The nursing profession is crucial to the functioning of hospitals as they are directly involved with the patients and their relatives. That is why nurses are considered by the society assisters. As nurse must combine scientific and technical knowledge along with communication, observation, and clinical skills. In addition she must possess personal qualities like sympathy, perseverance and skill of interpersonal relations. What is required is (a) To set-up excellent nursing institution attached to post-graduate medical institution wherein all facilities are available; (b) The Faculty of nursing must be given U.G.C. grades and the position of professors must be created t o improve teaching and skill; (c) The head of the nursing institution should be given the authority and powers so that she, is able to work efficiently and not have to look up towards higher ups for small things; (d) A lot of innovation through projects and Ph.D. guidance is required; (e) Research which is very hollow at present, needs up gradation; (f) Nurses may be trained in clinical work so that they can take up independent position for minor and repetitive ailments; (g) B.Sc. nurses with 5 years experience may be admitted to MBBS against 50% reserved seats; (h) There must be refresher courses to update their knowledge. Nursing profession is passing through a number of challenges that need the attention of policy-makers, planners and decision-makers to make it fit for discharging the authors and difficult function entrusted to their care. The first is a challenge of conditions of service. Secondly the avenues of promotion are limited. Thirdly the number of patients per nurse must be lessened to improve efficiency. Fourthly there should be leadership position at the top level in hospital hierarchy. This book would be of great use of hospitals, nursing colleges, medical college as well as for scholars in medical and health fields. The literature on the subject is limited and we hope that this would inspire many others to attempt further research so that profession gets its place of importance, which it so richly deserves.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR S.L. Goel
Dr. S.L. Goel, Emeritus Fellow UGC at Panjab University, and an eminent social scientist has been teaching Public Administration and Political Science for over thses decades. He has been a member of University Grants Commission, Govt. of India, New Delhi, Distance Education Council and a member of All India Board of Management under All India Council for Technical Education, Ministry of HRD, New Delhi. His field of specialisation is Public Administration and Management. He has been advisor to Himachal Pradesh and Haryana Health Departments under their USAID Programme. He has written a number of books on Management and Public Administration, foreign students for Doctoral research as well as conducted a large number of training programmes for senior administrators. He has been an elected member of the Senate of P.U., Chandigarh form 1984-88. He is widely traveled in India and Abroad. He was Chairman for UGC IXth Plan Allocation for the Universities in Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh and Co-Chairman for Maharashtra. North-East Universities as well as with some Central Universities. He was Convenor UGC Tth Plan Committee for Jama Milia University, New Delhi, Chitarkoot University, Chitarkoot, Rajasthan University, Jaipur and all Colleges of Delhi University. He was a member of Xth Plan Committee at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi in 2003. As a member of UGC, he was associated with a number of Programmes like Academic Staff associated with a number of Programmes like Academic Staff Colleges, Special Assistance Programme, Autonomous Colleges, where he contributed substantially. He has also published more than thirty books on other areas. He has been a Visiting Professor and a consultanat at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. He visited USSR under Indo-cultural Exchange Programme. He has also served as Professor of Public Administration at Haryana Institute of Public Administration, Chandigarh and in the capacity directed a number of Executive Development Rogrammes meant for Senior Civil Servants. He visited D.R. of Korea, Japan, Hongkong to study the system of Education. He was in Hungary, Switzerland, France, Italy and U.K. to study the health care system in these countries during the summer of 1999.
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