Report - Nurses Day celebration by TNAI and IMA...13th May 2016

Dear Friends

HAPPY NURSES DAY....

This is to brief you all about the Nurses Day celebration organised by TNAI, Indian Medical Association and Heart Care Foundation of India on 13th May 2016 at Russian Culture Centre, Ferozshah Road, New Delhi. Some of you might have got the opportunity to attend this function though this mail is for those who couldn't be a part of it.

This is the first time that IMA came forward in inviting TNAI for celebrating the International Nurses Day together at a single platform and also to felicitate few nursing leaders who have excelled in their field and honour their achievement. 

The chief members who were part of the organizing committee were as follows:

1. Ms. Satya Sharma, Mayor, East Delhi Municipal Cooporation
2. Mrs. Rathi Balachandran, ADG, Nursing MoHFW on behalf of Dr. Josephine, Nursing Advisor, MoHFW, GOI
3. Mrs. Anita Deodhar, President, TNAI
4. Mrs. Evelyn P Kannan, Newly elected Secretary General, TNAI
5. Mrs. Sanghamitra Sawant, Asst. Secretary General, Greater Noida office, TNAI, Delhi 
6. Mr. Ajinas A.M., Newly elected Asst. Secretary General, TNAI, Green Park Office, Delhi
7. Dr. K. K Aggarwal, Honorary Secretary General , IMA
8. Dr. Arun Gupta, President, Delhi Medical Council

Speakers of the day for the scientific session were:

1. Prof ((Dr.) Bimla Kapoor, Dean-IL&FS Skill Health Academy
2. Dr. Jyoti Sarin, Director-Principal, Mullana College of Nursing
3. Ms. Surekha Sama, Vice President, TNAI, North Region
4. Mrs.Bandana Bhattacharya, Ex-Principal, RAK College of Nursing
5. Dr. Sangeeta Sharma, Mullana Medical College 

I would like to share a few major points that were discussed during this meeting.   

• Nurses day celebration with tribute to florence nightingale
• IMA and TNAI jointly decided to conduct more such conferences and meetings wherein doctors and nurses can join together
• IMA declared to provide an opportunity to nurses for publishing the the research articles/scientific papers written by nurses in their journal IMA
• IMA also requested the same may be created by TNAI in their journal
• IMA decided to felicitate nurses in their forums and requested the same to TNAI, "this will help both nurses and doctors to know and honour health professionals who have excelled in their field" as mentioned by Dr. K K Aggarwal,  Honorary Secretary General , IMA
• Dr. Arun Gupta, President, Delhi Medical Council, declared to put forward a request to Delhi government for nominations of nurses working in private sector also in the awards sponsored by Delhi State Government along with doctors. He mentioned that there is a large number of nurses who work in private sector but are never recognized for their services.  
• Mrs. Rathi Balachandran, ADG, Nursing MoHFW unfolded the theme of this years International Nurses Day:"NURSES:A FORCE FOR CHANGE:IMPROVING HEALTH SYSTEM RESILIENCE". She taled about five types of resilience that nurses require personal as well as professional resilience to be successful health professionals 
• 10 senior nursing professionals were felicitated on this occasion by awarding them with citations   

These were some of the major points discussed along with scientific session on Doctor:Nurses Relationship and Panel discussion on New born Care as well as Welcome the girl child (Govt. initiative of Beti Bachao Andolan). 

It was indeed a wonderful experience to see nurses being felicitated by Medical fraternity and also to see both the fraternity at the same platform. This can be seen as a step ahead by both the associations to fill the gap between nurses and doctors in rendering best possible care to the patients. The delegates were assured that more such conferences and meeting will be organised in future to bring nurses and doctors to a single platform.

The video documentation of this meeting is available at the official site of IMA, those interested may visit their site for further information. 

I would request my fellow nursing collegues to come forward and start writing papers and publish them through this platform that IMA has opened up for all nurses around India. 

Hope this brief of the meeting finds useful to all of you.........

Thanks you

Regards

Deepti Damodaran