J P Nadda Confers Degrees to the Students NINE on its First Convocation

By Tricitynews Reporter

Chandigarh 06^th August:- While congratulating the new degree holders, faculty and Principal of National Institute of Nursing Education (NINE)  J P Nadda, Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare praised the nurses for winning various national and international awards like Florence Nightingale Award, the Best Educationist Award and the Glory of India Award.  

J P Nadda said that the responsibility for successful achievement of the goal of healthy society lies not only with the concerned policy makers and doctors but also with the largest workforce of the health system-the nurses.  While enumerating the qualities of a good qualified nurse he said that a nurse must be equipped with the habit of observation, punctuality, obedience, cleanliness, sense of proportion, and capacity for effective therapeutic communication. She must possess compassion and positive attitude towards caring. PGI’ Nursing teachers have given you these qualities and habits.

J P Nadda also informed the audience about the recent initiatives undertaken for strengthening of nursing cadre which are: Establishment of new ANM and GNM Schools; Up gradation of institutions from School of Nursing to College of Nursing; Revision of curriculum for all nursing programs, New ‘Nurse Practitioner courses’; Nurses registration Tracking System (Live Register) and the proposed ‘Nursing Practice Act’ which will empower nurses and more reforms can be done in Nursing regulation.

Earlier Prof. Yogesh Chawla, Director PGI welcomed the Chief Guest and informed the audience about the progress PGI has made in the last three years on technological and research fronts. While talking about telemedicine in the Institute he said, “The tele-link with other Institutes and district hospitals helps us in transmitting our education programmes especially our CPCs and give consultations to doctors treating patients. 

The Institute has many state-of-the-art facilities for patient care which are comparable to the best medical Institutes of the world. Our transplant program has taken a giant leap in recent years. Eye (300), Renal (250), Bone Marrow (30) and liver transplants (6) are well established. Last year PGI conducted 2 Heart transplants and this year 7 combined Pancreas Kidney Transplant, which is largest in the country. Many families have generously donated organs of their deceased loved ones so much so that PGI has the largest organ donations in a public sector hospital anywhere in the country. We have also been able to introduce the organ donations pledge in Driving License in Chandigarh. With public support the number of voluntary eye donations has increased from 266 in 2013 to 514 in 2015.  Regional Organ and Tissue Transplantation Organization (ROTTO) Centre at PGI would further strengthen the organ donation.

The Institute recently procured several hi-tech equipments for enhancing patient care to keep ourselves abreast with best in the world. These include the state-of-the-art da Vinci HD system for Robot assisted laparoscopic operations; offering minimally invasive treatment for kidney, urinary bladder and prostate cancers. The robotic surgery facility is now extended to ENT and gynecological surgeries as well. We also acquired Irreversible Electroporation, a device which helps in treating inoperable tumors of the pancreas, liver and retroperitoneal lesions. This is the first of its kind in the country for which we get referrals from Delhi, Bombay and many other parts of India.  

Today we have added many more facilities in our list by inaugurating the Sleep Lab in ENT, first in North India in a surgical set up, Child Friendly MRI first in the country and Femtosecond Laser Assisted Cataract Surgery also known as Robotic Cataract Surgery with computer controlled precision to automate the most difficult steps of cataract procedure.  It has advanced diagnostic systems as well again first of its kind in India.   A new facility called Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS), a non-invasive brain stimulation technique used in the treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder and depression has also been started at our Institute.  The Institute has also acquired Cone Beam Computed Tomography for 3 dimensional imaging of head and neck region, with one-tenth the radiation dose and half the cost of conventional CT.

While informing the guests about the history and achievements of Nursing Institute of Nursing Education Dr Sandhya Ghai, Principal of the Institute said that the institute conducts B.Sc. Nursing (4 years) course with 93 seats, B.Sc. Nursing (Post Basic) 62 seats & M.Sc. Nursing 31 seats in five specialties i.e. Mental Health Nursing, Obstetric. & Gyane., Pediatrics Nursing, community Health Nursing, Med. Surg. Nursing and further sub specialties in cardio-thoracic, Critical Care, Neurology, Nephrology, Gastroenterology and oncology Nursing.

At present, there are over 500 students pursuing the undergraduate & Post Graduate nursing courses and Ph.D. Till 2015, 354 Post graduate, and 3105 graduates have passed out from this Institute since its inception.

The Chief Guest honoured eight silver and eight bronze medalists. More than five hundred students were awarded degrees. 

Amongst the distinguished guests present were Kirron Kher, Hon’ble Member of Parliament from Chandigarh, Prof Arun Grover, Vice Chancellor of Panjab University,  former Directors, Deans and faculty of the Institute.