Department of Medical Surgical Nursing

🩺 Medical Surgical Nursing

📘 Introduction:

The Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing prepares students to become competent in practising nursing in various Medical and Surgical clinical areas. The faculty in the department trains students to acquire knowledge related to wellness, health promotion, illness, nursing management, patients with various medical and surgical disease conditions, palliative and hospice care. The students are prepared to provide quality nursing care incorporating the principles of safety, communication, teamwork and collaboration and evidence-based practice to patients across life span with a positive attitude. The activities of the department focus on competency-based skill training, developing leadership skills and research potential among students and faculty.

🎯 Vision:

To create a new generation of global professional nurses trained to the highest levels of competence, committed to excellence in delivering compassionate care in a wide range of medical and surgical settings, nursing education, research, practice and service.

🎯 Mission:

To keep abreast with the recent advances in the field of Medical Surgical Nursing and develop dynamic nurses to be clinicians, educators, leaders, innovators and researchers in the wide range of medical and surgical settings.

🎯 Objectives:

• • To equip the students with scientific knowledge and develop proficiency in caring for patients with medical-surgical disorders in various health care settings and in the community with evidence-based practice
• • To equip the students to appreciate the patients as a holistic individual and develop skills to function as a specialised medical-surgical nurse to assume various roles as a leader.

🎯 Core Values:

• • Patient-centred care
• • Professionalism
• • Caring
• • Teamwork and collaboration
• • Learning
• • Quality improvement
• • Evidence-based practice