Departments

The department of Child Health Nursing was established to provide a Multimodal approach for budding the graduates in pediatrics.

The UG & PG scholars have wide open opportunities to be trained in Pediatric nursing through well-organized discussions, seminars, clinical teaching, journal club presentation, CNE, Guest lecture and clinical demonstration to nurturing their skills to be a self- directed learner with the use of appropriate learning resources in classroom as well as in clinical setting

Journal club is a group of individuals who meet regularly to critically evaluate recent articles. To accomplish with enormous credit, our department organizes journal club presentation on various topics every year.

In order to combat with the advances of medical education the students receive quality training at our parent hospitals, Vinayaka Mission's Hospital and Vinayaka Mission's Kirupanandavariyar Medical College Hospital.

The Outreach activities of Pediatric nursing department include child labour awareness programme, breastfeeding week -Exhibition, immunization week, neonatal week and inter-collegiate quiz competition.

The department of Obstetrics and Gynecology nursing permits students to appreciate the complete birthing experience and provides capabilities in advanced life support, obstetrics and neonatal resuscitation protocols and high risk maternal care. Experienced Nursing faculty members with doctoral qualification is an added strength to our department.

The vision is to provide the best exclusive education, practice and research related to Obstetrics and Gynaecology Nursing. We aim to deliver a first class, high quality services, providing safe and effective care by skilled professionals, delivered in a cost effective manner.

The mission of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Nursing department is to enrich the life of women and children by offering most effective nursing education to professionals towards optimizing health of women and children in an ever changing health care environment.

The faculty values integrity, honesty, openness, personal excellence, constructive self-criticism, continual self-improvement, mutual respect and have a passion to serve with high performance through corporate & clinical governance to achieve best outcomes for everyone.

We have a well furnished laboratory with latest high tech manikins and various models used for learning purpose. The students are getting opportunity to practice procedures in the demonstration lab before handling the mothers.

The students are getting best academic education from the enthusiastic and energetic faculty. The faculty are refreshing and updating their knowledge by attending seminars, CNEs in different colleges throughout India.

The departmental library has books for specialty, procedure manuals, instrument books, research and basic nursing procedures. We also have adequate audiovisual aids for teaching and learning such as LCD, OHP, models and blackboards.

Clinical facilities are a backbone to link theory into practice. Clinical area with scrupulous variety of clinical condition promotes ideal learning for undergraduates and post graduates. Class rooms attached to clinical area promotes conducive learning atmosphere. Case presentation, clinical demonstration, care studies, bed side rounds, clinical conference, health education is practiced by our students with the help of faculty.

The students are open to the essentials of the specialty at the Department of OBG in Vinayaka Mission's Medical College Hospital, Vinayaka Mission's Hospital, Corporation maternity centre, Salem and Primary Health Centers at Salem.

Community health nursing is the branch of nursing concerned with the health of populations. It strives to protect and promote the health and well-being of the community through the Primary Health Care approach.

The faculties create a positive and caring environment for student's development and learning. A variety of teaching methods and materials were used for teaching 7 learning. The faculty also plan informative sessions that involve individual development and team work also the teaching and learning of the students are based on the felt need of the community for health promotion & disease prevention at primary, secondary and tertiary level.

School Health Services are conducted periodically to identify the health problems of school children.

As part of the curriculum requirement, students visit water purification plant, milk dairy unit, old age Home, orphanage home, TB Centre, slaughter House, cancer Centre, Block Development Office, ICDS Centre and Bio Medical Waste Management.

Journal club presentations are conducted every month by the faculties of community health department and Guest lecture classes are also arranged.

In lieu of health related important days, our department conducts programs such as Exhibition Health awareness campaign, awareness rally & nutrition education, Exhibition on breast feeding week and Pulse polio programme.

Psychiatric nursing is a specialized nursing response to people experiencing problems between cognitive, behavioral or emotional functioning. This department provides multimodal approach in the field of Psychiatric nursing.

• Motivate the students to practice their knowledge to become an efficient professional mental health nurse.
• Develop skills and attitudes to carryout comprehensive nursing care for mentally ill persons and psychological aspects of client with physical disorders.
• Carryout research activities in the areas of mental health/illness in clinical and community settings.
• Provide holistic care to Clients with various psychiatric disorders by using recent techniques.
• To appreciate evidence based nursing practice and narrow down the gaps between theory, practice and research.

The department under the experienced and dedicated faculty render quality based education to the undergraduate and post graduate students to assist them in developing expertise and in depth understanding in the field of Psychiatric Nursing.

The students are open to the essentials of the specialty at the Department of Psychiatric in Vinayaka Mission's Kirupananda Variyar Medical College and Hospital, Salem and Manoraksha Mental Health Centre, Gajalnaickenpatty, Salem

Students are given opportunity to excel their clinical experience in mental health nursing at National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS) Bengaluru, Karnataka.

The department is also committed to provide opportunities for professional growth, including a fully individualized orientation, support for participation in professional development activities and various in-service programmes for the faculty and students.

Journal Clubs are held every month in the college campus for faculty and students to critically evaluate recent articles in the academic literature, generally of some public importance.

Guest lectures help the student to become more familiar with the advanced literature in their field of mental health nursing also improves the students skill of understanding and debating current topics of active interest in their field.

Psychiatric Nursing care is also extended to the rural and urban community. Health education, Rally, Psychodrama, Mime, Quiz competition, Health and Memory screening camp, Group meetings and Counseling programs has been organized periodically to improve the awareness about mental health to the society and doing referral services and necessary help for the people with disturbed mental status.