On October 30, 2025, the 9th International Nursing Academic Forum, part of the 2025 World Young Scientists Summit Grand Health Forum, was grandly held at the International Exchange Center of Wenzhou Medical University. Hosted by Wenzhou Medical University and co-organized by its School of Nursing and the Wenzhou Nursing Association, the forum aimed to focus on the innovative transformation of the global nursing discipline amid the wave of digital intelligence, thoroughly implement the "Healthy China" Strategy, and strengthen international exchanges and cooperation in the nursing field. It featured 1 main venue and 7 parallel venues, attracting over 650 nursing professionals from home and abroad to participate in this grand event.
Wang Junhong, Deputy Party Secretary of Wenzhou Medical University, delivered a speech. On behalf of the university, he congratulated the forum on its successful opening and highly praised the remarkable achievements made by the university's nursing discipline in talent cultivation, scientific research innovation, and other fields in recent years. He emphasized that this forum is a concrete action of Wenzhou Medical University to practice the "Healthy China" Strategy, and clearly stated that the School of Nursing will further link affiliated hospitals and training bases, build development consensus, pool educational efforts, cultivate more high-quality nursing talents with a sense of responsibility and outstanding capabilities, and lay a solid foundation for advancing the construction of a great modern socialist country.
Professor Wu Xinjuan, President of the Chinese Nursing Association, delivered a video speech. She stressed that nursing work is an important foundation of the health care cause and is directly related to the health and well-being of the whole people. She called on nursing professionals to not only root themselves in clinical frontlines to safeguard lives and health but also courageously embrace changes and lead professional innovation. The Chinese Nursing Association will continue to pay attention to and support the high-quality development of nursing in Wenzhou and across the country, and work hand in hand with all parties to push the nursing discipline to new heights and jointly contribute to the realization of the grand goal of building a Healthy China.
Professor Shannon Scott, Dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Alberta in Canada, also delivered a video speech. She pointed out that as a pillar of the global medical system, the nursing profession still faces many important challenges, which urgently require colleagues in the industry to build consensus and address them jointly. She emphasized that this forum is an important platform for pooling collective wisdom, and encouraged participants to actively communicate and conduct in-depth discussions, so as to promote the development of the nursing profession with the sense of responsibility of global leaders and contribute to enhancing human health and well-being.
The opening ceremony was hosted by Wang Min, Secretary of the Party Committee of the School of Nursing. Professor Cai Fuman, Dean of the School of Nursing, and Zhang Chunmei, President of the Wenzhou Nursing Association, delivered welcome speeches respectively.
At the grand appointment ceremony during the opening ceremony, Wang Junhong, Deputy Party Secretary of the university, presented the appointment certificate to Professor Janelle Yorke, Dean of the School of Nursing at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, officially appointing her as the Academic Dean and Visiting Professor of the School of Nursing at Wenzhou Medical University.
With the theme of "Innovative Nursing, Winning the Future", the forum gathered 77 renowned nursing experts, scholars, and young scientists from home and abroad, covering various fields such as master's and doctoral student forums, medical nursing, hemodialysis nursing, nursing education, and nursing management. Guests at the forum gathered to share cutting-edge research results and professional insights.
In the main venue, Professor Shang Shaomei, Member of the American Academy of Nursing, Chairman of the Teaching Steering Committee for Nursing Majors in Institutions of Higher Education under the Ministry of Education, and Dean of the School of Nursing at Peking University, delivered a keynote speech titled "Current Status, Opportunities, and Challenges of Nursing Education Development in China". Based on the "Healthy China" Strategy, she elaborated on the policy and disciplinary foundation for the development of nursing education, and conducted an in-depth analysis of the current status and needs of talent cultivation with objective data. She emphasized that promoting the "nursing+" interdisciplinary model and strengthening the construction of high-level talents and scientific research platforms are the keys to the future development of the discipline, and nursing talents in the new era need to possess both professional standards and specialized literacy.
Professor Janelle Yorke, Dean of the School of Nursing at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, shared a keynote report titled "Defining Nursing as STEM: Cases from Education, Practice, and Research". From conceptual definition to practical verification and value demonstration, she systematically expounded the internal logic of nursing as a STEM discipline. In her report, she took the successful practice of the Nursing STEM Scholars Program and the international ranking of nursing at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University as examples to further confirm the feasibility and development value of integrating nursing with STEM, providing innovative ideas for cultivating interdisciplinary thinking in nursing and leading the high-quality development of the nursing profession.
Professor Yuan Changrong, Member of the American Academy of Nursing and Member of the 8th Discipline Evaluation Group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, and Dean of the School of Nursing at Fudan University, delivered a keynote speech titled "Reflections on the Path of High-Quality Development of Interdisciplinary Nursing". Starting with conceptual breakthroughs and moving on to path construction, she systematically demonstrated the feasibility and implementation path of driving the high-quality development of nursing through interdisciplinary integration, and prospectively pointed out the potential risks and challenges. She emphasized that the innovation of the nursing discipline must break disciplinary barriers, integrate resources from multiple fields, and build a new collaborative development paradigm that connects clinical practice, scientific research, and talent cultivation.
Professor Shannon Scott, Dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Alberta in Canada, delivered a keynote speech titled "Integrating the Intersection of Knowledge Translation and Patient-Oriented Research: Co-Developing Knowledge Translation Tools for Parents". Focusing on knowledge translation and patient-oriented research, she shared her experience in cooperating with parents to develop family knowledge translation tools and discussed how to adapt them to more groups and scenarios to promote health equity. She pointed out that patients and families should be promoted to participate in the entire process of developing, evaluating, and even making clinical decisions on knowledge tools, thereby providing key support for improving public health literacy, enhancing nursing confidence, and improving the medical service system.
Professor Nisakorn Krungkraipetch, Vice Dean for Administration and Organizational Management, and Professor Trakulwong Leucha, Vice Dean for Information Technology and Innovation, from the School of Nursing at Burapha University in Thailand, shared Thailand's nursing education experience from the perspectives of system construction and technological innovation respectively. In her report "Nursing Education in Thailand", Professor Nisakorn Krungkraipetch systematically introduced the background, structural system, medical insurance policies, practice models, and development challenges of nursing education in Thailand, providing important references for deepening international exchanges and cooperation. Professor Trakulwong Leucha, in his report "Nursing Education Transformation Driven by Simulated Scenarios and AI-Enhanced Learning", focused on digital transformation and shared the practical achievements of simulated scenario teaching and AI technology in innovating nursing education, injecting new wisdom into global nursing education.
In addition to the keynote venue, the forum specially set up 3 master's and doctoral student academic forums and 4 parallel venues. More than 100 experts, scholars, master's and doctoral students, including Professor Jiang Liping, academic leader of nursing at Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Professor Hu Rong, Vice Dean of the School of Nursing at Fujian Medical University, Professor Yang Bingxiang, Vice Dean of the School of Nursing at Wuhan University, and Associate Professor Yan Wenjing, Dean of the Institute of Mental Health and Intelligent Computing at Wenzhou Medical University, conducted in-depth exchanges on the latest research results, clinical practice experience, and educational management experience in various professional fields. The scene was filled with a warm atmosphere, and sparks of ideas constantly collided.
This forum has successfully built a high-level international academic exchange platform, which not only fully demonstrated the strength and wisdom of the nursing profession but also clearly outlined the future prospect of the innovative development of the nursing discipline in the digital intelligence era. Standing at a new starting point for the development of the industry, nursing professionals around the world will continue to work hand in hand to jointly write a more brilliant new chapter for the nursing profession
