Practice of nursing profession and education should match the high expectations of patients and their family members, otherwise it will lack ethical values, according to said Prof. Rajeswari Siva, HoD at the Community Nursing, CMC Vellore.
She was inaugurating a state level workshop on ‘Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) in Nursing’ at Sri Ramachandra University in Chennai.
With knowledge of diseases and treatments widespread among patients and their family members, doctors are no more looked upon as gods and nurses as angels, but as competent and caring or otherwise. Also, they use several sophisticated medical gadgets at home and when they see nurses and doctors with traditional equipment and practices they wonder whether they are receiving proper treatment. Therefore each clinical practice has to be well defined and universally applicable in treatment, teaching and in assessment of patients, she added.
Dr. P.V .Vijayaraghavan, Dean Education, Sri Ramachandra University, said OSCE is the most ideal way to evaluate medical and para medical students whether pre determined objectives have been achieved by them. Such an OSCE should be on a large number of stations with patients and by a large number of students producing the same set of results there by establishing their reliability and best clinical practice. Evolving such models for application throughout the country is the most difficult task. Expert clinicians and teachers should bring their life long experience and evolve such models for the benefit of students and patients, he said.
Dr. K.V. Somasundaram, Dean of Faculties, Dr.S. Revathy, Principal, Nursing and Dr.S. Rajeswari, Reader, SRU were among those who participated in the event.
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