In the Media

HKU School of Nursing held a session with the media to show how it has adopted innovative teaching to enhance and nurture students' nursing skills. This approach provides different learning opportunities for students to care for patients and deal with varying scenarios in a safe environment. The School established the Li Shu Fan Medical Foundation Nursing Clinical Skills Laboratory in 2017 and introduced infant and children simulators last year.

During the media event, Professor Kelvin Wang Man-ping introduced the simulators and simulation teaching in which nearly 100 scenarios had been designed for students to learn and practice. In addition, teachers provide constructive feedback to students by reviewing recordings of the simulation learning process.

Innovative and simulation teaching also equipped our students to stand on the frontline during the fifth wave of COVID-19, when more than 300 students and teachers from the School provided support in the community holding centres, community testing and vaccination centres and Hospital Authority (HA) hotline support centre. Furthermore, with the knowledge and clinical skills learnt from the School, our nursing students collaborated with different disciplinary teams successfully to formulate nursing procedures for patients and provide professional and humane nursing treatment and rehabilitation arrangements.

(On.cc, Ming Pao Daily, Sing Tao, Oriental Daily News, Hong Kong Economic Times, Ming Pao Vancouver, TOPick.hket.com, HK01, Bastille Post, TVB News, Yahoo News, The Limited Times - May 23, 2022; Ohpama.com – May 25, 2022)

Dr Jojo Kwok Yan-yan had an interview with the Researcher to share the results of her study comparing the effectiveness of different behavioural interventions for managing the freezing of gait in people with Parkinson’s disease.

The findings concluded that obstacle training, gait training on the treadmill, general exercise, action observation training, and conventional physiotherapy provided immediate real-life benefits in reducing freezing of gait among patients with mild to moderate Parkinson’s disease. The findings also suggested that intervention with high-complexity motor training combined with attentional and cognitive strategies should be further explored.

(Researcher – June 28, 2022)

Professor Kelvin Wang Man-ping was interviewed on the Now News programme "經緯線" in response to the record low smoking rate of traditional cigarettes in Hong Kong, but surging use of vapes among teenagers.

Professor Wang indicated that many reasons led teenagers to smoke and it was crucial to know these reasons when providing a suitable smoking cessation plan. The 16-year HKU Youth Quitline, established by the School of Nursing, has trained more than 500 peer counsellors. Through telephone consultations, these counsellors advise teenagers aged 25 or below to quit smoking. More than 3,200 smokers have used this service, and around 25% stopped smoking.

(Now TV News – July 10, 2022)

Incontinence is a common physical problem encountered by older women, which may cause mental stress and affect social life. Studies show that the number of affected women is two-fold higher than their male counterparts. Overseas studies have found that 30% of women aged 40 or above have incontinence, while studies targeting the Asian population have found that about 60% of women aged over 60 are affected. Dr Edmond Choi Pui-hang was invited by the Hong Kong Housing Society (HKHS) to discuss the types and causes of incontinence in women and provide tips on prevention, training, and choosing adult diapers.

(HKHS – July 28, 2022 and August 23, 2022)

Professor Lau Chak-sing met with reporters for the first time as Dean of Medicine at the new Academic Building at 3 Sassoon Road. He introduced the infrastructure of the Academic Building, where there are nursing laboratories with state-of-the-art simulators targeting different age groups and genders to facilitate nursing education. Dr Veronica Lam Suk-fun demonstrated the key features of these simulators and how they could benefit students’ learning.

(TVB News, Cable TV News, Now TV News, RTHK Chinese News, Commercial Radio News, Metro Radio News, Ming Pao Daily Online, On.cc, Sing Tao Daily Online, TOPick.hket.com, HK01, Headlines Online, Bastille Post, Orange News – August 5, 2022; Hong Kong Commercial Daily, Hong Kong Economic Journal, Hong Kong Economic Times, Ming Pao Daily News, Oriental Daily News, Sing Tao Daily, Wen Wei Po – August 5, 2022)

Dr Celine Chui Sze-ling from the HKU School of Nursing and School of Public Health, and Dr Peng Wu from Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, HKU School of Public Health, attended a press event to call for centralised reporting of cases of Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE), a microbe considered a “superbug” with strong antibiotic resistance.

The HKU team examined the Hospital Authority’s CDARS data from 2008 to 2019 and found that among 23,797 patients who were tested for CPE, 17.9% were tested positive.

The main culprit is the excessive prescription and use of antibiotics. HKU researchers called for a centralised platform to be established for reporting all CPE cases, to tackle the problem.

(Now TV News, TVB News, Commercial Radio News, RTHK, SCMP, Ming Pao Daily News, Oriental Daily News, HK01, Hong Kong Economic Times, AM730, Sky Post, East Daily – August 29, 2022; RTHK1 Programme “HK Letter”, Bastille Post, On.cc, Sing Tao Daily – September 24, 2022; Oriental Daily News – September 25, 2022; Eastweek – September 28, 2022)

The School of Nursing, in collaboration with Sino Group and the Ng Teng Fong Charitable Foundation and charitable organisations and NGOs, has launched the two-year “Generations Connect” Project to bring young people together with older adults to enhance the latter’s physical, psychosocial and mental wellbeing during the pandemic. The initiative will see nursing students provide community intervention and behavioural coaching, and will also integrate e-health literacy.

The project, led by Professor Sophia Chan Siu-chee of the School of Nursing, commenced its first phase of pilot services in November 2022 with over 50 nursing students have received elderly care training and visited about 100 elderly residents living in Wah Fu Estate.

In collaboration with 11 social welfare organisations, the project will begin its second phase from January 2023 until the end of 2024. More than 1,000 undergraduate and postgraduate nursing students will work with 10,000 elderly residents in need across 18 districts in the city through regular home visits, phone calls and video conferences, in an effort to enhance their psychosocial and mental well-being.

Students will teach residents how to use an online platform especially designed for the elderly to access health-related information, as well as how to use government e-health services. They will also encourage the elderly to exercise.

Data will also be collected during the initiative and analysed for recommendations on the planning of elderly care services and nurse training.

(The Standard Online, TVB News, Ming Pao Daily Online, Sing Tao Daily Online, HKEJ.com, Inews.Hket.com, Hket.com, wenweipo.com, HK01, Headline.com, Tastymoney.hk, Technow.com.hk, Quamnet, Hong Kong Economic Times – September 29, 2022; On.cc, Wen Wei Po – September 30, 2022; CRHK instant news – October 31, 2022; CRHK instant news; RTHK instant news, Metro Radio instant news, TOPick.hket.com, HKEJ instant news, WWP instant news, HKCD instant news, Bastille Post, Dotdotnews.com, HK01.com, Sina Hong Kong – November 2, 2022; South China Morning Post, Ming Pao Daily News, Sing Tao Daily, Hong Kong Economic Times, Ta Kung Pao, Wen Wei Po, Sky Post, meetinghk.com, Ming Pao JUMP, WWP online news, Sky Post online news, Orange News, Sina Hong Kong – November 3, 2022)