Manipal: Nursing Day held by the Manipal College of Nursing

By Snehalatha, Udupi
Bellevision Media Network

Manipal, 05 December 2012: The 19th Annual Day of Manipal College of Nursing (MCON) was held on Monday at Hotel Fortune Inn Valley View. Meticulously planned and executed well, the nursing students and staff put up a splendid show. Even the chief guest, Dr Manju Vatsa, Principal AIIMS was all praise for the program which unfolded with clockwork precision. Dr Manju congratulated the students and applauded MCON for its phenomenal growth in the last 23 years.

 

Also present at the function were Dr. K. Ramnarayan, Vice Chancellor, Dr (Col). Dayananda, Medical superintendent and Chief Operating officer  of KH, Manipal and Dr.Anice George, Dean, MCON and Director of Nursing Education Manipal University.
In her speech, Dr Manju expressed concern over the expansion and commercialization of nursing education thereby compromising the standards of nursing education and emphasized on recruitment of good teachers and adequate clinical competence and constant advances to improve quality care in the country.

 

 

She emphasised the importance of compassion and integrity in teachers and sense of responsibility in the students wherever they work, guided by ethics. She advised the students to continue aiming at excellence and to remain updated with the latest trends to deliver quality care while serving mankind.

 

Meritorious students of BSc. Nursing, PBBSc. Nursing, Post Basic  Diploma nursing, Msc. Nursing, MPhil Nursing  and PhD. Nursing were awarded.Dr Anice George presented the annual report which highlighted the objectives, vision and achievements,projects and growth of the college in field of research over the last one year and displayed the plan what it intends to undertake in the immediate future.

 

Tenzin Choekyi a Tibetan student who was awarded the TMA Pai gold medal at the recently held convocation for the first rank also bagged most ofthe awards instituted by MCON.

 

The Vice Chancellor, Dr. K. Ramnarayan said MCON wasa jewel in the crown of Manipal University and as the centre of excellence in fields of nursing and research. He drove home the point that success cannot be achieved through a tap on a screen or a click of a mouse. “Students have become techno savvy whilerelying mainly on online information and following the “instant mantra”. But success cannot be achieved that way as it is an integration of several ingredients, like creativity, innovation, ability to reinvent and tact of thinking globally and acting locally”. He concluded by appealing to the students to imbibe the right value, have a goal, focus on it and never let the past failures eclipse your today’s dreams.

 

Speaking on behalf  of the graduates, the outstanding student of the year, Tenzin Choekyi, recalled how MCON made her and others fall in love with nursing and how it inculcated the right values in them and brought the change from within making her feel that it was the best decision of her life.

The formal function was concluded with an hour-long cultural program which included the songs by the nightingales of MCON, some finest classical and non-classical dances and fashion show by the faculty.