Nursing Foundation including Adult Health Nursing & Advanced Nursing laboratory
AIMS
1. To increase awareness among the students in the field of medicine 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 fundamental 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
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. There are some charts prepared by 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.
4. The lab is equipped with all sophisticated equipment and manikins to facilitate transition to actual clinical settings. A large collection of nursing models, manikins, instruments, comfort devices are available for full practical simulation of patient care . Medical surgical lab. provides safe training environment for all nursing students in practical courses. The lab has advanced CPR dummy, procedure dummies and infusion arms for teaching the student required skills Different surgical instruments such as forceps, retractors etc are there to teach general trolley set up in O.T and for trolley setting for specific procedures.
ACTIVITIES
1. The students are doing all basic nursing procedures like bed bath, CPR, IV cannula insertion, IV therapy, Hair care, etc.
2. They are used to study the instruments which are used in hospitals, tray set up, maintaining aseptic technique during the procedure, etc.
3. They are allowed to issue the articles for the procedure. This all activities are done for encouraging the students to be a functional nurse
4. Medical surgical lab aims at making students proficient in assessing and caring for adult patients suffering from various medical surgical disorders. They are also provided with skill necessary to counsel and educate patients and families about the disease process and its treatment and prevention with the help of educational material.