Chronic conditions has become an important concern in healthcare service within the last decade, to be specific in South East Asia region. The advances in healthcare sciences and technology has increased the life expectancy for people with chronic conditions. This situation urges nurses to improve their competency. For developing countries, this issue has triggered the nursing society to develop certain strategies to strengthen their practice. As a consequence, advancements should be made in many aspects of nursing practice, starting from nursing education, research, and also the clinical competencies. Therefore, the strengthening nurses’ competency in chronic care, starting from basic science to clinical practice setting. By doing so, it is expected that this conference would give a better understanding of how to improve the competencies of nurses especially in developing countries to face chronic conditions. Accordingly, the School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, Brawijaya university proudly presents the theme of The 3rdInternational Conference in Nursing (ICON) 2017: Approaching from basic to practice towards chronic care excellence. Therefore by gathering and interacting each of attendees here can tighten our bond as academia, researcher and healthcare professionals in order to increase the spirit of research and study.
