PROFESSIONAL

ORGANIZATION
Definition:

Organization: organization is the arrangement of

personnel for facilitating the accomplishment of some
agreed purposes through the allocation of function and
responsibilities.
Professional association:
Reflects the natural tendency of people
to join together for a common purpose, the
development of commerce and industry and the
political and social realities of achieving public
recognition and prestige.
Objectives of regulatory bodies and professional
nursing association:

To ensure the publics right to quality healthcare

services.
To support and assist professional members.
Health professional such as nurse, doctor,
pharmacist are regulated and licenced by regulatory
bodies as required by territorial legislation. All nurse
are required to be licenced to practice with their
designate territorial nursing regulatory body.
Role/Purpose of regulatory bodies and professional
nursing associations:

To set and enforce standards for nursing education;

To monitor and enforce standards for nursing
education;
To monitor and enforce standards for nursing
practice;
To set the requirement for registration of nursing
professionals.
Principles of Regulation:
Efficiency and economy:
there is a need to use resources in the most efficient and
economic way. The non executive committee of board is
required, among other things, to oversee allocation of
resources and to report to the treasury every year. The treasury
is able to commission value for money reviews of operations.
Role of management:
the bodys senior management is responsible for its
activities and for ensuring that its business complies with
regulatory requirement. This principle is designed to secure an
adequate but proportionate level of regulatory intervention by
holding senior management responsible for risk management
and control within the body.
Proportionality:
the restrictions imposed must be proportionate to the
benefits that are expected to result from those restriction.
Innovation:
this involves for ex. Allowing scope, where appropriate, for
different means of compliance so as not to unduly restrict
participants from launching new ideas and services.
International character:
This involves cooperating with overseas regulators, both to
agree international standards and to monitor global activities
effectively.
Competition:
Competition and innovation consideration play a key role
in its work.
Nursing Professional association and
Regulatory bodies:
1. International council of nursing:
International council of nurses is a federation of
nonpolitical and self governing national nurses
associations which seeks to attain high standards of
nursing services and nursing education, to develop
nursing as a profession. International council of
nursing founded in 1899.
Purposes and Scope:
ICN is a federation of nurses association around
the world which have bonded together to better
develop nursings contribution to the promotion of
health and care of the sick. ICN accepts into
membership of one association of nurses per country.
Goals and objectives:
ICNs Objectives
- To promote the development of strong national
nurses association.
- To assist national nurses association to improve the
standards of nursing.
-To assist national nurses association to improve the
status of nurses within their countries.

3 Main Goals:
- To bring nursing together worldwide.
- To advance nurses and nursing worldwide.
- To influence health policy.
Organization Set Up:
Membership:
Membership is limited to one nursing organization per nation. In
2001, the ICN permitted its members to collaborative structures to be
more inclusive of other domestic nursing groups.
ICN is actively working for:
1. Professional nursing practice:
-HIV/TB and Malaria
-Womens health
-Safe water
-Advanced nursing practice
2. Nursing regulation:
- Code of ethics, standards
- Continuing education
3. Socioeconomic welfare for nurses:
- Occupational health and safety.
- Carrier development
 Function:
- To provide policy directions to fulfill the objectives
of ICN.
- To act upon recommendation of the board of
direction relating to admission and readmission of
member association into ICN.
- To receive and consider information from the board
regarding ICN activities.
- To act through mail or any written communication
on ICN business that requires immediate attention.
- To act upon proposed amendments to ICN
constitution.
2.Indian Nursing Council:
The Indian nursing council is an autonomous statutory
body under the government of india, Ministry of health and
family welfare was constituted by the central government
under section 3(1) of the Indian nursing council act,1947. The
council was constituted in 1949.
Aims and objectives of INC:
To regulate training policies and programmes in nursing.
To bring about standards of nursing training courses.
To regulate these standards in all training institution
uniformly throughout the country universities imparting
certificate course in nursing.
To recognize degree/diploma/certificate awarded by foreign
universities/institution on reciprocal basis.
 To promote research in nursing.
To maintain Indian nursing register for
registration of nursing personnel and training
programmes.
Main purposes of INC:
To set standards and regulate all type of
nursing education.
To prescribe and specify minimum
requirement for qualifying for a particular
course in nursing.
Organizational structure of Indian nursing council:
Committes:

Executive committee: to deliberate on the issues

related to maintenance of standards of nursing
programs.
The nursing education committee to deliberate on
the issues concerned mainly with nursing education
and policy matters concerning the nursing education.
Finance committee: this is another important
committee of the council which decides upon the
matters pertaining to finance of the council in terms of
budget, expenditure.
Function of INC:
To established and monitor a uniform standard of
nursing education for nurses.
To prescribe standard of education and training in
nursing programs and prescribe the syllabus and
regulation for nursing programs.
To advise the state nursing council, examining
boards in various important items regarding nursing
education in the country.
To regulate the training policies and programs in
the field of nursing.
To promote research in nursing.
Prescribe code of ethics and professional conduct.
To improve the quality of nursing education.
Programs under INC:
- ANM
-GNM
-Post basic B.Sc.Nursing
- B.Sc.Nursing
-M.Sc.Nursing
-M phill
-Ph D in Nursing
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Professional Association:
Trained Nurses Association of India (TNAI):
in 1908, at annual conference held in Bombay, a decision
was taken to established Trained nurses association.
In 1909, the association was inaugurated.
In 1912, the TNAI got affilitated with the ICN.
This national professional association was established
legally in the year 1922. In the beginning the TNAI was
formed by a group of nursing superintendents. This
association connects at district, state, national and
international levels. They have their headquarters at Green
park , New Delhi, where they publish its national journal
called the Nursing Journal of India. Office bearers include the
TNAI president, vice president, secretary and treasurer etc.
Objectives:
To promote high standards of health care and nursing
practice.
To advance professional, educational and general welfare
of nurses.
Aims of TNAI:
Integrate all trained nurses in India and promote as a whole,
meet their individual needs.
Update and upgrade the nursing profession, promote
development and standardization of nursing services and
education.
Reward the best nurses in all categories every year by
providing the Florence nightingale nurses award on May 12 in
Delhi.
Help in formulating and developing the nursing curriculum
 Organizational setup:
President
First vice president
Second vice president
Third vice president
Honorary Treasurer
Secretary general
Assistant secretary cum SNA Advisor
Assistant secretary
Editor
President one from each state
Joint secretaries
Co-opted members
Chairpersons of standing committees
Ex-offficio members.
Membership:
the membership consist of the following:
- Full membership: fully qualified registered nurses.
- Associated membership: Health visitors and
midwives and auxillary nurse midwives.
- Affiliate membership: Students nurses and member
of affiliate organization.
- Institutional membership: Any organization with
similar objectives and philosophy as that of TNAI.
Benefits from TNAI Membership:

- It will improve the lives and careers of all

professional nurses.
- share and solves professional problems.
- It holds national level conference.
- research studies conducted regularly for the
benefit of the member.
- continuing education programs for update
knowledge on various topics at regular interval.
Function of TNAI:
The association organizes scholarships for eligible
student nurses.
It regularly organizes seminar and conferences at
all level.
It conduct in service and continuing education.
It publishes The Nursing Journal of India which is
distributed in all nursing colleges and schools.
they connect the student nurses through the student
nurses association advisors of all levels.
To promote legislation.
 To enunciate standards of nursing services and
implement these through appropriate channel.
To stimulate and promote research designed to
increase the knowledge on which the practice of
nursing is based.
To promote and protect the economic welfare of
nurses.
To provide professional counseling and placement
service for nurses.
To promote the general health and welfare of the
public through all association programs, relationship
and activities.
Objectives:
To help students to uphold the dignity and the
ideals of the profession for which they are qualifying.
To promote a corporate spirit among students for
common good.
To furnish nurses in training with advice in their
courses for study.
To develop leadership skills and help students gain
wide range of knowledge.
To encourage students to compete for prizes in the
student nurses competitions.
To encourage both professional and recreational
meetings, sports.
Organizational Structure:
( At Unit Level)
At State Level:
At the Headquarters:
Activities:
Organization of meeting and conference: The first
SNA was held in 1951 and the first biennial SNA
conference was held at Nagpur in 1961. Organization
meeting and conference at all level which provide for
the members to discuss and find solution for various
problem faced by the student.
Maintenance of SNA diary: Diaries are assessed
annually by state SNA advisor and the two best diaries
are sent to national SNA advisor for biennial
evaluation and awards.
 Exhibition: the first exhibition was inaugurated in
1933. All categories of the students are eligible to
participate either individual or in group.
Public speaking and writing: Public speaking and
writing are encourage at all level for two reason: to
increase self confidence in the student. And to help
them gain skill in communication.
Project undertaking: it is a recent idea which is
gaining popularityamong nursing student. Ex.
Community project such as school health project,
nutrition survey, immunization etc.
Fund raising: it is done by getting
voluntary donation.

Socio- cultural and recreational

activities: student can be take part into fine
arts like dance, music, paintings and
competitions are arranged at the time of
conferences.
SUMMARY
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