During such crises nurses take up leadership roles at the forefront like this time in the fight against Covid19. They not only add to the development of policies to fight epidemics or pandemics but they also prepare for, identify, respond to, and direct recovery efforts from global epidemics that require an informed, coordinated response says Col Binu Sharma, VP Nursing Services Columbia Asia Hospitals
Last week there was a lot of activity in my neighborhood, as my neighbor's daughter was leaving for the UK. A qualified nurse, she had been working for one of…
Florence Nightingale was a key figure in the transformation of the Nursing profession. Before her hospitals were essentially run by religious institutions where people were cared for in their last days, essentially palliative in nature. During the heights of the Crimean war, Florence Nightingale with a lamp in hand started the beginning of what we call modern nursing care and established nurses as the corner stone of modern healthcare.
Today nursing in India is at another cross roads. While digital and technology have empowered patients to seek the best in care, nurses in India struggle daily against rising stress levels, lower pay and unending demands of the modern healthcare system. Attrition among nursing staff is around 40- 60%. And each day nurses migrate from India to countries like Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland and Middle East.