Manipal: Manipal College of Nursing and Manipal School of nursing, Manipal jointly conducted week long activities to celebrate the International Nurses Day (IND) to remember the birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale and mark the significant contribution of nurses towards healthcare. This year the theme chosen for International Nurses day is; “Nurses: A force for change: Improving health systems’ resilience”.

Capt. Ajitha P S, Chief Nursing Officer at Premium healthcare, Calicut was the chief guest for the programme on Thursday. In her message to the audience she said that young nurses had greater resilience because of the adverse situations they were exposed to from a very early age. She also said that the government’s inability to address the problem of inadequate nurses in the country would lead to dissatisfaction among consumers of healthcare, which will ultimately affect the quality of care. She concluded by saying, “Every nurse need to introspect and realize how they ought to be. The present healthcare workforce demands nurses to be more logical, resilient and they should also be able to rise above unhelpful situations to take the profession forward”.

Dr. Anice George, Dean Manipal College of Nursing, in her address said that values of commitment, loyalty, integrity, humane touch and teamwork are essential for every nurse in the profession and that only if nurses are loyal towards their organization the performance of the organization will be of high standard.

Students and faculty of the college participated actively in events such as quiz held on May 6, mime competition held on May 9, extempore on 10th May 10 and the seminar today. The various themes for the seminar were in line with the theme of International Council of Nurses. The distinguished speakers were Dr. Judith Angelitta Noronha, Associate Dean, Manipal college of Nursing who spoke on “Improving organization resilience by quality nursing education”. Talk on “Quality impact-role of a nurse administrator” was given by Dr. Kasturi R Adiga, Principal School of Nursing Manipal and Dr. Christopher Sudhakar, Dean, Manipal School of Nursing Mangalore addressed, “Accreditation: force for change in 21st century”.