Capping-cum-lamp lighting: Cappingcum-lamp lighting ceremony is a very auspicious ceremony that honors the 1st year students as they begin their clinical training
(an integral part of their course). The traditional nurses cap is a badge of honor and the lamp lighting is symbolic of the lamp that Florence Nightingale, the pioneer of nursing, famously carried while caring for sick soldiers during the Crimean war.
Community posting: Our students undertake community posting at the Community Health Center (CHC) Singngat which was recently upgraded to a Subdistrict Hospital. It is one of the biggest health care facilities next to the District Hospital. The total area of Singngat is 977 sq. km with population density of 23/sq.km. The sub-district hospital is located at Singngat, attracting patients from in and around the area. The posting was carried out with the permission of the CMO, Churachandpur, and kind co-operation of the sub-district hospital staff and Mr. M. Haukholian, Chief of Singngat Village. During their posting/visits, the students assist the staff of the sub-district hospital, Singngat and also conducted community health talk. The students also visit different schools and conducted School Health Programmes along with Nutritional programme for the students.
Clinical practice: The students undergo their clinical practice/ duty at the District Hospital, Churachandpur. In the hospital they practice and perform their skills on different procedures and take care of patients enabling them to provide an optimum health care in general.
Mental health nursing posting: With the rising demand of care for mentally ill patients students are sent for their clinical exposure to Lokopriya Gopinath Bordoloi
Regional Institute of Mental Health (LGBRIHM), Tezpur, Assam as part and parcel for their curriculum completion.
This clinical practice/duty and posting offers students valuable opportunities to understand hospital environment and helped them gain first-hand experience in dealing with patients. Most importantly, it helped them put into practice, what they have learned in a classroom setting. Such clinical practice, duty and postings are an integral part of the GNM program at Tunnu School of Nursing which believed in broad-based education programme that includes achieving an optimal balance between learning at a class room setting and field exposure.
