Advance Skill Lab
Advance Skill Lab deals with the advance nursing care of patients with various medical surgical conditions. It forms a larger part of the B. Sc. Nursing curriculum. Subjects such as Pharmacology and Pathology are coupled with the basis of medical and surgical nursing to enrich the scientific knowledge of the students.
AIMS
1. To increase awareness among the students in the field of advance medical and surgical to get a positive understanding between the doctor, nurse and patient in treating patient.
2. For providing practical knowledge as a demonstration in the institutional set up itself without any barrier.
OBJECTIVES
1. The actual part is attained if the students have imaginary set up of a advance Nursing lab.
2. The teacher demonstrates the procedure of an environment in the hospital set up.
3. The new students get direct experience to prepare themselves for hospital events.
4. To explain the basic concept of conceptual and theoretical models of nursing.
FACILITIES
• The lab is well furnished and well ventilated with all the necessary equipment’s like patient beds, mattresses, bed sheets, bedside locker, linens and blankets, napkins and towels, bed cradle, cardiac table, wheel chair, stretcher, critical care unit( with O2 cylinder with flow meter, CPR dummy and Suction apparatus), different sizes procedure trays, and other instruments. And all the equipment’s are as per INC recognize and enough for each nursing courses.
• The lab also contains the manikin of three adult male and female as well as one new born. There is one dummy of hand with visible veins which is using to study the procedure of introducing IV cannula.
• There are some charts prepared by the 1st year B.Sc.Nursing students like types of O2 masks, injection sites, methods of medication administration, procedure of T.P.R B.P, nebulization procedure, first aid kit, etc. The models prepared by the 1st year students are kept in the lab like emergency tray, medication administration tray, ICU set up, and Hospital set up.
ACTIVITIES
• The faculty of the department imparts in depth knowledge to the students by various innovative teaching methods. Methods like seminars, symposiums, group discussions, care studies, care analysis, case presentations and procedure demonstrations are used to enhance the knowledge and skills of the students.