Srinagar: The Department of Nursing Administration, Sheri-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences celebrated “International Nurses Day” to commemorate birth anniversary of “Florence Nightingale” pioneer of modern nursing. The progamme held on Friday focused on this year’s theme “Nurses- Our Nurses our Future”.
Director SKIMS & EOSG, Prof. Parvaiz A Koul, while speaking on the occasion congratulated the Nursing Administration and said the role of nurse is critical in any medical setup. He exhorted the Senior Nurses at SKIMS to help and train junior nurses for better and efficient patient care. He asked Nurses to be more contributory and guide patients to use digital platforms available at hospitals to facilitate over all patient care system.
Dean Medical Faculty, SKIMS, Prof. Bashir A Laway hailed role of nurses in patient care. He applauded them for their contribution and said nurses now have to play dual role and participate in teaching besides their routine work.
Medical Superintendent, SKIMS, Dr. Farooq A. Jan in his address lauded the role of Nurses in CoVID -19 which was recently declared by WHO as end of medical emergency. He further said that future demands nurses to be more diversified and should become tech savvy to make efficient use to digital systems now available in hospital settings for more prompt patient care.
Additional Director SKIMS Mr. Gulzar Shabnum acknowledged significant role of nurses in patient management and stressed that their work should be more embedded in sincerity. He said administration at SKIMS is making all concerted efforts to address manpower deficiency and expressed hope that all issues related to human resource will be addressed.
Organizing Secretary of the event Mrs Mehjooba Masoodi & Incharge Nursing Administration Mrs Daljit Kour in their addresses welcomed the guests and highlighted role of Nightingale in modern nursing.
The function was attended by HODs/Heads of Sections, Faculty SKIMS, Nursing Staff and Nursing Faculty, Administrative Heads and students.

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