Invitation: Brainstorming session of clinical research and funding

"Professionalism through clinical research"

After  67 years of independence, we nurses are still leaving in the state of social status where she is recognized as “wearing a white uniform with an injection and following doctor orders in the hospital” but in the 19th century itself Florance Nightangale proved herself as a researcher and presented the mortality data in graphical form and came out with environmental theory.

Indian nurses are servicng at various capacities in different parts of the world. 21^st century, India came up with huge shortage of nurses across the globe (pubmed search with Nurses Shortage keyword reveals that annually more than 100 papers were published after year 2000 prior to that it was around 50), specially this was a cry among the developed country and few of the reasons were that their population was not attracted for this work but also had an increased demand for the health care specialties.

This was the time where developing countries like India, were undergoing structural reforms in various sector, one among them was education. Hence privatization of education system gave rise to many education institutions. Nursing professionals were having global demand, especially in developed countries so nursing institutions became a first choice for most of the business people to invest and earn income. Hence we have seen a huge increase in number of institutions. This increased the absolute number of nurses in India which reached 16 lakhs.

Having these many nurses, what are our contributions to the epistemiology of nursing from ourselves. Introspecting ourselves reveals that there were few professional asssiciations came forward to improve but could not able to fill the gap between the clinical practice and academician. After All India Nursing Association and leaders meeting it was decided to assess the level of the professionalism within the fraternuty and strategies to contribute to the nursing knowledge.

As a part of the process, we following association in collaboration with Safdurjung College of Nursing has organised brainstorming session on "Professionalism through clinical research" by Ms.Paridhi Jha, faculty of ANSWERS, carried various field research and registered as PhD Scholar at Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Agenda for the discussion are as follows:

1. Research in health sciences

2. Clinical practice and research

3. Opportunities of research in nursing

4. Funding for research

5. Expectations from these workshops if they continue

Venue :

Centre For Health and Social Justice

Basement, Young Women's Hostel 2

Avenue 21, G Block Saket

New Delhi.

Date    : 26.06.2015

Time   : 03-05 pm

For More Information Contact : Santosh Mahindrakar (RN, MSN, MPH) 08826745104

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NOTE:            1. No registration fee

                        2. This Venue is 8-10 walking distance from Saket Metro Station.

Open for : All Nurses and other health team members .