Nursing
Nursing is a profession within the health care sector. Its primary focus is enabling patients, families, and communities recover from ailments, maintain optimal health and quality of life. Nursing as a profession is unique by its nature of a high demand on the right kind of balance between the head (intelligence) and the heart (emotions). Every nurse irrespective of their role is facing with this challenge each day.
This practice involves many specialties. Nurses work in collaboration with other healthcare practitioners such as physicians, physical therapists and psychologists. Nursing care promotes self care concepts enabling patients to meet their basic human needs in coping with their health status throughout their life cycle. Nursing involves a broad approach to health care aimed at a healthy society through education of public.
Common Venereal Diseases include :
- To provide to the patient a quality of nursing care that can be measured and evaluated at reasonable cost.
- To create a working environment that encourages professional growth and personal satisfaction for all levels of nursing practice.
- To provide an environment that facilitates nursing education and research and its application to patients under nursing practice.
- To foster a positive, professional image of nursing to the public through community services and professional relations.
Our Efforts
The Himalayan Hospital is an advanced treatment hospital that provides acute care and advanced medical care. It is for this reason that our nursing department believes in the importance of increasing the human power of healing with “nursing that enhances patients’ vitality.” To this end, all of our departments have raised their ethical standards and are committed to practicing “nursing that sees, feels, and thinks” that is based on fundamental knowledge and skills.
The Nursing Department aims to serve patients effectively at all dimensions of medical treatment to either outpatient departments, emergency rooms, in wards, critical wards, operating theatres, delivery rooms and many more specialized units including continuous care in patients after their discharge from the hospital. The mission is managed by the continuous care centre. In addition, it also provides quality development, research and academic services including training programs and seminars for internal personnel. The course will be updated to comply with situations so that the personnel are equipped with the advanced training to continuously improve the quality of nursing services.
Specialty
| Operating Rooms | Procedure Room (radiology and Nuclear Medicine) |
ER and Triage |
| Cath Lab | Paediatric Cardiology | Endoscopy |
| Labor room | Oncology – radiation and chemotherapy areas | Pain & Palliative |
| Dialysis | Bone marrow transplantation unit | Procedures/techniques necessary for care |
| Physical facilities | Number and type of personal needed to perform care effectively | Provisional of equipment and supplies |
Area of work
| Anesthesiology | Critical-care | Cardiology |
| Geriatrics | Obstetric & Gynecological (OB-GYN) | Oncology |
| Pediatrics | Surgery and transplantation |
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Caring healer
The compassionate care offered by Himalayan Hospital nurses incorporates evidence-based best practices, research and feedback from patients. Your nurses assess, evaluate and monitor you, and they carry out many other responsibilities, such as taking your vital signs. They listen to your concerns so that they can provide individualized care.
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Teacher
Himalayan Hospital nurses are health educators for patients, families and communities. They are supported in this work by premier patient education centers at each Himalayan Hospital campus.
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Navigator
Your nurse advocates for you and guides you and your family on your health care journey. Your nurse also coordinates with other members of the care team. Clinical nurses help prepare you for discharge from the hospital and transition to the next level of care.
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Problem Solver
Professional nurses are trained to be proactive problem-solvers in every care setting. That may involve coordinating the care of people with complex medical needs, assessing processes to enhance value and efficiency, anticipating a complication in a patient's condition, and responding to unexpected challenges.
Himalayan Hospital nurses are educated to provide care that considers patients and their families in a holistic manner, including their support systems and their physical, psychological and social needs.
Other contributions of professional nurses at Himalayan Hospital include
- Participating in shared decision-making on the unit and in departmental and organizational committees
- Leading, participating in and disseminating evidence-based nursing practices that yield safe, high-quality patient care
- Partnering with interdisciplinary teams to drive change that improves patient care
- Committing to process simplifications that remove barriers to excellent care
- Implementing and using new technology to meet patient needs
- Conducting research to improve patient care
