Report of Regional Workshop - 2017
The second year MSc nursing students and faculty of child health nursing department of Manipal College of Nursing Manipal organized a regional workshop on “Management of pediatric surgical conditions” on 25 October 2017 in association with Department of paediatric surgery of KMC Manipal. Total 61 participants attended the workshop.
October 28, 2017
Third session was taken by Dr. Vijay Kumar, Professor, Dept. of Pediatric surgery, KMC on evidence based practice in anorectal malformation. Fourth session was by Dr Vikram Palimar, Professor, Dept. of Forensic Medicine KMC, Manipal on medicolegal aspects in pediatric practice. He discussed the pediatric medicolegal cases (MLC), procedure of registering a MLC and duties of nurse in documentation of MLC. Post lunch session was taken by Mrs Shiny Mathew, Associate Professor, St. John’s College of Nursing, Bangalore on evidence based practice in care of a surgical child. A session on stoma care was dealt by Dr Mamatha S Pai mainly focusing on the nursing management. The team from Coloplast company discussed the different types of stoma bags and application of skin barriers (creams and powders) during stoma care.
The regional workshop ended with thank you note from MSc students Jane Jyothi Mathias. Overall feedback from the participants was very good. The participants expressed that the sessions were beneficial.
