Introduction

The Department of Nursing Foundation believes that a strong basement should be laid for each individual student so as to prepare them to practice quality care with utmost commitment, compassion and competence.

AIMS

The department of Nursing Foundations aims to prepare students to be skilled clinicians, effective members of interdisciplinary teams and leaders in the Nursing field.

Core Values

  • Respect for the dignity and worth of all human beings
  • Caring
  • Integrity
  • Excellence
  • Intellectual rigor

Objectives

General

The Department aims to equip students with knowledge, attitude and skills to work in various practice areas and to develop as professional nurses with firm commitment to lifelong service and learning.

Specific

    • Describe the concept of health, illness and health care agencies.
    • Explain concept and scope of nursing.
    • Describe values, code of ethics and professional conduct for nurses in India.
    • Perform the admission and discharge procedure.
    • Communicate effectively with patient, families and team members and maintain effective human relations.
    • Appreciate the importance of patient teaching in nursing.
    • Explain the concept, uses, format and steps of nursing process.
    • Documents nursing process as per the format.
    • Describe the purposes, types and techniques of recording and reporting.
    • Describe principles and techniques of monitoring and maintaining vital signs.
    • Monitor and maintain vital signs.
    • Describe the purpose and process of health assessment.
    • Perform health assessment of each body system.
    • Identifies the various machinery, equipment, linen and their care.
    • Describe the basic, physiological and psychosocial needs of patient.
    • Describe the principles and techniques for meeting basic, physiological and psychosocial needs of patient.
    • Perform nursing assessment, plan, implement and evaluate the care for meeting basic, physiological and psychosocial needs of patient.
    • Describe principles and techniques for infection control and biomedical waste management in supervised clinical settings.       
    • Explain the principles, routes, effects of administration of medications.
    • Calculate conversions of drugs and dosages within and between systems of measurements.
    • Administer drugs by following routes-oral, intradermal, subcutaneous, intramuscular, intravenous, topical and inhalation
    • Describe the pre and post operative care of patients 
    • Explain the process of wound healing 
    • Explain the principles and techniques of wound care 
    • Perform care of wound.
    • Explain care of patients having alterations in body functioning .
    • Explain care of patients having alterations in body functioning .
    • Explain the basic concepts of conceptual and theoretical models of nursing