College of Nursing

A 3 day workshop was conducted from the 10th – 12th of May 2011. Mrs. Phalakshi Manjrekar, the Director Nursing of the hospital, inaugurated the session and introduced the theme. A Panel discussion on 'Best Practices in the ICU' conducted by Ms. Liza Michael, Nursing Executive and her Team with presentation on 'The Quality Assurance in ICU'. Current advances in OR were also elaborated. Mr. Pramod Lele, the CEO of the Hospital gave his best wishes for the occasion and acknowledged the nurses to be the backbone of the hospital and play a crucial role in the hospital acquiring the 1st place in Mumbai for the 4th consecutive year this time.

• Mrs. Phalakshi Manjrekar elaborated on the theme of Nurses Day. Later an open Discussion session on "Current nursing practices" for implementation was conducted. Ms. Manjrekar – Director Nursing and Ms. S. Balachandran chaired the panel.
• Ms. Sumita Bajaj, from Jersey City Medical Center, Jersey City, NJ, U.S.A. spoke on "Peri-operative Protocols in Cardiac Surgery, A Nursing Perspective in Critical Care".
• Mrs. Shreedevi Balachandran MSN, RGN (UK, Australia) RN RM (MNC) from S.Q. University Oman spoke on "Developing Leadership – What does it take".
• Valedictory on 12th May had Madam Vinoo Hinduja- Trustee & Board member Hinduja hospital spoke a few words encouraging the nurses to keep up the good work. Mr. Promod Lele- CEO Hinduja Hospital addressed all and reemphasized the important role the nurses play in the success of the hospital.
• The Three day workshop included numerous competitions lectures and panel discussions to brain storm views and appreciates nursing efforts and talents.

• Mrs. Phalakshi Manjrekar, Director Nursing- introduced the group to the workshop theme and explained about the Importance of Quality and Safe Nursing.
• Dr. F. D. Dastur, Director Medical Education and Hospital Quality, shared his inputs with the nurses on the theme related.
• Best Panel Discussion and Paper Presentation was presented during the workshop.
• Various sessions were taken by the Management professionals of nursing related to the theme like; Role of nursing leaders for ensuring Quality and safe Nursing Practice, Problem solving and decision making for Quality Nursing, Patient Safety plans and future strategies in our hospital, Caring for medical Records, importance of standardization in Nursing Practices, Patient's rights, Quality and Safe Medication Administration, Nurse's role in ensuring Quality care etc.

The workshop was attended by staff nurses, senior nursing personnel, nursing management professionals.

Transformational leader aims at inducing positive changes in individual through articulating vision of the future that can be shared with peers, subordinates and pay high attention to individual difference among people. The Transformational leadership approach uplifts the morals of their followers with the end goal of developing the follower into leader.

With the goal of generating the idea and importance of adopting the Transformational leadership style nursing division of Hinduja hospital and MRC conducted the workshop on "Transformational Leadership" for the existing leaders and management professional of nursing division.

The focus points of the workshop were:

• Leader's success depends on the follower's success
• Transformational leader; Qualities
• Importance of the planning and leader into a team
• Importance of appreciation for a leader
• How to implement the style

By many group activities, inspirational movie clips, group discussion and debates.

The Certificate of Participation was handed over By Mr. Pramod Lele CEO - Hinduja Hospital to all participants, He appreciated the Nursing division team for the efforts taken.

The Nursing Division believes that, the Nursing services is dependent on nursing education and thus prepare nurses who deliver quality health care for all. The Nursing Staff Development Department offers courses as Continuing Education Programmes for nurses, namely Critical Care Nursing (CCN), Comprehensive Operating Room Nursing and Management (CORN) and Comprehensive Renal Transplant Nursing (CRTN). A valedictory was organized to recognize all efforts that contributed to its success.

Highlights: The honorable trustee Madam Usha Raheja, and the CEO, Mr. Pramod Lele, graced the occasion with their presence. Mrs. Phalakshi Manjrekar - Director of Nursing gave a review of the continuing education and in-service education programmes offered to nurses by the Nursing Division and appreciated the efforts taken by everyone for the success of the Continuing Education Programme. Report on, CCN, CORN, and CRTN was presented by Executive -Nursing Staff Development.

• Mrs. Usha Raheja in her address to the nurses congratulated them for their excellent performance and encouraged nurses to keep up the good work in future. Mr. Pramod Lele congratulated all the nurses who had undergone the Continuing Education programmes. He appreciated the Teaching faculty, including all the Consultants and Nurse educators of the Programmes for the immense effort they had undertaken. His message towards the nurses was to utilize new knowledge gained for providing quality care to the clients of the hospital.
• Representatives of CEP - staff nurses gave a response and shared their memories of the course.
• All the nurses who had undergone the Continuing Education Programmes were awarded with certificates by Madam Usha Raheja, Mr. Pramod Lele and Mrs. Phalakshi Manjrekar.

The one day nursing research workshop was conducted on 7th of November 2011 The Workshop was attended by Nurse Managers, executives, management trainees, supervisors; head Nurses and bedside nursing staff from OT, ICU, and medical surgical units of Hinduja hospital.

Mrs. Phalakshi Manjrekar, Director Nursing- Hinduja Hospital, gave the introductory session of the workshop.

The chief facilitator of the workshop were two international delegates Dr. Basanti Majumdar - Professor of Nursing Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Ontario Canada.

Ms. Agnes M. Therady - Associate chief nurse, Jesse brown, VA Medical Centre, Chicago.

The key areas of discussions were:

The Importance of Research for Nursing, The role of nursing research in Evidence based nursing, The Use of Correct Research methodology, Qualitative and Quantitative Study, Sampling, Use of Simulation in Nursing Research, Importance of Validity and Reliability in Tools, Evaluation criteria by Dr. Basanti Majumdar.

Benefits of TCAB (Transformational Care at Bedside) including its Purposes, Themes, Measures/ Indicators, Innovations, Dimensions of Transformational Leadership by:

Ms. Agnes Mathew

The workshop was made interactive with the group activity wherein the groups were given the task to present a research proposal; Certificate of participation was awarded to all the candidates.

It is realized over the years that there is an increase in the number of renal transplant patients in our hospital. Hence we require advanced knowledge on the part of the nursing team to cater to the needs of these patients. Considering this as the need of the hour and to cater the training needs of our staff nurses working in the transplant unit, the Nursing Staff Development Department had successfully conducted Comprehensive Renal Transplant Nursing education Programme.

The programme was conducted for 2 weeks inclusive 20 hours of theory and 28 hours of practical. The main objective of the programme was to efficiently prepare nurses to provide comprehensive nursing care to the patients under going renal transplant.

The major topics taught in the programme were:

• Transplant in Hinduja hospital a brief history.
• Preparation of client, significant others and nurses for transplant (Pre, Intra and Post operatively).
• Clients and family education regarding transplant care.
• Legal and ethical issues in transplant procedure.
• Cadaver transplant.
• Nursing care of transplant client.

Medical and Nursing Facilitators were:

• Dr. A.Almeida
• Dr. J.Kothari
• Dr. R.Sirsat
• Mrs. S.Desai
• Dr. A.Langote
• Ms.P. Kasle
• Ms. S.Moolan
• Ms. S.Kamble