The series online forums on "Maintaining all human health and promoting the development of nursing science" ( Session II )was held at 2:30 p.m. on June 5. West China school of Nursing, Sichuan University provides this forum to continue to explore the construction and development of the nursing discipline. Many scholars and guests were invited and attended the forum, including Professor Pi Hongying, Vice President of the Chinese Nursing Association, Professor He Chaozhu, Dean of the School of Nursing, Nanchang University, Professor Xiao Dongxia from Flinders University, Professor Zhu Mingxia from Macau Mirror Lake Nursing College, and Professor Duan Zhiguang, Secretary of the Party committee of Shanxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine/Director of the Health and Humanities Research Center. The forum was chaired by Li Ka, Executive Dean of the Nursing School, and Deputy Dean Zhang Fengying.

Professor Duan contributed a lecture on the theme of "the development of nursing science based on health humanities". He shared the connotation of the large-health humanities, and deeply analyzed the practical problems nursing science have encountered since it became the first-level discipline in China. He further pointed out the precise direction of nursing development in the future.

Professor Pi started the presentation titled "Nightingale and Professionalism" with the story of Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War and vividly interpreted the deep meaning of the Nightingale's spirits. The spirit and principles of Nightingale were continuously being practiced by the heirs of nursing at Mount Vulcan Hospital during the Anti-COVID-2019 war.

Professor He provided his speech with the theme of "Thinking about the development of nursing education during the COVID-19 pandemic". She found out several weak aspects of nursing education in the light of the performance of nurses during the pandemic. She suggested increasing nursing education intensity, broadening the context coverage, especially digging deep into ideological and political elements within professional, and training professional nurses following strict standards and by multi-areas orientations.

Professor Xiao shared her thoughts on “Promoting nurses' global leadership in dementia care” , illustrating the examples of Chinese and Australian nurses' care for patients with dementia. She emphasized the development of specialist care and building nursing leadership in dementia care, and hoped ultimately to promote nurses' global leadership in dementia care.

With the theme of "Nursing and Death Education", professor Zhu, shared the curriculum settings of death education and proposed ideas that nurses should prepare themselves to accept, respect and cope with death properly. Professor Zhu also shared the educational concept of "from human to benevolence".

More than 6,000 audiences from universities and medical institutions in most provinces across the country watched the forum. The participants actively participated in the discussion and left messages, appreciating the experts’ wonderful sharing and West China Nursing School’s forum organization.

In 2020, nurses all around the world play a key role in addressing global health challenges and fully embody the value and contribution of nurses to human health. West China Nursing School will continue to invite experts from the world to carry out in-depth thinking and dialogue to make contributions to the construction and development of human health and nursing science.