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“Communication skills essential for nurses”

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UPGRADING THE SKILLS: P.V.Ramachandran, Chairman of Nursing Education, Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute, Chennai, delivering a lecture at the CNE programme in Puducherry on Sunday.

PUDUCHERRY: Exhorting nurses to take up higher education, Chairman of Nursing Education of Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute, Chennai, P.V. Ramachandran, said that at present nursing profession was suffering from the want of excellent communication skills.

Delivering a lecture on ‘Leadership abilities of nurses in ward management’ during a Continuing Nurse Education (CNE) programme on Sunday, Mr. Ramachandran said nurses should develop better communication skills.

“Ward management is one of the pre-requisites for good nursing care. Today, the profession is more of an amalgamation of behavioural sciences. This is paving way to democratic leadership styles in nursing,” Mr. Ramachandran said.

He enlisted the essential qualities of nurses as sound knowledge, good judgment skills, responsibility and task completion, directive behaviour and spirit of collaboration.

“The ward in-charge nurse should orient the new staff as it would help to have excellent output from the unit. The nurses at work, facilities available and type of procedures carried out in the wards should be observed,” he added.

With the duty of nurses being to enhance the facilities for the patients, he said the delegation of duties was inevitable in any administration.

“Nurses need to establish good interpersonal relationship and also sport a cheerful look in the wards,” Mr. Ramachandran said. He wanted nurses to take up Ph.D to work in wards and also in teaching institutions.

Around 80 persons, including in-service nurses, nursing superintendents, matrons and nursing students of various institutions, participated in the programme.

“The CNE programme is aimed at updating the knowledge of the nurses.

It was started six months ago and is conducted every month,” project director of the programme H. Ranganath said. Course coordinator V. Raajeshwari also spoke.

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