The Philippine Nurses Association in America-New York Chapter will hold a Balik- Turo lecture program on the recent trends in nursing education and practice  at the Claire Isabel McGill Luce Auditorium in Silliman University, Dumaguete City, today.

Highlighting the event is the talk by  Dr. Joyce Fitzpatrick on “Nursing Leadership”, a press release from organizers said.

Fitzpatrick is an Elizabeth Brooks Ford professor of nursing at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She is a member of the American National League of Nursing and serves as the editor of its official publication Nursing Education Perspectives and two other nursing journals: Applied Nursing Research and Archives of Psychiatric Nursing.

Sillimanian healthcare professionals and PNAA members will lecture on “Electronic Medical Record Nursing Informatics”, “Core Measures for Philippines”, “Women and Acute Myocardial Infraction (AMI)” and “AMI Post- Operative Pain Management”.

The program themed “Enhancing One’s Nursing Practice Through the Lens of the Experts,” is co-sponsored by 2007 Outstanding Sillimanian for Entrepreneurship  Olivia Yanson, a member of the Silliman University College of Nursing Alumni Association (1956), that organized the program  with the College of Nursing, the press release said.*

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