Department of Medical Surgical Nursing

Lab Facilities

The college has a well-equipped Nursing Foundation and Medical-surgical nursing lab, which are spacious and well-furnished with advanced mannequins that act as a simulator for practicing basic nursing procedures. A new OSCE lab has been set up with advanced types of equipment like ECG and arrhythmia simulator, defibrillator, and crash Kelly which will help the students to get simulated learning experience in Critical care nursing. The students also get hands-on experience in the Central Skill lab of Nitte University: NU-MEDISIM through simulated clinical experiences and high-fidelity manikins.

Clinical Facilities

The students are given the best clinical exposure at Justice. K.S.Hegde Hospital in all specialty areas. Second-year P.G. students are sent to specialty hospitals like Narayana Hrudayalaya, NIMHANS Bangalore, and B.M. Birla Institute of Cardiology and Research Center Kolkata.

UG Graduate Projects(Ongoing)

• Assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding blood donation among students in selected colleges at Mangalore
• Knowledge of self-care management and quality of life of diabetic patients in a selected tertiary care hospital of Mangalore
• Knowledge level on nutritional management of Diabetes Mellitus among staff nurses of selected tertiary care hospital of Mangalore
• Knowledge of the care of patients on Mechanical ventilation among nursing students

UG Graduate Projects (Projects)-Completed

• “Proportion of Varicose vein profile and practices among staff nurses working at a tertiary care hospital, Mangalore”
• “Knowledge regarding self-administration of insulin among diabetic patients in a selected hospital of Mangalore to develop a self-instructional module”
• Effectiveness of structured teaching program (STP) on ABG analysis and interpretation among third-year BSc (N) students in a selected college of Nursing, Mangalore
• Knowledge of research ethics among novice researchers
• Effectiveness of educational intervention on knowledge regarding first aid management among primary school teachers

Postgraduate Projects(Ongoing)

• Effectiveness of Hip Abductor strengthening exercise on pain and quality of life among Osteoarthritis residents in selected old age homes in Mangalore
• Effectiveness of Abdominal Massage on the Gastric Residual Volume and Gastrointestinal Symptoms among Patients with Nasogastric Tube in Intensive Care Units

Postgraduate Projects(Completed)

• Effect of foot reflexology on anxiety and vital signs among patients undergoing coronary angiography.

Staff Projects(Ongoing)

• Genetic markers of tuberculosis among Indo Tibetans and Indian population
• Effect of dietary counseling to caregivers on the eating behavior and nutritional status of differently-abled children
• Effect of foot reflexology on anxiety and vital signs among patients undergoing coronary angiography
• Effectiveness of abdominal massage on the gastric residual volume and gastrointestinal symptoms among patients with NG tubes in Intensive Care Units

Ph.D Projects (ongoing)

• Effect of Yoga on serum inflammatory biomarkers, psychophysiological and QOL indicators in Breast cancer patients
• Genetic susceptibility and associated factors of tuberculosis among the Tibetan population
• Multimodal Perioperative Management Programme on Postoperative Recovery among clients undergoing abdominal surgery from a selected hospital at Mangaluru

• Mrs. Cleeta Anline Pinto, Associate Professor received an extramural grant of 4,100,00 from ICMR for the project entitled ‘Capability Enhancement Programme on Handling Emergencies, and successfully completed all five sessions with 3 days of training each on 25.1.2024.

• Prof Fatima D. Silva, Principal NUINS received the Best Researcher award of NUINS from NITTE deemed to be University for the year 2023, and also the Best Paper award from NITTE (deemed to be University) on 5th September 2023 for the paper titled ‘Impact of white noise app on sleep quality among critically ill patients. ( Nurs. Crit. Care )-a Q1 journal.

Publications

• Barboza HR, Moosabba M, Silva FD, Lobo AS. Effectiveness of Preoperative Education and Music Intervention on Postoperative Outcomes among Patients Undergoing Abdominal Surgery: A Quasi-experimental Study. JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND DIAGNOSTIC RESEARCH[Internet].2023;Available from: ttps://www.jcdr.net//article_fulltext.asp?issn=0973-709x&year=2023&month=May&volume=17&issue=5&page=LC07-LC12&id=17841
• Barboza HR, Dsilva F, Moosaba M, Lobo AS. Effectiveness of Multimodal Care Interventions on Enhanced Recovery among the Patients Undergoing Abdominal Surgery. Journal of Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences University [Internet]. 2023;18(2):244–8. Available from: https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/jdmimsu.jdmimsu_191_22
• Latha S, Kamath N, Joseph G, Rajesh V. Multimodal perioperative management programme on postoperative discomfort among clients undergoing abdominal surgery at a selected hospital in Mangaluru. Biomedicine (India). 2023;43(1)
• Latha S, Kamath N, Joseph G. Postoperative Discomfort Among Laparotomy Patients from a Selected Hospital at Mangaluru: An Observational Study. Journal of Health and Allied Sciences NU. 2023 Oct;13(04):509–17

Presentations

• Mr. Veeresh K, Lecturer, won the third position in the Scientific paper presentation titled ‘Effectiveness of thirst bundle on reduction of thirst intensity and dryness of mouth among postoperative patients undergone abdominal surgery, SPNCON-2023 with the theme Patient safety and Nurses Resilience in Perioperative practices organized by Nursing college, AIIMS Bhopal and Society of Perioperative Nursing (SPN)India on 23-24th March 2023
• Mrs. Latha. S, Multimodal Perioperative Management Programme on Postoperative discomfort among clients undergoing abdominal surgery from a selected hospital at Mangaluru, SPNCON-2023 with the theme Patient safety and Nurses Resilience in Perioperative practices organized by Nursing college, AIIMS Bhopal and Society of Perioperative Nursing (SPN)India on 23-24th March 2023
• Mrs.Tincy Thomas, Comparative study on the effectiveness of 3%citric acid dressing versus normal saline dressing on diabetic foot ulcer among patients admitted in selected wards of KLES hospital, Belagavi -SPNCON-2023 with the theme Patient safety and Nurses Resilience in Perioperative practices organized by Nursing college, AIIMS Bhopal and Society of Perioperative Nursing (SPN)India on 23-24th March 2023

Poster presentations

• Mrs. Cleeta Anline Pinto, Associate Professor presented a poster at the National Conference on Integrating Technology in Public Health: the Way Forward organized by the Yenepoya Nursing College on 9th February 2024

Resource Person

• Prof Dr. Fatima D Silva, Principal NUINS has been the Resource person for an International workshop on ‘Nursing Theories’ on 12th January 2023 at St Johns College of Nursing, Bangalore
• Mrs. Drago Melba Bazel, Lecturer has been the resource Person for the First Aid awareness programme organized by IRCS, DK district held at Sahayadri College of Engineering on 14th March 2023
• Mrs.Latha.S Associate Professor has been the resource Person for the Simulation-based workshop on Criticare OBGYN organized by Father Muller CON on 9th September 2023
• Prof.Dr. Fatima D. Silva, Principal NUINS, Mrs.Cleeta Pinto, and Mrs. Latha.S participated as trainers in the ICMR-funded workshop on Biomedical Waste Management conducted over 10 days in December 2023 -January 2024
• Prof.Dr. Fatima D. Silva, Principal NUINS, Mrs.Cleeta Pinto, Mrs. Latha.S and Mr.Chethan Naik were the resource persons in the ICMR-funded workshop on ‘Capability Enhancement Programme on Handling Emergencies and completed all five sessions with 3 days of training each on 25.1.2024
• Mrs. Cleeta Anline Pinto, Associate Professor and Mr. Chethan Naik, Lecturer and Mrs.Reeta Priya D Costa have been the resource Persons for the Interdisciplinary skill development and training program for interns organized by the Dental education unit in association with NUINS on 30th March 23-1st April 2023 and 22-24th January 2024
• Mr. Chethan Naik , Lecturer and (Senior Professional First Aid Trainer, IRCS) and Mrs. Reeta Priya D Costa, Asst lecturer have been the resource Persons for the First aid training program for YRC volunteers organized by the YRC unit of Dr.NSAM First Grade College, Nitte on 10th February 2024