The Value of Nursing in the Digital Age
Professor Dawn Dowding delivers the annual RCN Winifred Raphael Memorial Lecture in London
20 Mar 2025, 16:00 - 18:30
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Join Professor Dawn Dowding as she delivers the annual RCN Winifred Raphael Memorial Lecture on nursing in a digital age.
Digital ways of working have become routine for many parts of our lives, including in health and care environments. In this increasingly technological environment it is crucial that nurses have an understanding of how digital solutions can support nursing practice and care. This lecture will explore the role of digital technologies in nursing practice. It will consider how nursing can adapt to an increasingly digital environment, drawing on existing research evidence, and highlighting where we need to develop our knowledge and understanding to meet the demands of a digital future.
This event is in person and open to all. Doors open at 4pm and the lecture will begin at 4.30pm. The lecture will be followed by light refreshments from 6-6.30pm.
The event has been organised by the Royal College of Nursing Institute of Nursing Excellence, RCN Research Forum and Clinical Research Nurses Sub-committee and is funded by the RCN Foundation, an independent charity whose purpose is to support and strengthen nursing, midwifery, and social care to improve the health and wellbeing of the public.
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Professor Dawn Dowding
Dawn is Professor in Clinical Decision Making in the School of Health Sciences, University of Manchester, and an honorary Professorial Fellow of the University of Melbourne. She is a nurse and health services researcher with expertise in the field of clinical decision making and nursing informatics. She is a Co-Director of the International Collaborative for Translational Digital Health (with the Universities of Toronto and Melbourne), the lead for the Digital Health theme in the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Greater Manchester, and leads the Digital Health and Social Care Research Group in the Division of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work at Manchester.
Dawn is an elected Fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics, a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and a Fellow of the British Computer Society. She is also co-Chair of the eHealth forum at the Royal College of Nursing, and the Vice Chair for Working Groups for the International Medical Informatics Association Nursing Group. Dawn completed her registered nurse training at St Bartholomew’s College of Nursing and Midwifery, London, has a BSc(Hons) in Psychology with Nursing Studies from City University, London and a PhD in Psychology and Nursing from the University of Surrey, UK.
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