Nursing service

I feel overwhelmed and honored to write about our Nursing Services’ dynamic work over the past 156 years.

“As a nurse we have the opportunity to work, to heal the sufferer’s mind, soul, heart, and body, they may forget your name, but they will never forget how you made them feel”.

We remember the tremendous number of people who worked hard and sacrificed their time to develop and strengthen Nursing Services.

The Nursing Service was indicated by Ms. W. Noordyk who started the Nursing Service in 1921 along with Dr. Galen F. Scudder.

In 1939 Ms. L.M. Marsilje came as an Ambassador of God to Preach and Practice the slogan of oneness in God through her selfless mission services. Ms. Noordyk and Ms. Mathew succeeded as the Nursing Superintendents of the Hospital in 1955. Nursing services and nursing education were looked after by the eminent nursing leader Ms. A. Mathews till 1955. Ms. L.M. Marsilje became the Dean of the School of Nursing and Ms. A. Mathews continued as Nursing Superintendent after 1955 till 1974. Her untiring service to the nursing services kept the standards of nursing service at the highest level. From then the Indian Nursing Administrators took charge of nursing service and rendered their remarkable service. At this moment I would like to thank Mrs. Kamala Mohanraj, Sis G.T. Mary, Mrs. Nalini Sundernath, Mrs. Asha Noble, & Mrs. Rose Kalpana Baskar for bringing this Nursing service into a great conspicuous place.

The nursing team comprises One Nursing Superintendent, Two Deputy Nursing Superintendents, 10 Nurse Managers, 128 Clinical Nurses, and 13 Auxiliary Nurse Midwives. The Nursing services take care of the House Keeping Department, Control Room, and Laundry Department. In addition, we are providing Special Home Care Services for the community people who are chronically ill, and recovering from surgery.  We are extending our services through community health for the needy people and conducting General camps including General Medicine, Eye, Dental, and specialty camps like cardiology, Dermatology, Pulmonary Medicine, Dental, and Ophthalmology in Rural and Urban areas.

Our nurse managers are teaching a few subjects like Fundamentals of Nursing and Infection Control for Dialysis, Anesthesia, Orthopedics, and Ophthalmology, for the students of Allied Health Science.

We received an award from the Nalam Deepalya Trust, Vellore District, for our good enough quality of service to the community.

In nursing services, on 3^rd July 2022, Mrs. Jayakodi, Nurse Manager & and Mrs. Indra, Nurse Manager received the Florence Nightingale Award for their testament to their dedication and hard work during the period of COVID-19.

The Nursing Service continuously gets part in updating their knowledge and improving their skills by attending National Level & State Level seminars. Our Nurses presented the posters at the National Level Conferences.

Our staff nurses participated in the International level conference through the Zoom platform. We are invited to National-level and State-level conferences as Resource persons.

I had an opportunity to attend a National Level CMAI Conference in New Delhi on the 10^th, and 11^th of November 2022.

We extended our service as per the needs of the community. God blessed us to dedicate another 2 New Modular Operation Theaters, it’s been really skilled enough to assist with all the General Surgery, ENT, OMFS, and Urology.

We praise our almighty for his abundant blessing to open a Cardiac Cath Lab On 6^th June 2020, where we are doing Angiogram, Angioplasty, Primary Angioplasty, TPI [Temporary Pacemaker Implantation], POBA [Percutaneous Old Balloon Angioplasty].

In Accident & Emergency Department we have extended 4 beds specific to trauma care in 2020. From October 2019, SMH took over the Dialysis Unit from the outsources and run the unit with 14 beds.

With the grace of God, we are happy to inform you that we have opened a New Obstetric and Gynecological Block with a total number of 48 beds:

Operation Theater	01
Antenatal Ward	03
Labor Room	06
Postnatal Ward Cradle	08 08
Post–Operative Beds Cradle Gynae Beds	07 07 03
Nursery	05

Presently, Scudder Memorial Hospital has upgraded the bed strength to 300 beds in the 14 wards, such as Medical and surgical wards for Men and women, Gynecology, Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Orthopaedics, ICU, A&E and private wards, and Out Patient departments like Medical, Surgical, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Orthopaedics, Dental, Opthal, Dermatology, ENT, Urology, Psychiatry, Cardiology, Echo, EEG,  Pulmonary, Pediatrics, OMFS, Diabetics Clinic, DOTS Center and Community Health Department. In the future, we have planned to extend the ICU to 10 more beds.

I have to acknowledge our present Medical Superintendent Dr. C. Anbu Suresh Rao for his Zestfulness and Support for maintaining the standards of the Nursing Services Department.

I am grateful for your cooperation and compassion with which the staff of the Nursing Department work and exhibit the feeling of oneness through their services to glorify the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

IP & OP Statistics from the year 2017 to 2022:

Year	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
IP Statistics	6161	7012	5814	6223	7703
OP Statistics	58423	69727	69134	75676	105808

“Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.”