Nursing practice in 21st Century faces a number of challenges including a growing population of hospitalization patients who are older and more acutely ill, increasing health care costs and the need to stay current with rapid advances in medical knowledge and technology. These challenges are complicated by an existing shortage of nurses, an aging nurse work force, a shortage of nursing faculty members and prospects of a worsening nurse shortage. In addition, a new models of overall healthcare delivery are being developed that will impact the workforce and care delivery. To address these challenges, employers will seek nurses who have knowledge, skills and attitudes that are aligned with the requirements of their practice environment, can work effectively in inter professional teams across of variety of health care settings and can provide traditional nursing services as well as other needed services such as case and practice leadership, case management, health promotion and disease prevention.
As a critical component of the healthcare workforce, the nursing profession must keep pace with changes in the healthcare environment to ensure the continued delivery of high quality, safe and effective patients care.
Therefore, under the aegis (Management) of Dr. Chhang’s Super Specialty Hospital, Siliguri, The Novena College & School of Nursing has been established in 2019 to provide good educational facilities and a wide scope for clinical experience to the students. This nursing college & school has filled the gap between supply and demand of efficient and effective nursing workforce.
The dream to provide a complete and an ideal health care services with a vision, a vision with a purpose. The vision to provide" the best and at par with world-class medical and surgical expertise and diagnostic facilities plus amenities but which should be made affordable for the general population at large".
The dream has begun to unfold with laying down of foundation stone of Dr. Chhang's Super Specialty Hospital (CSSH) more than a decade ago, but yet to go a long way to become fully operational. With great effort and God's blessing, concrete and steel taken shape of our hospital, the CSSH. A hospital started, a new era in the field of healthcare has begun with addition of related, in-house under one roof, investigative / diagnostic facilities and facilities for surgical and radiological intervention. In addition, in-house pharmacy, food and lodging facilities are also available for the patient's relatives.
In our country we do have very advance medical and surgical arrangements, but most are too expensive and beyond the financial capacities of common people. The government health-care institutions do provide free or less expensive treatments, but unfortunately the effective quality of the surgical, medical, diagnostic and pathological services are few and lacking.
The dream of a hospital with the best and world-class medical and surgical facilities and technologies which should be affordable for public at large, was established in 2005.