Departments

About Dept.of Medical Surgical Nursing: Medical-surgical nursing is a specialty area of nursing that focuses on the care of adult patients with a wide range of medical and surgical conditions. Medical-surgical nurses are trained to provide comprehensive care to patients across the lifespan in various healthcare settings, including hospitals, clinics, and outpatient centers. Medical-surgical nursing requires strong clinical skills, critical thinking abilities, and the ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment. Nurses in this specialty must also possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills to establish therapeutic relationships with patients and families and effectively collaborate with the healthcare team. Key aspects of medical-surgical nursing: Assessment and Monitoring: Medical-surgical nurses assess patients' physical, psychological, and emotional needs, monitor vital signs, and observe for any changes. Patient Education: Nurses provide education to patients and families about conditions, treatments, medications, and self-care. Medication Administration: Nurses administer medications, monitor for adverse reactions, and educate patients on proper usage. Wound Care: Nurses assess and dress wounds, preventing infection and promoting healing. Postoperative Care: Nurses prepare patients for surgery, monitor recovery, manage pain, and prevent complications. Collaboration with Interdisciplinary Team: Nurses work with other healthcare professionals to develop individualized care plans and ensure coordinated care. Emergency Response: Nurses respond to medical emergencies, providing immediate interventions and coordinating care with other providers.

DESCRIPTION: This course is designed to develop basic understanding of the principles and standards of mental health nursing and skill in application of nursing process in assessment and care of patients with mental health disorders.

Introduction: A community may be defined in many different ways. one definition of community is 'a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government and often have a common cultural and historical heritage. Culture,ethnicity,age,gender,sexuality all of these can be characteristics which define a community.  Community health nursing is a population focused community oriented approach aimed at health promotion of an entire population and population of disease,disability and premature death in a population.  Concept of community:  A community is a collection of people who share some important features of their lives. It can be society of people holding common rights and previlage sharing interests, living under same laws and regulations.  The function of any community includes its members of collectives sense of belonging and their shared identity, values, norms, communication and common interests and concerns.   

Child Health Nursing is the art and science of giving nursing care to children from birth through adolescence with emphasis on the physical growth, mental, emotional and psycho-social development. The department actively participates in training the students to identify the normal growth and development of children and deviation from the normal and do research in the field of child health nursing. We train our nursing students to develop in-depth knowledge, skill and right attitude to function as neonatal and pediatric nurses to provide holistic nursing care to the sick and critically ill children at any given setting.

Goal of the department:  Obstetrical and gynaecological nursing department is dedicated to assist students in developing expertise and in depth understanding in the field of obstetric and gynaecological nursing. The basic motto is to help students to appreciate the client as a holistic individual and to develop knowledge and skills in rendering nursing care to normal and high risk pregnant women during antenatal, natal and post natal periods in hospitals and in community settings. It also helps students to develop skills in managing normal and high risk neonates and participate in family welfare programmes. The goal of the department is to mould students as an independent midwifery practitioner, as it will further enable them to function as educator, manager and researcher in the field of obstetric and gynaecological nursing.