A state level continuation of Nursing Education (CNE) workshop on ‘Patient Safety’ concluded in NEIGRIHMS yesterday.
The event was attended by over 800 participants from across the State from various fields of healthcare practice, to advance the dialogue and delve into the best practices in patient safety.
NEIGRIHMS Director Prof. Dr Nalin Mehta said that nurses, representing a noble profession, should employ all possible means to deliver and ensure high quality care with the sole intention of beneficence. “If patient safety is achieved; safety of Doctors and Nurses gets ensured,” he added.
Medical Superintendent Prof. C Daniala who attended the event as special guest, highlighted cutting edge technologies and methods to prevent errors and improve patient safety. He stressed on Radiation Safety and gave a detailed account of precautions to avoid unnecessary exposure to radiation.
In her keynote address, Irene A Nongtraw, Nursing Superintendent expounded on the focus given to the theme “Improving Diagnosis for patient safety” for the year 2024 and underlined the critical importance ethical principles and the attention healthcare professionals pay to their patients’ safety and well-being. She stressed the need for correct and timely diagnosis in the face of the complexity of modern healthcare, to ensure favourable outcomes, and most importantly enhanced patient safety.
Earlier, Chief Nursing Officer Ridaker Khonglah in her welcome address stated that patient safety was about empathy and responsibility, emphasizing on the overall goal of the workshop to make every patient’s experience as safe and positive as can be.
Sessions were conducted by the experts on topics such as Principles of Patient Safety; Effective Communication; Patient Safety practices: Surgical safety, Proper Documentation, Informed Consent; Medication safety; Prevention of Common Errors; Safe Transfusion practices; Infection Prevention & Control; Licensure and Incident Reporting; and Firefighting.
Meanwhile, the College of Nursing at NEIGRIHMS conducted the 12th lamp lighting and oath taking ceremony for the 18th batch of BSc Nursing students here on Wednesday. The theme of the ceremony this year was ‘Be the Light that Lightens the World’.
Prof Namita Singha, Vice-Principal of the College of Nursing, highlighted the significance of the ceremony and the Florence Nightingale oath was administered by Prof Nochovono Tase, Professor-cum-Principal of the college.
