Labs

Aim

Develop skills for essential child and Neonatal care management 

Objectives

• Develop skill for assessing anthropometric measurement of an infant and child
• Practice to perform vital signs 
• Able to handle the technique of various instruments
• Learn to perform skills of neonatal resuscitation
• Able to perform and practice various clinical procedures
• Practice administration of pediatric medication via different routes
• Appreciate the need of therapeutic play in different conditions
• Learn recording and reporting
• Prepare A.V. Aids related to health education to children and parent

Highlights

The lab is equipped with supplies and equipment, as well as practice manikins including neonate (neonatal resuscitation) and Pediatric manikins, Physical examination manikins, The lab provides students with a realistic, simulated clinical environment to practice and demonstrate competency of selected nursing skills. The procedure includes measuring weight, height as well as head and chest circumferences, monitor and interpret vital signs, perform neonatal resuscitation, conduct neonatal assessment, watch video on neonate reflexes and demonstrate it, provide immediate and daily care for child, assist in administration of medications via different routes, follow the universal infection control precautions, encourage mothers to breast feed whenever possible, maintain optimal nutrition for children either enteral or parenteral, assess and manage pain, record, report and documents findings, nursing care & abnormalities, provide health education concerning child care & follow up and apply the nursing process in caring for normal child.

Aim

To understand the concept of nursing practice and apply the holistic approach in meeting the health needs of individual in a scientific manner in community

Objectives

• Understand the basic clinical knowledge about the community health nursing.
• Provide hands-on learning experiences specific to course objectives.
• To provide knowledge to identify community resources.
• Develop skill and practice in performing procedures following scientific principles in home setting.
• Promote the need for interpersonal relationship and effective communication in the community.
• Develop skill in preparation of simple AV Aids for Heath Education in family and in community.
• Practice the principles of bio medical waste management.
• Developing students’ attitude in preventing and promoting health.

Highlights

The laboratory is well equipped with all requirements of teaching students to provide health services to both Urban and Rural community. Rural community development encompasses a range of approaches and activities that aim to improve the welfare and livelihoods of people living in rural areas. The activities taking place within a local community to include residential, site preparation and construction, government, commercial, institutional, and industrial activities. Activities under community health nursing home visit, various health surveys., health education to individual, family and community, health promotion activities on various health and social issue, various procedures along with proper community health nursing bag and collaborative activities along with NGO, Government, local bodies and health care team.

Aim

To develop skill in providing care to the pregnant mothers during antenatal, intranatal and postnatal period in hospital and community setting

Objectives

• Develop competency in arranging labour unit to conduct normal labour
• Practice mechanism of normal labour
• Demonstrate in-utero position and lie of the fetus
• Practice conduct of normal labour
• Practice newborn on assessment in order to rule out abnormal deviation
• Demonstrate immediate postpartum assessment and management
• Demonstrate immediate newborn management
• Demonstrate care of antenatal/postnatal hygiene
• Develop skill in assisting and performing episiotomy suturing
• Develop skill in IUD insertion technique

Highlights

The infrastructure of the lab includes delivery cot, adult cots, different articles and instruments used in Obstetrics and Gynaecological Nursing, birthing simulators, obstetric manikins, pelvis, fetal skull, different kinds of models etc. These all help the students to acquire knowledge & skills in patient care that are to be practiced in clinical settings. Lab provides a conducive environment for advanced learning of maternal nursing related procedures.

Aim

Able to understand the concepts of nursing practice and apply the holistic approach in meeting the health needs of individual in a scientific manner and to provide hands on experience.

Objectives

• Get oriented and familiar with articles, equipment’s used for advanced procedure
• Provide hands on experience with basic and advanced nursing skills necessary for adult nursing care
• Apply scientific principles for the nursing procedures
• Demonstrates body mechanics while caring for the patients
• Demonstrates the principles techniques infection control and biomedical waste management
• Demonstrate basic preparation for preoperative patients
• Demonstrate care to dying and the death
• Administer drug in different routes and assist in various drug administration procedures
• Demonstrates technical skills of applying different types of bandaging procedure
• Develop skills in preparation of bandages and splints
• Practice therapeutic communication while performing procedures on the patients
• Practice stimulation exercise for procedures such as admission and discharge procedure, feeding helpless patients etc

Highlights

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 .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 adult male and female. There is one dummy of hand with visible veins which is using to study the procedure of introducing Cannula. There are some charts prepared like types of O2 masks, injection sites, methods of medication administration, procedure of T.P.R B.P, nebulization procedure, first aid kit, biomedical waste management etc.

Aim

To develop knowledge and skill regarding nutrition and dietary management of the patient

Objectives

• To apply the principle of nutrition in selection, preparation and distribution of food stuff for various age groups in meal planning. 
• To be able to apply the knowledge of RDA for different groups from infancy to old age
• To develop practice to calculate value of food- stuff for planning diet to individual & adults
• To select food stuff as per availability & considering cost with high nutritive value to prepare nutritious food. 
• Learn to practice the combination of variety of nutritious food stuff to increase nutritive value
• To apply knowledge of nutritive values in preparation of diet to prevent nutritional deficiencies among vulnerable groups
• To apply knowledge of "cooking method' to prevent nutrient loss, improves taste & save time & energy in preparation of menus. 
• To be able to practice culinary guide
• To discuss psychosocial & cultural aspect in relation to purchasing food stuff cooking practices & consumption of food that affect health of the individual
• To plan menu for the families of different income group based on budget for food at low cost yet provide high nutritive value

Highlights

Planning and execution of various dietetic lab activities like DASH diet, diabetic diet, lactose intolerance diet, antenatal diet etc. according to need and specialization. Best utilisation of nutrition lab to promote knowledge of menu planning and culinary skills. Examples of normal diet which might benefit health promotion are gluten-free diet, clear liquid diets, full liquid diets, no concentrated sweet diet, diabetic (calorie controlled) diet, renal diet, low fat diet, high fibre diet, no added salts diet etc.

Aim

To acquire knowledge of normal structure and physiology of various human body systems and understand the anatomical structure.

Objectives

• The curriculum should be designed such that there are options to activity based learning through audio-visual aids
• Develop a visual knowledge of body structure at the cellular, tissue, organ & system levels
• Understand the gross & microscopic approach to anatomy & Physiology
• Provide the students with all necessary lab tools such as anatomical models, histology slides as well as experimental & physiological problems that promote the critical understanding of the human body
• Familiarize the students with a variety of lab assignments; help visualize most of the anatomical models of all the body system
• Use of audio visual aids improves student’s critical and analytical thinking. I to help to remove abstract concepts through visual presentation
• To provide training experiences for undergraduate and graduate students with an interest in the impact of biological factors on phenomena for which nurses intervene
• To strengthen teachers skills in making teaching learning process more effective
• To attract and retain learners attention & to use all the relevant information available from different sources
• To generate interest across different levels of students.
• To focus on students-centered approach & Make class more interactive and interesting
• To enhance teachers skills which help to make teaching-learning process effective and conceptual
• Make use of A.V Aids for active learning participation in classroom & thereby make students a keen observer.
• To assist in making lesson plan and build interest and A.V Aids provide effective teaching process by creating interest in different groups.

Highlights

The preclinical lab consist of all the equipment such as adult human articulated skeleton, adult skull, pelvis, heart with large blood vessels, eye with different section, ear with different section, full set of disarticulated adult human skeleton etc. and different charts of all the systems. The lab is well furnished in such a way that the students are able to acquire knowledge through their different demonstration.