Events

 

Signing of MOU for writing Nursing Textbooks based on Indian scenario during Authors Meet on 22/09/2009.

Center : Dr. (Flt.Lt.) Nandagopalsamy, MS               President, Tamilnadu Nurses and Midwives Council and               Director of Medical and Rural Health Services, Chennai. Right : Mrs. Sornaleela,             Deputy Director (Nursing),             Directorate of Medical and Rural Health Services, Chennai. Left : Mrs. P. Sarojini,           Joint Director (Nursing)           Directorate of Medical Education, Chennai. Standing Right : Dr. G. Josephine R.Little Flower,                             Registrar, Tamilnadu Nurses and Midwives Council. Standing Left : Ms. Renu Kaul,                          Managing Director,                          M/s. Vitmed Publishing.

The Indian Nursing Council has taken giant strides and revised the syllabus for all nursing programmes.  As well, it is observed that there is dearth of Indian textbooks for student’s reference based on new syllabus.  The foreign textbooks do not adequately represent Indian cultural and demographic scenarios.  Hence, it was felt a dire need for Nurse Educators and the council to write the nursing textbooks for students hailing from Indian background.

 

Therefore the council has taken the initiative to provide a forum for the faculty to author the textbooks. This Council intends to promote 47 nursing titles with the help of qualified and rich experienced faculties from Tamilnadu.

In this connection, on 22nd September 2009 an “Authors Meet” was conducted with the faculty members who had given their consent to author the text books.  During the “Authors Meet”, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between Dr. G. Josephine, Registrar of Tamilnadu Nurses and Midwives Council and Ms. Renu Kaul, Managing Director of M/s. Vitmed Publishing to promote nursing textbooks and in turn the  authors signed an MOU with the council on the text book units and chapters to be written by concerned individual faculty authors.

So far 150 Nursing Faculties have signed the MOU with the Council to Author Nursing Textbooks and strengthened the initiative.  The following deliberations were also done to guide the authors.  Subsequently, handouts of all the presentations were given.

Sl No	Topic	Presented  by
1	Authorship Guidelines	Dr. Latha Venkatesan
2	Legal and Ethical issues	Dr. Vathsala Sadan
3	Writing skills	Dr. Premila Lee
4	MOU	Dr. Jeyaseelan Devadason

Followed by the presentations group discussions were held between the convenors and member authors of various nursing text books and the units and chapters to be written by individual authors were selected personally by them. The meeting ended with great sense of commitment and togetherness among the proposed authors.
The  programme was compared by Ms.Jaeny Kemp and Ms. Nicola Sharon Ambrose.