ADULT HEALTH NURSING

OVERVIEW:-
The Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing is dedicated to offering comprehensive courses focused on adult nursing and advanced nursing practices, all designed in accordance with the curriculum set forth by the Indian Nursing Council (INC). This department prioritises a student-centred approach to teaching and learning, providing a supportive environment that emphasises hands-on experience. This practical approach is instrumental in enhancing students confidence in their nursing knowledge, skills, and professional attitudes.

The faculty members are committed to facilitating the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and attitudes essential for addressing the evolving needs of diverse patient populations. They recognize the significance of adapting to changes in patient demographics, the complexity of diseases, and advancements in healthcare technologies.

Clinical services offered by the department encompass a wide range of activities, including the clinical supervision of students, patient care, in-service education, and the organisation of awareness programs and health screenings. Additionally, the department engages in clinical administration and research initiatives. These services are provided across various areas of CSSH Hospital, such as general medical and surgical wards, outpatient departments, specialty wards, critical care units, intensive care units, operating rooms, and diagnostic and procedural areas.

The practice scope within medical-surgical nursing is firmly grounded in evidence-based approaches, particularly regarding procedural aspects and patient care. To build proficiency and confidence among students, critical procedures are practised using simulated patients, allowing them to gain the necessary skills before engaging with actual patients in clinical settings. Furthermore, the curriculum encompasses learning about adult health issues, including geriatrics, ensuring that students are thoroughly equipped to deliver comprehensive care to a wide array of patients.

1. PHILOSOPHY:-
   The Medical and Surgical Nursing Department is grounded in the belief that nursing plays a vital role in enhancing health services within communities, particularly in rural settings. Our philosophy encompasses several key aspects:
   • - **Contribution to Health Services: ** We recognize nursing as an integral component of the healthcare delivery system, committed to improving health outcomes in village populations and beyond.
   • - **Identifying Health Needs: ** Our focus is on understanding and identifying the health needs of individuals and communities. This involves assessing the specific healthcare challenges faced by the population we serve.
   • - **Collaborative Care: ** We believe in the importance of collaboration among healthcare professionals and community groups. By planning and providing care as a team, we enhance the efficacy and reach of health services.
   • - **Promotive, Preventive, and Curative Care: ** Our philosophy emphasises a holistic approach that includes promotive, preventive, and curative aspects of care. We address the full spectrum of health services, ensuring that patients receive comprehensive support.
   • - **Interdisciplinary Foundation: ** Our practices are informed by the principles and applications derived from physical, biological, and behavioural sciences, as well as advanced medical and surgical nursing. This interdisciplinary approach ensures that our care is evidence-based and tailored to individual patient needs.
   Through this philosophy, the Medical and Surgical Nursing Department is dedicated to fostering a healthier community by delivering quality care, education, and support across diverse healthcare settings.
2. AIMS:-
   • Apply the knowledge from physical, biological and behavioural sciences, medicine including alternative treatment.
   • Providing nursing care to individuals, families and communities.
   • Demonstrate understanding of lifestyle and other factors that affect the health status of individuals
   • Provide nursing care based on steps of the nursing process in collaboration with the individuals and group.
   • Utilise the latest trends and technology to provide health care.
   • Demonstrate critical thinking skills to making decisions in all situations in order to provide quality care.
3. ACTIVITIES:-
   • Organise seminar, CNE, faculty clinical presentation, workshop, conference and rapid review
   • Supervision of the students in the clinical areas
   • Coordinate among members to attend professional activities
   • Communicate relevant events of the dept. to various institutions outside the university
   • Observe health related days collaboratively with various departments of the university
   • Conduct collaborative research
   • Take part in patient care activities and clinical administration
   • Integrate with nursing service to provide quality nursing care
   • Observation of all health days
4. THRUST AREAS
   • Building value added courses in advanced nursing practice.
   • Unify and implement patient care standards and models in a clinical setting.
   • Qualitative research to enhance quality life of patients
   • Standardisation of nursing care plan based on prevalence of disease pattern and learner specific
   • Encouraging the innovative, digital learning for evidenced care
   • Collaborate for interdisciplinary research

ADULT HEALTH NURSING-ADVANCE SKILL LAB

Advance Skill Nursing lab is designed to assist students in developing expertise and in-depth knowledge in the field of Adult HealthNursing. Nursing is an art and science that needs a lot of practice. It is the practical area of the students, where they perform all nursing procedures prior to the exposure to the clinical field. It aims at making students proficient in assessing and caring for adult patients suffering from various medical surgical disorders.The lab is equipped with all sophisticated equipment and manikins to facilitate transition to actual clinical settings. A large collection of nursing models, manikins, instruments, comfort devices are available for full practical simulation of patient care. It provides hands-on learning experiences specific to course objectives as directed by the nursing curriculum.

MISSION

• The mission of the Advance Skill Lab (ASL) is to provide students extensive experience in discipline specific and collaborative, multidisciplinary, team-based clinical simulations using standardised patients (SPs) and patient simulators.

OBJECTIVES
On completion of the course, the students will be able to:

• Develop understanding about the concept of health, illness and scope of nursing within health care services.
• Apply the principles and methods of effective communication in establishing communication links with patients, families and other health team members
• Provide individual simulated patient scenarios and collaborative, team-based healthcare delivery scenarios to improve students’ patient care skills and clinical decision-making abilities.
• Providing inter-professional clinical training for allied health and advanced practice students, and medical residents and nurses from local healthcare training facilities and healthcare organisations/providers.
• Develop understanding about fundamentals of health assessment and perform health assessment in supervised clinical settings
• Describe the principles and techniques of infection control and biomedical waste management
• Perform admission, transfer, and discharge of a patient under supervision applying the knowledge
• Identify the educational needs of patients and demonstrate basic skills of patient education.