The College of Nursing is structured into 5 major academic departments such as, Medical Surgical Nursing, Child Health Nursing, Community Health Nursing, Mental Health Nursing and Obstetrics and Gyneacologic Nursing.
The nursing department's faculty members are dedicated to excellence in service learning, teaching, and research. The importance of upholding the highest professional standards when providing patient care is emphasized throughout nursing education. The departments work to ensure that students develop holistically through a well-balanced mix of academic and extracurricular activities.
Medical Surgical Nursing is a broad specialty of nursing and it deals with the nursing care of patients with various medical surgical conditions. It forms a larger part of the B. Sc. Nursing curriculum. The faculty of the department imparts in depth knowledge to the students by various innovative teaching methods. Methods like seminars, symposiums, role plays, video assisted teaching, group discussions, care studies, care analysis, case presentations and procedure demonstrations are used to enhance the knowledge and skills of the students. As part of the clinical experience in Medical Surgical Nursing, students are posted in various medical surgical wards, OPDs, Intensive care units, operation theatres and specialty areas like Cardiology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, radiology, dermatology, Nephrology, eye and ENT units. The nursing process approach is used to provide nursing care to patients by which the students assess the client problems, formulate the nursing diagnoses and objectives, plan and implement nursing care, and evaluate the effectiveness of care.
Mental Health Nursing is designed for developing and understanding of modern concepts of mental health, mental illness, principles of mental health nursing and for making the student function effectively as a member of the interdisciplinary Mental health team. The Mental Health Nursing Department organizes programs aimed at enabling the students to identify the mental health needs and problems of their clients and to acquire skill in providing comprehensive health care to them, applying preventive, promotive, curative and rehabilitative aspects of mental health care and the principles of mental health nursing. This is achieved by the expert guidance of the psychiatric nursing faculty and other members of the mental health team including Psychiatrists, Clinical psychologists, Psychiatric social workers, etc. Their clinical experience is enriched from observational visits to various facilities including psychiatric rehabilitation centres, residential care facilities, special schools for the mentally retarded, and children with physical and psychological disabilities, de-addiction centres, orphanages and old age homes. The department also offers student support and guidance services for students having psychological and adjustment problems.
Obstetrics and Gynaecologic Nursing Obstetrics and Gynaecological Nursing focus on the care of women during the child bearing years. The scope of practice includes reproductive child health, care during pregnancy, labour and puerperium including condution of normal deliveries, family welfare, and care of women with gynecological problems. The course in obstetric and gynecologic nursing prepare the students with the knowledge, skill and attitude to function as nurse midwives. The theory and practical learning experience provided in the subject equip them to provide comprehensive care to the normal and high risk mothers during antenatal, intra natal and postnatal period including the care of newborns. The students are given clinical experience in the antenatal and postnatal wards, OPDs, labour room, gynec operation theatre, and gynec wards under the guidance of specialized faculty.
Child Health Nursing is a speciality which focus on nursing care of children, both normal and sick. The objective of the course is to prepare students to identify the normal growth and development of children and deviation from the normal, give comprehensive nursing care to children suffering from various diseases. The faculty of the department imparts in depth knowledge to the students by various innovative teaching methods. Methods like seminars, symposiums, role plays, video assisted teaching, group discussions, care studies, care analysis, case presentations and procedure demonstrations are used to enhance the knowledge and skills of the students. The students are given clinical experience in pediatric medical, surgical wards and OPDs apart from theory classes.
Community Health Nursing is the specialty that prepares the students to meet the ever changing challenges of society. The course orients the students to the concept of positive health and successful living and focuses on the families in the community and population groups with health risks. The students identify and solve health problems in the community through innovative and cost effective strategies of primary health care. The practical experience is provided in settings like Navabharath rural health Centre (Munambam) and Chaithanya Urban Health Centre (N.Paravoor)in collaboration with the Department of Community Medicine.
This experience includes opportunities for participation in various National Health Programmes and guided observation visits to various locations of public health importance. The Department organizes household surveys, epidemiological investigations, health projects, mass campaigns, home visits, health care programs, school health programs, special clinics, etc. in the urban and rural health centres . The awareness campaigns, exhibitions, and health education activities organized in the villages to train the students effectively to interact with the community on health topics. Thus, this department is acting as the campus-community link of the college.
