From the Editor
Our cover story this week is International Nurses Day. The theme of the day is: Nurses: A Force for Change - Improving Health System Resilience. Nursing, according to Oxford dictionary, is the job or skill of caring for people who are sick or injured. Nurses, to-day, has firmly been established as an important and integral part of health delivery. It may be said that nursing has by now become a noble profession all over the world.
Apart from being a noble profession, nursing is a specialists job. On the one-hand, it involves commitment, compassion and care of the highest level; on the other hand it demands specialized skill sets, quality training and constant up gradation of knowledge. The care and comfort a nurse provides is like the ways of nature a unique blend of selflessness and absolute feeling. A nurse lends her healing touch at a time when we are at our worst-helpless and very resentful about it. It takes the highest sense of commitment to be able to serve in such a condition.
Call them angels in white and in comfortable shoes, or one of the few blessings while ill, nurses are well--nurses, one of a kind, a few in a billion. However, in the back drop of the above, when the questions of competency of the nurses in medical profession arise, we can say that as a third world nation, whatever problems we have in the competency level in other profession, we have the same problems in our nurses.
What needs to be done to raise their competency levels are; adequate education, training and practice. It is high time for caring for them who care for us in our sickness and debility.
