Monday, 23 March 2015

Volunteers call for the various commiittees

Introduction
In last fifteen years there was a transformation in nursing education, practice and research which has created mixed responses. We were glad that more number of students with good caliber joined the profession and creation of the thousands of specialists but there were many problems created like regional imbalances in institutions, mushrooming of private players, lack of avenues for these talents and step mother attitude of government policies towards the profession collectively created a distress. All these professionals are not heard either from professional bodies or government hence followed the birth of many associations and unions to raise the voice for their rights.
In the mode of development, various modes and means of communication made easy to communicate and know each other. With these modes and means we could able to track various events occurring in health including nursing profession. Analysis of the health developments and nursing issues revealed the need unite nursing association and unions both private and public sector. With this goal Delhi Nurses Union has initiated to organize a Nurses Day at national level and invite all associations and unions to acknowledge and appreciate each other.
Outcome: at the end of the conference we will
ü  Appreciate and acknowledge activities of various nursing association.
ü  Analyze macro political and economic changes having detrimental impact on health.
ü  Have consensus to form national advocacy team/consortium.
Objective
ü  To understand and acknowledge various association and union struggle to strengthen  public health system
ü  To analyze the socio-economic and political development which has a detrimental impact on health care system
ü  To form a national advocacy committee to represent and involve nurses in district, state and national level policy and planning
ü  To form a centralized information centre to collect information from all the states and disseminate on regular basis (monthly or bimonthly)
ü  To collate the studies conducted on status and challenges of nursing profession.
ü  To form a research team in collaboration with clinical nurses to generate evidences of practice (independent and interdependent)
ü  To propose a clinical and public health cadre for the nurses.
ü  Assess the exploitation of health worker in institutions.
Various committees

Committee
Roles and responsibilities
Members
Registration
Prepare the registration form and disseminate


Enroll the delegates and update regularly on blog


Decide on the registration kit (bag, pen, scribbling pad and book /pendrive??? )


Prepare the delegate registrations




Organizing committee
To look after all the committee status


To work on the programme planning


Decide the speakers and take their abstract and submit to research committee


Check the weekly update of all the committee report in blog


To communicate the mails and messages


Send invitation letter and send to the states/association


Decide on theme of the nurses day 2015


Coordinate with all state coordinators to follow up the state/organization presentation and history










Editing committee
Follow up the state organization and collect the details from them on time


Collect and verify the evidences for their claim of achievements


Edit the drafts and forward to the editor chief


Tender or locate the publisher and get the printing done within specified time




Coordinators
Be a liaison between the various committees updates and communicate to the state


Motivate the state to join hands


Guide the state leaders for their travel and accommodation


Update the state progress in the blog




Research committee
Review the various studies, segregate and collectives under various domain which has impact of nursing care


Select the topics for presentation and call the speakers


Follow up the editing group and give the scientific temper


Communicate the state and other findings to the speakers and inform them to use these as an examples




Catering committee
Decide the menu and call for catering tariffs


Review the quality of food


Supervise their services


Calculate the and project the budget to the central committee




Stage decoration
One of the union take complete responsibility and submit tentative budget




Private nurses mobilization
Promote and form a group in each state to promote the private nurses to support them to form organization


Enlist the private hospital from city, district and other places


Use the snowball technique to enlist the peers from private hospitals




Finance commiitte
Collect the budget from each commiittee


Keep an account of the all expenditure with receipts


Upload the financial details every weekly on blog




Sunday, 15 March 2015

The Hindu, 12.03.2015, Delhi edition page number 4


Press Release

To
Health Correspondent/City editor

PRESS RELEASE

                                                                                                                                      Date: 10.03.2015
Today, on 10 March, nurses of government hospitals in Delhi, leaders of some nursing associations associated with private hospitals as well as representatives from women’s organizations held a meeting at Lady Harding Nurses Hostel. Mrs. Khurana, Secretary General, Delhi Nurses Union, in association with Mr Santosh (a nurse pursuing research from Jawaharlal Nehru University) initiated the meeting on the agenda of uniting the larger nursing community on common concerns/issues, pressurizing the central government to roll back the deduction in 2015 health budget and working towards better public healthcare in the country.
The meeting began with a discussion on why nurses (in the clinical field) should unite against the new recruitment rules for nurses in government hospitals that were being pushed through despite protest from unions like Delhi Nurses Union (DNU). The points of concern regarding the new recruitment rules include reduction in the maximum age limit from 35 years to 30 years. This has been perceived as a huge attack on the nursing community, especially in the context of delayed recruitment in government hospitals, steady contractualization of nursing jobs and the fact that candidates can enrol in nursing courses like B.Sc. Nursing up till the age of 25 and even 27 years in some cases.
As pointed out in the discussion, it was also highly problematic that the new recruitment rules require 6 months to 2.5 year experience in a 50-bedded hospital. Arguing against such a qualification, Maya John from Centre for Struggling Women (CSW) argued that it would press more qualified nurses into the clutches of private hospitals, who by force would have to work in private hospitals to gain the minimum experience to apply to government hospitals.
The nurses, nursing unions and nursing associations present also discussed the need to enhance social responsibility of nurses towards enhancing public healthcare. Mr Santosh emphasized the need to change the strategy of future struggles from “WE NURSES” approach to “WE THE HEALTH WORKERS” approach so as to force the government to recognize and respect the profession. He also drew attention to the need of uniting all nurses under one umbrella organization in true spirit with Nurses Day on 12 May; properly assessing nurses and nursing educators’ condition across the country;forming a National advocacy team to spread awareness of health workers’ struggles and concerns and working towards a Nursing Census 2015.
The meeting concluded with present members agreeing to celebrate Nurses Day under a common banner with representation of leaders from different states and to use the occasion of Nurses Day to pressurize the central government to review its health policy and recruitment rules.
Participants:
Delhi Nurses Union, DPNA, G.B. Pant Nurses Union, IPNA, Lady Hardinge Nurses Union,

Centre for Struggling Women, and others

Meeting organised by Lady Harding Hospital Nurses Association

MINUTES OF MEETING
       
A meeting was held at Lady Harding Nurses Hostel on 10th March 2015 at around 11.30 AM  which was called by Mrs. Khurana, Secretary general, Delhi Nurses Union in association with Mr. Santosh.
1.     Mrs. Khurana  started the meeting by greeting all the Nurse’s representatives present . She briefed the current situation and problem mainly the New RR issue starting from 26th November 2014 to till date.
2.     She stressed the importance of being United and asked the members present regarding forming a Confederation/association which brings all associations/unions/each individual Nurses under one umbrella. She also explained what is the need of the hour and why we need to be united.

3.     Mrs. Khurana then handed over the statge to Mr. Santosh. Briefed about the history of recruitment, Nurses recruited as contractual workers I,e since 1990 to till date by giving example of NRHM and present scenario in Karnataka state. He explained regarding the present status of Nursing schools and colleges in India.
4.     Shared his experience about his visit to European Countries and told how the Brazilian model is regarded as Best module in present day and their approach towards Social responsibility and urged to change our views from
“WE NURSS to WE THE HEALTH WORKERS” so that we can bargain and force the Govt to recognize and respect us. He pressed on “BUILD OUSELVES, SUPPORT OTHERS AND BUILD THE NATION” module.
5.     He put forth some of the important issues such as, a] Reclaiming of TNAI posts once again by clinicians as the TNAI members have shown their total negligence towards clinical Nurses. B] Nurses to be recruited on Administrative posts. C] asked why the Diploma nurses can’t be given graduation as other sector students are being given (B.A, B.Sc etc)

6.     He proposed some of the works, those needs urgent attention A] Uniting all nurses under one umbrella. B] Knowing nurses existences today in India. C] Formation of National advocacy team D] Nursing Census 2015.
7.     Proposed 10.1 Theory where he explained how each one of us if spends 10 minutes per day and 0.1% of our salary towards our profession helps in uplifting the standards as well as helps in achieving the goals.
8.     Ms. Maya from CSW explained the importance of time limits to be adopted in bringing all association (Govt as well as Pvt) under one Umbrella and asked to confirm from 9th to 12th May as 12th May is Nurse’s Day and Parliament is in session so we can be best heard…
9.     Mr. Lalchandani raised some doubts regarding the difference in problems faced by Govt, Pvt and rural nurses and also the problems may arise in the near future.. and he as been answered by Mrs. Khurana, Mr. Santosh and Ms. Maya..
10.                         Mr. Shijo presented his views on behalf of DPNA, and Mr. Arun from IPNA raised the importance of being united.

11.                         Lastly the members are being asked their opinion regarding the observing the Nurse’s Day under the banner of DNU in Delhi by voice vote, then all the members present agreed unanimously for the same..
12.                         Then Mrs. Khurana decided in the meeting that the conference on 9th and 10th of May 2015 will be held under the banner of DNU and invitation will be sent  to all leaders across India to come and present their success, and views and the same will be submitted to the Govt on 12th May.

13.                         Lastly it is decided, another meeting will be held on 17th March for preparations regarding the proposed Nurses Day celebration/ conference on 9th and 10th of May.( venue need to be confirmed)..