PAEDIATRIC NURSING
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The department has 266 beds spread across 9 wards, with Intensive care and Emergency services offering general, semi-private, and private in-patient services under the departments of General Paediatric Surgery, Medicine, Oncology, Nephrology, Rheumatology, Adolescent Medicine, Endocrine Respiratory and Infectious disease. Headed by Mrs. Mary Johnson, the
Department has Nine nurse managers, 5 tutors, 10 charge nurses,21 nurses in expanded/specialized roles, and 165 staff nurses.
Specialty Services
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1. Adolescent Health Service
a. Eating Disorder Clinic
b. Child Sexual Abuse Protection and Care Services
2. Dialysis Services :
3. Developmental Paediatric services:
4. Transplant Services
a. Renal Transplantation
b. Liver Transplantation
c. Autologous Stem cell Transplantation
5. Paediatric Emergency services and triaging
6. Well baby clinic services
7. Paediatric Endocrine services
8. Paediatric Intensive care services
9. Paediatric Respiratory Services
10. Pain services
11. Paediatric Infectious Diseases Services
12. Paediatric CART Services
Other services include Paediatric Rheumatoid Arthritis services, Paediatric Orthopedic services, Paediatric Neuro services, Paediatric Seizure clinic services, Child psychiatric services, High-risk services, etc, where nurses play a crucial role.
Special Days:
World Kidney Day is observed on the 2nd Thursday of March every year.
World Autism Week: World Autism day is celebrated on April 2nd.
World Immunisation week: Celebrated from 24th to 30th April
World ORS Week: Observed on 29th July.
World Breast Feeding week: Observed in the month of August 1 st to 7th.
World Adolescent week: World Adolescent week is observed during the second week of November.
Training programs:
1. The Paediatric Advanced Life Support and Basic Life support courses are periodically conducted within the department for our Nurses and all our Nurses are trained in Paediatric Basic Life support and at least 250 nurses are trained in PALS.
2. Clinical Competency Training in Dialysis and transplantation to prepare nurses with
specialized knowledge and skills are conducted by experts.
3. Paediatric Intensive Care IAP modular training and Fellowship program: This may be upgraded with INC accreditation in the future.
List of faculty:
Prof. Dr Mary Anbarasi Johnson- Paediatric Intensive Care
Prof. Ruma Nayak - Paediatric Respiratory Nursing
Prof. Dr Vinitha Ravindren- Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Burns Nursing
Prof. Margaret Manoharan-Developmental Paediatric Nursing & Paediatric High Dependency Care
Prof. Lilly Prasad- Paediatric Emergency Nursing
Prof. Shanthi Gladston- Paediatric Nephrology
Prof. Menaka Raghuraman-Paediatric Oncology
Mrs. Deena Edwin-Paediatric Endocrinology
Mrs Esther Kanthi- Paediatric Surgical Nursing and Adolescent Health Nursing
Contact Details
Name of the HOD: Dr. Mary Anbarasi Johnson
Department Address: Paediatric Nursing Department
College of Nursing
CMC, Vellore
Phone: 0416- 2286147, 0416-2287027