By Tricitynews
Chandigarh 24th
April:- The Post Graduate Institute of
Medical Education and Research will be holding 2nd convocation
for National Institute of Nursing Education(NINE) on Thursday, 25th April
2019. Honorable Governor of Punjab and the Administrator of U.T., Chandigarh V.P.
Singh Badnore will be the Chief Guest on this occasion. More than 400
candidates will be awarded degrees as well as silver and bronze medals to the
outstanding candidates.
The Nursing Institute was established
in 1964 as College of Nursing due to the foresight & concerted effort by
Late Pratap Singh Kairon, the then Chief Minister and other distinguished
medical educationists of Punjab State as a part of PGIMER & was academically
affiliated to Panjab University, Chandigarh. Since then, College of Nursing had
been contributing to the quality preparation of Clinical Nurses, Nurse
Educators, Nurse Administrators & researchers to provide preventive,
promotive, curative & rehabilitative services to the sick or well. During
the 8thfive year plan the college of nursing was upgraded to
National Institute of Nursing Education in 2003 & new campus of NINE was
inaugurated on 28th March, 2003 by Sushma Swaraj, the then
Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare. This has been the premier
Institute in North India to meet the human resources needs with regard to
nurses. NINE is W.H.O collaborating center for Nursing and Midwifery since
2007.
NINE was taken over by PGIMER in 2009
by the act of Parliament, & presently runs three courses in Nursing i.e.
B.Sc. Nursing (4 years), B.Sc. Nursing Post Basic (for 2 years) and M.Sc.
Nursing (2 years)in five Specialties i.e. Mental Health Nursing, Community
Health Nursing, Child Health Nursing, Obstetrics & Gynecological Nursing,
and Medical Surgical Nursing (with super-Specialties in Cardio-vascular &
Thoracic Nursing, Oncology Nursing, Critical Care Nursing, Nephrology nursing,
and Neuroscience Nursing) as well as Ph.D. in Nursing with intake of 93, 62, 31
students respectively every year. Hence, 155 graduates and 31 post graduates in
Nursing pass out each year. It reflects the vision of its pioneers who
emphasized the need for developing self-sufficiency in manpower development for
hospital in all nursing specialties & super specialty for India &
abroad including training of nursing teachers, administrators & researchers
to meet global requirement. Faculty of NINE has strived hard to achieve the
objective to provide evidence based, cost effective, safe and comprehensive
quality patient care through nursing students & engage in good quality
research.
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