NEW WEBSITE SEEKS TO PROMOTE NURSING AS A CAREER IN GOA PANJIM, May 25: A new not-for-profit website, to promote nursing as a career in Goa, has been recently launched. It is accessible on the internet at http://nursing.goa-india.org
Goa, which has provided generations of nurses to the rest of India and the outside world, currently has three nursing education institutions, including the government-run one at Altinho for which admissions are currently underway. The website seeks to offer links to various aspects of nursing, right from explaining what the career involves to options available to students, both in Goa and beyond. By linking up with a wide range of information available in cyberspace, the nursing.goa-india.org site attempts to make it easy to anyone interested in nursing to find current information on the subject, says a press release issued here. Apart from basic articles introducing the career, the site offers options to B.Sc. Nursing (at Goa, St Martha's Bangalore and other institutions), nursing jobs, and nursing as a career. Of special interest would be a number of links to the CGFNS, a route which offers qualified nurses openings for good jobs in the US. CGFNS (Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools) is a qualifying examination that is required from graduates of nursing schools outside the United States who are interested in practicing as registered nurses in the U.S. It tests candidates' nursing knowledge and their understanding and use of English language skills. Successful candidates are awarded a CGFNS Certificate when they have passed both the nursing section and the English language section of the examination. CGFNS offers training in India, including in Bangalore, and conducts exams in places like Kochi. There are also links to home-nursing options, made available in Goa through institutions like the Siolim-based ISEAF. As the number of elderly grows steadily in Goa, home-nursing could be seen as increasingly important not just by students wanting to go in for it, but also by relatives of patients on the lookout for care-givers. Likewise, the site links to information on US nurse visas, the RN+India site, books on nursing, news for nurses, general nursing nursing information, and online initiatives like allnurse.com, discovernursing.com and sci.med.nursing. This site has been set up as a tribute to Felicia Noronha, a former nurse, midwife and matron, who passed away earlier this year. ENDS
