Source : http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/centre-sanctions-rs25-cr-for-nursing-census/article7100959.ece
National Nursing Conference begins in CMC College of Nursing
The central government has sanctioned Rs.25 crores to the Indian Nursing Council (INC), New Delhi, for undertaking a nation-wide Nursing Census, an innovative initiative of the Council, according to T. Dileep Kumar, president of INC.
He delivered the keynote address at the inaugural session of the conference on ‘Innovations in Nursing: A Key to Professional Excellence’ organised by the College of Nursing (CON) of the Christian Medical College at the CMC campus here on Monday.
Software to preserve details
Mr. Dileep Kumar said that during the census, the INC would collect the details of each practicing nurse including biometrics and issue an identity card to each one. The council will preserve the details, with the help of a software, for three years. Later, it would impart training in maintaining the software to the institutions.
A nurse tracking system will also be put in place. The census would also come up with exact statistics on the number of trained and untrained nurses. Based on the statistics, the INC would assist the nursing institutions in capacity building and creating the required human resources to meet the demand for trained nurses in India, he said.
Ph.D. Consortium
Another innovative initiative of the INC was the creation of a Ph.D. Consortium. The consortium of scholarly prepared nurses is a project developed with the help of the World Health Organization for the development of a Ph.D. programme by networking. This consortium would conduct a Postgraduate Nursing Programme in differently institutions in the country through video-conferencing. Seminars and paper presentations would be done through video-conferencing.
The Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore has amended the University Act to facilitate awarding of postgraduate nursing degrees to candidates from other states as well, he said.
The Ph.D. Consortium project is aimed at ensuring that all the 1600 colleges of nursing in the country offering post-basic courses are headed by Ph.D. scholars.
A total of 250 scholars are already on the rolls of INC. It has received 500 applications for Ph.D., he said.
For better health care
Mr. Dileep Kumar that all these innovations were aimed at ensuring better patient care and improvement in health care delivery.
The International Council of Nurses which influenced the nursing component in the policy document of the WHO had ‘Nurses Leading Care Innovations’ as its theme for 2009. The objective was to develop new approaches and bring about better health promotion, disease prevention and improved patient care through nurse-led interventions.
Case studies on primary health care have shown that the contribution of nursing and midwifery has made a significant improvement in primary health care, he said.
Dr. Thomas Kuriakose, Associate Director of the CMC Hospital said that nursing in CMC was a combination of professionalism and human touch. Jayarani Premkumar, Nursing Superintendent of CMC Hospital spoke.
Dr. Selva Titus Chacko, Dean, CMC CON welcomed the gathering. Vinitha Ravindran, Deputy Dean proposed a vote of thanks.
No comments:
Post a Comment