Department of Child Health Nursing

👶 Child Health Nursing

📘 Introduction:

The department is concerned with teaching and training student nurses for the delivery of health services to children through preventive, promotive, restorative and rehabilitative services. The purpose of this department is to prepare the students to identify the normal growth and development; needs/problems of children of various age groups and deviations from normal; recognise the basic concepts, principles and techniques of child care and the role of family in child caring. The department functions effectively under the guidance and supervision of experienced faculty, a well-equipped laboratory and the best clinical exposure facilities. Considering each child and family as a unit of society, the department follows quality and continuous improvement in the field of education, research, thereby ensuring continuous professional growth.

🎯 Vision:

The vision of the child health nursing department is to develop an understanding of the modern concept of child care, utilise the latest trends in caring for children and train the students to provide high-technology nursing care to children from neonates to adolescents.

🎯 Mission:

• • Prepare students to assume responsibilities as competent nurses in providing promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative services for the children of various age groups
• • Quality education through innovative methods for the provision of family-centred child health nursing care through competent nurse professionals with academic excellence
• • Foster an academic climate favourable for research and professional development
• • Monitor continuous quality improvement of all functional areas of the department

🎯 Objectives:

• • To identify the difference between adult and child in care, approach and treatment
• • To provide care for children with special consideration to growth, development and maturity
• • To analyse the importance of the prevention of illness and the remedial measures towards the same