the Lion’s Award for Distinguished Nursing Students (2022) and the Rouzan Al-Najjar Award for Nursing Excellence (2023). She completed an MPhil in Population Health Sciences at the University of Cambridge in 2024. Currently, she works as a research assistant with Dr. Ben Bowers at the Palliative and End-of-Life Care Research Group at Cambridge.
Call for Abstracts
As put in the ICCHNR’s call for abstracts: “We want to hear from you, whether your programme of work is large or small: we are interested.” Nursing work in the UK is highly relevant.
Please see the following resources on writing abstracts:
- RCN Guide which demystifies the process of submitting abstracts
- Example abstract from the Primary Care Respiratory Society
If you need any further support, please email us at mail@qni.org.uk and we will do our best to help, or connect you with someone who can.
Find out more about the UK-wide QNI Community Nursing Research Forum here.