Department Profile
The Child Health Nursing Department is a nurturing environment where the satisfaction of caring for children meets the competence of skilled nursing. Here, students are honed in the delicate art of providing compassionate relief from pain and suffering, from infancy to adolescence. Preventive, curative, and rehabilitative cares are the cornerstones of this department's training, preparing students to care for children from fetal life to adulthood.
Clinical exposure in the Neonatal ICU, Pediatric ICU, and General Pediatric wards enriches students' learning experiences. With a qualified, experienced, and dedicated faculty, this department instills essential skills in pediatric assessment, emergency management, and medication administration, all while emphasizing communication and empathy.
Graduates emerge as advocates for young patients, equipped with the knowledge and compassion to navigate the complexities of pediatric care, ensuring optimal health outcomes and quality of life for children under their care.
Vision
To be a model of excellence to improve pediatric population health locally and globally through leadership in pediatric nursing education, research, and practice.
Objectives
- To impart adequate knowledge and skills to undergraduate nursing students on comprehensive nursing care for children in promotive, preventive, curative and restorative domains of health.
- 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 motivate students to research child health and its various factors.
- To analyze the importance of prevention of illness and the remedial measures towards the same.