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Kalam sees greater role for nurses

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NEW DELHI: President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has asked nurses to become knowledge workers so that they could treat patients who need special care.

"Nurses have to become knowledge workers because of the advancement in healthcare technologies. Today with the rapid advancements in healthcare system and creation of specialities and super specialities in medicine, there is definitely need to look at the super specialities needed in nursing to complement the doctors," he said at the inauguration of the 7th Asian Cardiac Nursing conference here on Tuesday.

He said the Indian Nursing Council (INC) had prepared a short term syllabus for nursing in critical care, emergency and disaster, oncology, neo-natal, psychiatric and neurology and recommended hastening the process of preparing and printing of a short term syllabus for cardio-thoracic nursing, orthopaedic and rehabilitation nursing and operation room nursing.

"This will enable the availability of professionally qualified nurses for treating the patients who need special care," he said, adding that the Council should review the courses regularly in view of continuous technological change.

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