The Indian Nursing Council’s latest transfer to launch a two-year postgraduate (PG) course titled ‘nurse practitioner in geriatric nursing’ has pitted the Kerala department of the Indian Medical Affiliation (IMA) in opposition to the Educated Nurses’ Affiliation of India (TNAI).
Whereas the IMA has vowed to oppose the transfer, calling it “one other type of quackery”, the TNAI claims the programme will allow skilled nurses supply remedy in conditions when the companies of specialist medical doctors aren’t accessible.
By the course, which is anticipated to be launched in nursing and medical schools throughout the nation quickly, these with a BSc diploma in nursing will likely be skilled to prescribe treatment and supply remedy in geriatric care. The graduates are anticipated to get a particular registration from the State Nurse and Midwives Registration Council. The course has been designed in accordance with a World Well being Organisation report in 2022 highlighting an increase in life expectancy throughout the globe.
The IMA Kerala department, nonetheless, lately identified that the course can’t be allowed in fashionable drugs as MBBS is the essential qualification to look at and deal with sufferers as licensed by the Nationwide Medical Fee. IMA State president Joseph Benaven and secretary Ok. Sasidharan mentioned that denying profession alternatives to fashionable drugs graduates and inserting unfit and unqualified people can be “prevented in any respect prices.” They demanded that the federal government take steps to utilize the companies of medical doctors within the area of geriatric drugs. Extra PG programs in household drugs and geriatric drugs needs to be launched in medical schools. The organisation additionally warned of a robust protest and agitation in opposition to faux remedy and any transfer to “create misunderstanding and confusion amongst medical doctors and nurses”.
In the meantime, TNAI State president Renu Susan Thomas and secretary Pramina Mukkolath mentioned that developed international locations such because the U.Ok., U.S., New Zealand, and Canada have already got nurse practitioners because the 70s and it has not affected the job prospects of contemporary drugs practitioners there. The TNAI is of the view that the companies of nurse practitioners will likely be useful in medical school hospitals when the companies of specialist medical doctors aren’t accessible in the course of the night and within the night time. Related is the scenario in group well being centres and taluk hospitals.
Additionally, contemplating the rise within the inhabitants of senior residents in Kerala, nurse practitioners skilled in group drugs will likely be required. They claimed that the sanction to start out nurse practitioner course in seven nursing schools within the State had been stalled by sure sections since 2014. The TNAI functionaries additionally puzzled why the IMA Kerala department was against the transfer as their very own nationwide president is a member of the Indian Nursing Council.
Revealed – November 07, 2024 07:58 pm IST
