On May 23, 2013, the conference "Exploring the integration of the nursing innovative course reform, simulation and nursing education; Sharing the successful experience at home and abroad" co-hosted by President Lin Ying and Secretary of general Gong LiHua was held at Guanghua International Education Association. Many nursing educational and clinical experts at home and abroad and delegates from Laerda, the internationally famous medical simulation equipment company attended the meeting including Michelle Kelly, professor of the university of science and technology, (Sydney, Australia); Dean Liu Ping and Lecturer Wang Ailing of Hope school of nursing, Wuhan university; Ruan WeiJie, general manager and Li Weiji, director of Laerdal Medical; Doctor LI Xiang, from Glasgow Caledonia university (GCU); and several prominent representatives from 302 hospital, Wujing general hospital, United Family Hospital and many vocational nursing colleges.

The conference theme and the experts’speeches were closely related to the focus of work and development direction of GIEA——nursing education reform and innovation in China and international nursing professionals training, including four aspects: teacher training, teaching base construction, talent cultivation, and teaching/online resource construction. The participating experts shared their professional knowledge and the successful experience of the nursing teaching reform and provided valuable suggestions to the future work of GIEA.

At the beginning of the conference,President Lin Ying gave a simple introduction about the background, focus and development of GIEA. She pointed out that the nurses’abilities could not meet the job requirements under the current nursing education system in China. She suggested to develop the international cooperations in nursing education and reference and share the advanced foreign experience and education resources with the support of related government departments.

Dean Liu Ping and lecturer Wang Ailing ( HOPE school of nursing, Wuhan University) gave a presentation on their nursing curriculum reform experience, simulation courses and online teaching resources platform. Dean Liu said that HOPE school of nursing, Wuhan university had paid attention to the cultivation of the "teaching and clinical" teachers.Their school adopted the model of "theory to simulation laboratory to clinical", which fully integrated the simulation and the nursing courses. The positive effect of this model had been fully proved by the clinical practice.Wang Ailing introduced the integration of simulation and nursing courses and simulation teaching and shared their simulation scenario development and teaching experience.

Ruan Weijie, general manager of Laerdal medical, introduced the simulated teaching (scenario) resources at home and abroad and the information about international cooperation and resource sharing. Zhang ling, director of Laerdal-American heart association (AHA) cooperation projects, introduced the development of AHA cardiopulmonary resuscitation training programs in China.

Professor Michelle Kelly, holds many titles, including: director of medical simulation and technology department, health section, university of science and technology, Sydney; a member of simulation learning advisory group; nursing and midwifery dean commission of Australia and New Zealand; and also involved in the process of Australian nursing innovation course reform and the formulating of simulation teaching standards. Despite being very busy, Michelle Kelly still went to Beijing to attend the meeting to discuss the nursing faculty training and the future cooperation of the resource library construction between China and Australia to promote the Chinese nursing education reform and international nursing personnel training. This will be done through the experience sharing with GIEA and Chinese experts. Professor Michelle Kelly started with the reasons and opportunities of the nursing simulation teaching reform in Australia, then she explained: the Australian nursing curriculum, integration of simulation and courses, simulation teaching experience, development and application of nursing scenarios, construction of simulation centers, simulation teachers and staff training, etc. Professor Michelle Kelly also pointed out that the institutions of various countries should develop scenarios of their own on the basis of international resource sharing in order to meet the healthcare demands in each country.

Dr Li xiang from Glasgow Caledonia university (GCU) made a speech about the online nursing resources. She introduced the GCU online course platform and emphasized the importance of combination between science&technology and nursing.

Finally, Li Weiji, Director of Laerdal Medical; Yu Lisha, Director of 302 Hospital; Liu Jun’e, Dean of Capital Medical University; Zhang Yifan, Head nurse of united family hospital; Gao Ge, from Wujing General Hospital; Xu Renhua, from Binzhou Medical College; Liang Ang and Jiang Yan, from Sanquan College all expressed their views. It was generally believed that the simulation teaching is a bridge between theory and clinical. They all hoped to make further cooperations with GIEA on the training in simulation education.

In this conference, the nursing educational and medical clinical experts had an in-depth discussion on the faculty training, teaching base construction, training, and teaching/online database construction, which provided new ideas and inspirations for simulation teaching, faculty training and curriculum integration in Chinese colleges and healthcare providers. GIEA will guide as well as provide the valuable education resources for the specific work in the future.