1. Healthcare and Nursing Exploration-
Innovation Begins:
At School and Clinical Area of Practice
By: Dr. James Malce Alo
drjames_alo@yahoo.com or jmalo@iau.edu.sa
966-541142694
KEY NOTE SPEECH
World Euro Nursing Conference 2017
HELD AT Paris, France

2. • Ladies and gentlemen, it is both a great pleasure and
a great honor to be with you today, in the company of
all the invited and distinguished guests. Exploring-
innovating in nursing and healthcare is said to be
inevitable and one of the few things in life we can
count on.
• In health care, it often becomes necessary due to the
innovation in technologies, legislation, policy reforms,
changing standards of care, or even negative factors
such as staff shortages. All these innovations mirror
the dynamic needs of the society.
• Dear Delegates, It is indeed true that nurses have
played part as exploration-innovation agents and are
assertively concerned with challenging the status quo
in nursing and the health care system.

3. • Nurses have strived to understand why exploration-
innovation is needed through continuously exploring
the world in which health care providers and
organizations function.
• It is in my belief that healthcare and nursing
exploration-innovation begins at school and clinical
area of practice, we all do this usually because of the
good intentions we have for our clients.
• I take this opportunity here and now to sincerely
congratulate each one of you for the excellent work
you are doing amidst meager resources and harsh
working environment.

4. • My dear participants, in as much as it is easy for a system
and/or an organizational culture to become complacent with
how things are and get comfortable with the current level of
quality and safety, I commend the nursing profession for
avoiding falling victim of such temptation.
• It is just amazing to see how nurses lead a very demanding life
- working with doctors, helping in the healing process,
educating the communities and dealing with death and dying
to mention just a few of the responsibilities nurses perform on
a daily basis.
• On the basis of this, William Osler could not put it much better
when he said that:
…… a trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of
humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.

5. • Through the collective effort of nurses, there has been a
dynamic interrelation and assurance of developmental
exploration-innovation that has improved the current
operations in healthcare. Nurses have also been so
instrumental in fostering transitional innovations especially in
the structure of the health care system towards creating a
whole new set of attitudes and approaches.
• Dear participants, there is need to explore an integrative
approach in the improvement of health care experiences in our
world.
• There is no doubt that as we have made bold steps in
transforming these experiences from the time nurses were
considered as sadists to now when sad and confused patients
turn to them for a smile.

6. • It is indeed encouraging to see the manner in
which the nursing profession prioritizes the
maintenance of human life.
• The confident faces that are always reflected all
day long, even when the circumstances are not
so right, is not only encouraging all of us when
we go visiting schools and hospitals, but gives us
reasons to believe in our health care.
• It is not doubtable that nurses largely remain
the gatekeepers of this noble realization. It
wouldn’t be fair for us to ignore the manner
with which nurses dispense comfort,
compassion, and care without even a
prescription.

7. • Ladies and gentlemen, you will agree with me that we
are not only gathered here to mark this important
leap in history, but also to take this time to reflect on
how the journey has been especially in exploring-
innovating nursing and healthcare.
• Esteemed listeners, it is attestable that there has
been good development in this realization. We have
all witnessed health exploration-innovation by nurses
that has resulted many positive health outcomes
including adherence, quality of life, patients'
knowledge of their illness, home visits and care and
self-management.

8. • There is need to have an evidence-based
understanding of the significant effect that can
be made through healthcare exploration-
innovation and communicate this understanding
to the public at large.
• As more people grew in their awareness of
activities that lead to good health and become
knowledgeable about their own health status
and the health of their families and
environment, the overall health of the
population will certainly improve.

9. • Honorable participants, never before has health
exploration and innovation been more important
than it is today. Nurses in education, practice, and
research settings can participate in the advancement
of healthcare exploration and innovation not only to
the mainstream but to the forefront of nursing
practice.
• It will add much value to this effort if deliberate steps
are taken to foster and put a human face to this
profession. I encourage all of us to undertake a
multidisciplinary approach in recruitment of our
personnel who not only hold with reverence human
life, but those who understand the scientific nature of
our society and appreciate our social diversity.

10. • I call upon all of us to incorporate more social
aspects in our training so that we can transform
hospitals into homes away from home.
• Esteemed listeners, good communication among
nurses, doctors and patients is essential for the
successful outcome of individualized nursing
care of each patient.
• To achieve this, however, nurses must
understand and help their patients with passion
and compassion by demonstrating courtesy,
kindness and sincerity.

11. • It is important for us to devote time to the patients
and communicate with the necessary confidentiality,
and must not forget that this communication includes
persons who surround the sick, which is why the
language of communication should be simple and
understood by all those involved.
• In nursing, language is very important in facilitating
quality care and educating recipients of that care.
• Finally, Ladies and gentlemen, let me remind us that
we are not nurses by our own choice but the choice of
God. God gave you the necessary tools to be one; a
caring and a loving.
• We are the product of what we read, study, review,
associate, attend conferences, and mingle with.

12. • Allow me to share a passages; “the cause of being a
nurse is more than a job – it’s a way of life”. And if
you’re working as academicians; remember, “Learners
are learning from their experiences which cannot be
taught by teachers except themselves” (J.M. Alo, 2009).
“Don’t be afraid to go outside the box, don’t be afraid
to think outside the box, don’t be afraid to fail big,
and don’t be afraid to dream. Dreams without goal
are just dreams and they ultimately fuel
disappointments, so have dreams, but have goals, life
goals, yearly goals, monthly goals, daily goals. And
understand, that to achieve these goals, you must
have to apply discipline and consistency, we have to
work for it, and working really hard is what successful
people do (Denzel Washington).

13. • You don’t start because of what you don’t have,
you don’t start because you don’t realize it, that
the fruit of everything good in life, begins in a
challenge, this is your challenge and this is our
challenge.
• Because, all the healthcare and nursing
exploration-innovation begins at school and in
their clinical area of practice. Nurses don’t just
aspire to make a living, but, should aspire to
make a difference in the world of healthcare.

14. • Thank you very much and may the World
Euro Nursing Conference 2017 be the turning
point for the exploration-innovation to the
nurse of the future that you have always
aspired to be.
James Malce Alo
PhD, MAPsych, MAN, OSHA, MAEd, BSN-RN
Assistant Professor