‘Nurses, pillars of healthcare system’

Tirupati: Nurses are the pillars of healthcare system and they can contribute in health system transformation through quality assurance and working with empathy, compassion, observed the Vice-Chancellor and Director of SVIMS Dr TS Ravikumar. 

Taking part in the International Nursing Day celebrations at SVIMS, he asked the nurses to participate actively in the team and contribute to reduce the preventable deaths in the hospital. He remembered the major contributions of Florence Nightingale in transforming health system. 

Many of the things that are practiced in the present health system like root cause Analysis, inductive and deductive reasoning were the contributions of Florence Nightingale, he said. Later, pledge was administered to the nursing staff during the programme. 

On this occasion, nurses felicitated the Director for his contributions in improving their role and in making SVIMS crack the top 100 rankings in nation. In-charge Dean and Registrar Dr V Suresh, In-charge Medical Superintendent Dr Govinda Narayana, Nursing Superintendent C Sunitha,, V Indiramma, J Sharada Devi, Meenakshi and Kantamma have also took part.