CAPACITY BUILDING FOR NURSES DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC

As part of the “International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife – 2020”, a webinar on “Capacity building for nurses during COVID-19 pandemic” was organised by the Department of Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing, Manipal College of Nursing Manipal on 14th September 2020. Clinical Nurses, Nurse Educators, and Nursing students from different countries participated in the webinar. The sessions were deliberated by Capt Ajitha PS, Chief Operating Officer, Avitis Institute of Medical Sciences, Palakkad, Kerala on the topic ‘Capacity building for the nurses during COVID-19 pandemic’ and Mrs Charmaine C Salins, Quality Control Nurse, Kasturba Hospital, Manipal, Karnataka, on the topic ‘Patient Safety during COVID-19 pandemic’. The webinar was attended by 148 participants.