Overview

Child Health Nursing Department

The department was established in the year 1995 concerned with student-centered teaching includes innovative teaching-learning methods like WEB Forum, Self-learning module, Computational Learning, CBL, and Inter-Professional learning to provoke knowledge, critical thinking, communication skill, and team collaboration to provide quality of care by the students. The Department is specifically designed for developing as well as understanding the modern approach towards child health care. The vision of the department is to develop students with full pledged knowledge, skill, and attitude to provide high technology nursing care to neonates, children, and adolescents. The students also have the dispensation of becoming familiar with the most sophisticated equipment with a variety of mannequin-like CPR, insertion of IV cannula, colostomy care, Exchange transfusion, umbilical cord catheterization allied to child care. So that students are getting opportunities to perform pediatric procedures in the simulation corner and also Self-learning Desk to transfer the knowledge independently in the clinical set up at the global level. The department motivates the students to do Individual projects and interdisciplinary research. Our Faculties are experts as resource persons at national and international conferences and workshops and also interested in presenting papers at various institutions. E-learning acts as a ready reckoner for the Nursing students in the profession. Faculty members were trained as a provider for AHA accredited PALS course.

Faculty

Head of the Department

Professor.Mrs.T.Mary Minolin Selvam, M.Sc(N)

Faculty

Facilities

In Child Health Nursing lab equipped with variety of mannequin like CPR , insertion of IV cannula, colostomy care, Exchange transfusion, umbilical cord catheterization,So that students are getting opportunities to perform pediatric procedures in simulation corner to transfer the knowledge independently in the clinical setup and  also self-learning Desk which helps to improve students’ knowledge attitude, skill and prepare them at global level.

The mannequin is helpful for the students to practice the procedure like insertion of IV cannula, colostomy care, Exchange transfusion, umbilical cord catheterization in the lab, so that it makes the students to practice independently in the clinical setup Students are getting opportunities to perform paediatric procedures in simulation corner, self-learning Desk in the lab which helps to improve students’ knowledge attitude, skill and prepare them at global level. Following Simulation models are present in the lab.

• Intravenous arm

• Advance Baby Mannequin

Research

The department of Child Health Nursing motivates the students to do Individual projects and inter disciplinary research. The total project conducted in the department is 104 in that 104 projects were published in national and international journal (Scopus indexed-5). The department Executes research activity in animal model to identify the effectiveness of natural effects on reducing drug inducing hyperlipidemia, The Post graduate student has done the study on effectiveness of liquid paraffin on diaper rash among new born babies which was implemented in Saveetha Medical College and Hospital and our rural, urban areas. It is significant achievement from the Department.

Research Areas

• Adolescent Health

• Learning disability

• New Born care

  Our Faculties are experts as resource person at national and international conferences and workshops and also interested in presenting papers at various institutions.