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Acquire globalised education, nurses told

By Our Staff Reporter

VELLORE, JAN 29. A call to the nursing professionals to acquire "evidence-based knowledge and globalised-education" to face the changing cultural scenario was made by S.Thanikachalam, Vice-Chancellor of Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute (Deemed University), Porur.

The present day health care professionals, especially nursing professionals have to face more challenges than yester year. The present millennium was marked by conditions such as polluted air, hollow in the ozone layer, polluted water and soil, population explosion, depletion of natural resources, increasing sea bed and land erosion, changing social status, communal and religious disharmony with eventual aggression and increasing life style changes. ``Hence you may have to manage the increasing number of chronic airway obstruction pathologies, multi traumas, acute vascular syndromes, terminal cancer patients, mentally ill, AIDS victims and many more.'' Education was already globally oriented, hence health care professionals should imbibe training in such a fashion, to compete with others globally for their jobs, and be ready to work in any part of the world or in any cultural surrounding, said Dr.Thanikachalam in his Graduation Day address at the College of Nursing of the Christian Medical College here on Thursday.

The Vice-Chancellor of SRMCRI said that the nursing profession called for a definite role in research, which not only focussed on the discipline of nursing, but also on issues facing nurses themselves. Nurses had to play a pivotal role between patient and doctor. ``The ideal patient-nurse relationship is based on thorough knowledge of the patient, on mutual trust and on the ability to communicate with one another,'' he said.

Punitha Ezhilarasu, Dean, College of Nursing presented the awards. Jayaprakash Muliyil, Principal, CMC, distributed the prizes to the meritorious graduates. In all 225 candidates received their diplomas, graduate degrees, post-basic diplomas and post-graduate degrees in nursing.

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