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Child Health Nursing
The Department of Child Health Nursing is a specialized branch of nursing education and practice that focuses on promoting, maintaining, and restoring the health of infants, children, adolescents, and their families. The department prepares nursing students to provide comprehensive, evidence-based, family-centered, and compassionate care across preventive, promotive, curative, and rehabilitative settings. It emphasizes child growth and development, neonatal and pediatric nursing, immunization, nutrition, management of childhood illnesses, and health education.
Vision
To be a center of excellence in child health nursing education, research, and clinical practice by producing competent, compassionate, and ethical pediatric nurses committed to improving the health and well-being of children and their families.
Mission
To provide high-quality education in child health nursing through innovative teaching and clinical training.
To develop competent nurses capable of delivering safe, evidence-based, and family-centered pediatric care.
To promote research and lifelong learning in child health nursing.
To foster leadership, ethical values, and professional excellence among students.
To contribute to community health by promoting child survival, growth, development, and disease prevention.
Objectives
To provide comprehensive knowledge of normal growth and development from birth to adolescence.
To develop clinical competence in assessing and managing the health needs of neonates, infants, children, and adolescents.
To train students in providing preventive, promotive, curative, and rehabilitative pediatric care.
To enhance critical thinking, clinical decision-making, and evidence-based nursing practice.
To promote family-centered care and effective communication with children and their caregivers.
To educate students on national child health programs, immunization, nutrition, and disease prevention.
To encourage participation in research and quality improvement initiatives related to child health.
To instill professional ethics, leadership qualities, and teamwork in pediatric nursing practice.
To prepare graduates to respond effectively to pediatric emergencies and critical care situations.
To promote community outreach activities aimed at improving child health and reducing childhood morbidity and mortality.
Our department has unique student evaluation methods like
OSPE
OSCE
Self assessment method, which will create more interest among students in learning and improving their skills.
Faculty Members
| Sl no | Name of the faculty | Designation | Photo |
| 1. | Mr. Prashant Ishwar | Lecturer and HOD |  |