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Nurses who don't even know how to pick a vein

By Our Staff Reporter

KANCHEEPURAM, OCT. 14. The mushrooming of nursing colleges is harming the nursing profession, according to Satish Chawla, president of the Trained Nurses Associations of India.

Talking to The Hindu at Melmaruvathur, Ms. Chawla said that it was sad to note that hundreds of students, who did not even know how to pick a vein, had been certified as qualified to take up the profession.

She was taking part in the Platinum Jubilee of Student Nurses Association (a wing of TNAI) at Adhiparasakthi College of Nursing.

No statutory body

Though the colleges and universities that offered nursing courses adopted the syllabus framed by the Indian Nursing Council, there was no statutory body in the country to monitor the way in which the nursing course examinations were conducted.

Pointing out that several lecturer's posts in nursing colleges and the post of nursing superintendents in hospitals were lying vacant, Ms. Chawla said unless these issues were addressed immediately, migration of nurses could not be checked.

At the least, the Government should think of conducting continuing education programmes for nurses, especially to the Auxiliary Nursing Mid-wives who played a crucial role in village health care programmes.

Further, the intention to provide best medical facilities for rural people under the proposed `rural health care' programme, which is likely to be launched by the Union Government, might fail to bring in results unless the anomalies in nursing education and profession were removed.

The former president of TNAI, S.A. Samuel, claimed that nursing profession was no more a para-medical service. Of late, nurses were also made to acquaint themselves with the latest technological advancements in medical treatment so that they could provide an efficient support to the treatment given by doctors to a patient.

At present, nurses were not included in the purchase committee of hospitals and as a result they were forced to take care of the patients with equipment and materials, which on many occasions may not suit the type of treatment intended for the patients.

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