ISHA’s CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
OF NURSING PERSONNEL IN INDIA

1.    In the last 58 years, since Independence, there has been a phenomenal growth in the health field in India: production of medical, nursing and allied manpower; establishment of health institutions – government, corporate, private, and voluntary sector; pharmaceutical, medical, technology, and information technology. With most modern, high-tech health care supported by qualified, competent and available health manpower, India has emerged as a major health center for Middle East, African, European, and Western countries.

2.    Keeping in view the needs for health manpower and systems development, and realizing that quality of nursing manpower is essential for quality health care, Indian Society of Health Administrators (ISHA) Bangalore, has contributed extensively in the last 26 years towards capacity building of medical, nursing, and allied health manpower. The attached note gives information about our capacity building programmes.

3.    There is a shortage of nursing manpower particularly teaching faculty. Also, there is a high brain drain of nurses to European and Western countries since there is a shortage of manpower in those countries.

4.    For quality health care, it is essential that nurses are competent, committed, have compassion and are able to communicate effectively, particularly with critical patients. This is what we try to achieve in our training courses on clinical and administrative updates for nursing personnel.

The course outline covers the following areas:

A.    Medical and Health Services in India; Role and Requirements of Nursing Personnel; Problems of Nursing         Management: Role Clarity and Job Descriptions

B.    Nursing Administration in Hospitals: Public, Industrial, Corporate, Voluntary; Planning and Organization of Nursing         Services; Administrative Functions in Hospitals; Job Descriptions of Nursing Personnel at various levels

C.    Patient Nursing Care Management: Understanding Patients Nursing Care Needs of Different Categories of Patients:         Quality Assurance in Nursing; Action Plans for Patient Satisfaction and Quality Assurance; Counselling patients

D.    Management of Wards, Laundry, CSSD, Outpatients, Emergency, Materials Management, Use of Computers in         education, research, and management of nursing care.

E.    Infection Control and Universal Precautions; Infection Control in Key Areas; Operating Room Nursing Practice ;        Hospital Clinical Waste Management

F.    HRD Management: Leadership and supervision for nursing care; motivation of nursing personnel; interpersonal         relations; team work; delegation;

G.    Professional Updating; Legal aspects of health care; HIV-AIDS; Stress Related Disorders; Computer Applications;         Clinical Meetings; Nursing Care Audits; Critical Nursing Care; Psychiatric, cardiac, cancer and other terminal         patients.

    Our contributions to nursing manpower development in India:

A.     Training Programmes in Competency Building

(a)    ISHA has organized to-date 38 training courses at national level of 10 days to two weeks duration. These courses         are conducted in different parts of India.

(b)    ISHA has conducted over 100 training programmes for Public Sector Industrial Hospitals – Steel Authority, Coal         India, BHEL, NTPC, Nuclear Power Corporation, Government Hospitals, and Voluntary Health Institutions.

(c)    Four training programmes of 10-days duration for West Bengal Health Systems Development Project, Kolkata,         covering over 100 matrons, tutors.

(d)    Four training programmes of 10-days duration for Orissa Health Systems Development Project, Bhubaneswar,         covering over 100 senior nurses.

(e)    Six training programmes for Tamil Nadu Government Nurses – Matrons, Tutors – covering over 400 senior nurses.

B.     Publications.

    -    ISHA has brought out series of publications for Nursing Personnel

    -    Clinical Updates and Management of Nursing Services – 2001

    -    Hospital Clinical Waste Management and Infection Control – 2003

    -    HIV-AIDS Prevention and Control; Role of Nursing Personnel

C.     Films

        Patient Satisfaction and Quality Assurance

D.     Competency Based Distance Learning Programme

        Since large number of nursing personnel cannot take leave for two weeks and cannot be sponsored by their respective organizations, ISHA has initiated one year competency building programmes for nursing personnel in the following areas:

a)    Clinical Updates for Nurses

b)    Administrative and Management Updates for Nurses

c)    Counselling Techniques

d)    Legal Aspects of Medical Care

e)    Public Health Nursing

f)    Emergency Nursing Care

    We would be very happy to organize training programmes for nursing personnel keeping in view your needs.