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January 6, 2011
Report of the First National Seminar on, “Reshaping Nursing Profession in Indian Hospitals” and First Nursing Core Committee Meeting, Quality Council of India – by Dr. Prof. Jothi Clara J Micheal, Nursing Director @ Global Hospitals and Health City, Chennai
In a modern day-and-age as the present times, the health care industry is making progress in leaps and bounds towards greater standards in providing treatment facilities. And for such innovations to be effective at the bed side we need to equip the nurses with advanced knowledge and competence in a manner such that they will be able to prove themselves.
An exclusive accreditation within the nursing domain is Magnet Status, which is one of its kind gaining rapid momentum in the developed countries. In India, it is the right time to rise to the occasion as Nursing is entering into a new phase and to jointly put our hands together to give nursing profession a proud legacy and heritage. Such accreditation process within Nursing in the Indian context is felt necessary by the Global Group of Hospitals. Being one among the NABH certified youngest hospitals, GHHC extrapolated resources from Quality Council of India (QCI), NABH, reputed institutions and their eminent nursing leaders across India and The Tamil Nadu Nurses and Midwives Council and initiated a platform to bring visibility for clinical nursing profession.
Keeping these thoughts in mind and to convert dreams to achievable goals, Dr. K Ravindranath, Chairman and Managing Director, Global Group of Hospitals, Dr. R V Karanjekar, Executive Director, Medical services, Global Group of Hospitals, Chairman, Accreditation Committee, NABH, Chairperson, Nursing Core Committee, Quality Council of India and Dr. Jothi Clara, Nursing Director, GHHC in collaboration with member representatives from QCI and other eminent nurse leaders, educators, administrators from health care organizations, hospitals and educational institutions in India, hosted its First National Seminar on, “Reshaping Nursing Profession in Indian Hospitals,” on January 6th, 2011 at 10:00am, Auditorium, Global Hospitals and Health City, Chennai.
The aim of this seminar was to sensitize the government and the non-government organizations, stake holders, general public, professional and the regulating bodies and the entire nursing community to arrive at resolutions and recommendations for furthering clinical nursing in hospitals across India.
Dr. Rosemary Smith, Dean and Dr. Prof. Jaya Jambunathan, Director Research & Evaluation and Assistant Dean, College of Nursing, University of Wisconsin, USA, were our invited speakers and the guests of honor who oriented us on Changing Culture of Health Care Delivery: Implications for Professional Nursing Leadership (IOM) Transformational Leadership and Overview of American Nurses Credentialing Centre (ANCC) Magnet Recognition Program: Forces of Magnetism. Dr. Josephine R Little Flower, Registrar, The Tamil Nadu and Midwives Council was also present to dialogue on Safe and Quality Nursing Practice: Credentialing, Licensing and Previleging.
Dr. Girdhar J Gyani, Secretary General, Quality Council of India and CEO of NABH and Dr. Karanjekar, presided over the seminar and the chaired the meet. Dr. Girdhar J Gyani, Secretary General, Quality Council of India and CEO of NABH promised to the gathering that QCI will take all initiative to bring it into reality and the start in now and today at GHHC and the possibilities were explored and a new title for the quality drive gave birth at the First Nursing Core Committee Meeting, Quality Council of India. The outcome of the days function and the meet was “ NANE – National Accreditation for Nursing Excellence” which would be one of the quality driving force similar to one in developing countries – Magnet Status Hospitals [the 'Forces of Magnetism' as the characteristics displayed by health care organizations that develop and maintain a professional practice environment that helps recruit and retain nurses"]. The core committee members will be pillars to build on the foundation made on this day.
- Report submitted by Dr. Prof. Jothi Clara J Micheal, Nursing Director @ Global Hospitals and Health City, Chennai
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Really conducting the seminars on health brings the awareness among the people.
This is first of its kind and hats off to the organisers. In a country where Nursing is looked down by all, NANE is a great initiative. As a Nursing leader of a reputed organisation, I along with each ambitiuos Nursing leaders want this to come to pass.My only concern here is, would this be translated to efficient patient care and how far eduactional institutions are focussing on creating and moulding nurses to be compassionate nurses and at the same time assertive nurses!! I notice this on a day to day basis and feel disheartened by the attitude todays nurses are coming up with.It requires quality students in our system to make this profession a prestigeous one and a most sort after one. When we compromise on our admission criteria, everything goes for toss including quality.Can as Nursing leaders, we voice this conern out to the people concerned??Does the current Nursing curriculum meet the expectation of the service Industry?……Together Nurses can make a big difference to health care Industry. Good Luck to all
Dear M’am Punita,
I am a PG student from Pune and i came to know about you from the list of PhD guides published by WHO consortium. I truely agree with you and have the same concerns about nursing standards.I will be joining as a nurse educator shortly. As a young nurse educator, how can i make a difference in training our student nurses? I have a vision and want to make a difference. Kindly advice.
Regards
Nisa Gopidas
Dear Nisa, apologies for the delayed response.As you are taking up this challenging responsibility of creating better nurses for tomorrow, let me wish you all the best and let me congratulate you!!
My concern today about the emerging nursing community is indeed worrying. The young nurses are somehow lacking the basic caring feature of a NURSE. They are so mechanical in the way they perform their duties. The human touch is found to be dying. No education can bring this into them except teachers like you inculcate these values into them during their college days. Along with the medical surgical nursing, pediatric nursing, community nursing, obstetric nursing, teach them what is real nursing all about. Encourage them to be passionate about their profession and to be compassionate towards their patients while caring for them. i’m sure your students will make a difference. Good Luck!!