Career Path Opportunities
‘Challenges for young researchers’

Career Path Opportunities ‘Challenges for young researchers’

Career Opportunity as a Post-doctoral Fellow(PD)

Zhang Fengying

Zhang Fengying

Earned BD from SiChuan University, MS in Business Management from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Ph.D. in Nursing science from Sichuan university. Since Feb 2019, Associate Professor/Vice Dean, West China School of nursing, Sichuan university.

Research conducted at GNRC

Ensuring quality of care is an important issue in long-term care facilities. As mechanisms for quality assurance and improvement, there have been multiple quality indicators for long-term care endorsed. The quality of care for older adults is strongly linked to the performance of nursing staff, who provide direct care for older adults in long-term care facilities. In the current context of the integrated care system, very limited nursing staffs must perform a wide range of tasks and have very busy schedules which can lead to care quality issues in the long-term care facilities. Across many institutions, there is growing attentions on multilevel factors that enhance the quality of care. Multilevel modeling contributes to understand of hierarchical data structures by allowing the analyst to estimate structural and variance. Disaggregating variables conceptualized at institutional level and including them in an analysis with the individual level would generally produce different results. The higher quality of care may depend upon multi-factors, and the issue of quality measurement should be examined in a larger, more complex context, but the research is usually very limited for actual practices in long-term care facilities. A cross-sectional, national-wide study of long-term care hospitals in Japan was conducted before. Questionnaires were utilized to collect data on individual and institutional factors on care processes. A multilevel analysis was conducted to explore which factors were associated with quality of care. Increase the nurses’ work engagement, decrease job burnout and turnover intention in long-term care facilities are recommended to improve the quality of care.

Current research

  1. To explore the prevention of nursing risks in the long-term care facilities in China;
  2. To develop the virtual reality training system for a COVID-2019 prevention, and to establish the nursing virtual simulation experimental teaching center ( 211.83.159.70:8889/index.html ) for the teaching research;
  3. To establish the Chinese University Open Course in nursing ethics (https://www.icourse163.org/course/SCU-1207424808?tid=1452512521) and perform some teaching methods in educational activities, to investigate the results.

Future outlook

I had learned useful research methods in GNRC which always direct me to think and perform our study. And many valuable courses such as leadership, how to write a research paper in English, and wound care seminar, nursing engineering, etc., which has beneficial effects on our career development. I would like to using the knowledge, skills, strategy to further research, and to educate nursing students to be the best one for the future medical field.

Accomplishments

Zhang, F., Zhao, L., Zeng, Y., Xu, K., & Wen, X. (2019). A comparison of inquiry-oriented teaching and lecture-based approach in nursing ethics education. Nurse education today, 79, 86-91.