by Shabbir Hussain Jatial Let us all appreciate our own Ms. Naorin Farhan, viral in the limelight of almost all mainstream national media today. No doubt she's become a known face of civil society as a grassroots facilitator for women empowerment with the successful execution of her signature Scooty Project Execution but has also brought a powerful image of the nursing community. We could make her's another successful story to inspire new generation nurses who think beyond stereotype parameters and have a greater impact on the lives of communities and are well recognized in return. Another Nurse Entrepreneur in the Rising. Zhavia - زاویہ (Dimension) founder Ms. Naorin Farhan, an AKUSONAM graduate, is significantly changing communities' health perspectives in liaison with provincial governments, WHO, and other INGOs in Sindh and Balochistan. Working with far-off poverty-ridden and urban communities whose health and empowerment have been co...
Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for Managing Nurses’ Duty Roster Version 3 (January 2019) Developed By: Khalil Ahmed Head Nurse, CCU, IH, PIMS, Islamabad Description: The purpose of developing these SOPs was to create uniformity and clarity in the policies regarding nurses’ duty roster. This document has brought the already practised rule into written form. The first version of the SOPs was introduced in Emergency and Accident Center, PIMS in 2014. Further improvements have been brought in the subsequent versions. Constructive feedback would be appreciated. A sample duty roster which incorporates some of these rules is attached. SOPs Rationales 1. Days off available in a month: 1.1. Weekly off: A nurse will be eligible to avail weekly days off equal to the number of Sundays in a month. Because every Sunday is an official day off, therefore, all nurses are eli...