Dr Rubina Barolia

Message From The President

   

Dear Members,

Welcome to the Rho Delta Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. I am delighted to share that I have started to work as the President of the Chapter.  As I reflect over the last several years, I begin to realize the chapter activities are showing tremendous impact in the nursing education, practice and research.  

I would like to extend my gratitude to the Chair & Co-Chairs of Newsletter, Publicity & Web editing Committee for their hard work in compiling and publishing this newsletter. The committee now has introduced the newsletter through online portal, using the blogger website.

The Rho Delta Chapter is now celebrating its completion of 17^th year.  Rho Delta Chapter is now a community of distinguish members, including nursing students and nurses who are serving as Faculty members, clinical nurses, leaders, and researchers. Almost all the members are working towards improving health through nursing scholarship, service, practice, and research.  

It is also a pride moment for the chapter that the members are collaborating to work with other disciplines, government and private sectors to improve the quality of life the low income population and the vulnerable segments of the population. Few of the activities are listed in this newsletter. It is my hope to work more on improving nursing education in the country by providing continuing education to nurses, nurse educators and clinician. The chapter continues to strive towards increasing the number of nursing faculty and nursing leaders from all over country. 

I must admit that there is lot of opportunities made available to the Rho delta members to make regional and international collaboration and work together as one nursing community. I strongly believe that with all individual differences and qualities together we can make world peaceful with global health for all. As His Highness the Aga Khan IV said “We would be required to respect the immense diversity of ethnicities, of languages and of cultures, of faiths, of philosophies. In short, we learned to embrace the values of Global Citizenship” (His Highness speech, Toronto, Canada, 21 September 2016)

I would like to express my gratitude to all Rho Delta Chapter’s board of directors; officers and members for their time and services to improve the image and status of nursing profession nationally, regionally and globally.

Regards,

Dr. Rubina Barolia 

President - Rho Delta Chapter 

Ms Mehtab Jaffer

Dear Chapter Members and fellow colleagues,

Greetings from Rho Delta News letter Committee

It is an immense pleasure to share with you another newsletter of Rho Delta Chapter from the period of January- July 2019. The committee has captured all the reported news within this online portal. We hope that you will also appreciate this innovative initiative of the committee for putting all the hard work.

All this will now just be a click away!

Looking forward for your same contribution in future ahead.

With warmest thanks
Regards

Mehtab Jaffer
Chair Newsletter, Publicity & Web editing committee
Rho Delta Chapter

To celebrate IDM 2019, Ms. Shahnaz Shahid and Ms. Farzana Adnan along with the BScM students took initiative to facilitate sessions on parenthood and early childhood development (ECD) for the postnatal mothers at the Aga Khan secondary sites Garden, Karimabad and Kharader on May 6 and 7, 2019.  The session focused on the importance of parenthood and strategies to promote ECD. In addition, key messages related to the sessions were made by the students and given to the participants as a token of remembrance.

Shahnaz Shahid Senior Instructor SONAM

Rethinking Workshop (RTT):

Faculty from Sonam and active member of STTI attended 4 days workshop where the outline of the course was as follows:
- To develop a concept map of the core materials in your course. 
 - To develop learning outcomes and align this to assessment practices.
 explore an approach to course design consistent with your subject-matter understanding.
 -To work in small multi-disciplinary groups and benefit from peer and facilitator feedback and self-evaluation.
 - To experience and examine various innovative teaching strategies including those enabled by technology.

Mehtab Jaffer, Senior Instructor, SONAM

Strengthening Capacity on Advanced Critical Care Nursing

SONAM faculty trained healthcare professionals from different hospitals and healthcare institutions in Karachi on advanced concepts in managing patients in critical care setting.

A series of workshops was held at the Aga Khan University on June 12 and 13, 2019 facilitated by senior instructors Ms Laila Akber Cassum and Ms Shaista Meghani, and clinical preceptor Ms Anny Amir Ali to build participants’ understanding on advanced critical care nursing concepts including hemodynamic management, airway and ventilator care management, ECG and arrhythmias management, chest x-ray and ABGs interpretation. A total of 22 participants were engaged in these interactive and activity-based sessions.

Laila Akber Cassum, Aga Khan university School of Nursing and Midwifery, Senior Instructor

I would like to dedicate my achivements in the memory of my beloved mother, late Shahina Dawar
Shah. I lost my mother during my studies, but I redeemed my courage to complete my thesis,
as my mother was my basic inspiration. I did my MScN from AKUSONAM with great distinction.

Saima Dawar, Bahria Town Hospital Karachi, Assistant Manager Nursing

Managing epileptic women in pregnancy

This article was highlighted in order to develop life style and dietary modifications of clients dealing with epilepsy during pregnancy.

https://www.heighpubs.org/cjog/cjog-aid1015.php

Saima Rajpali, King Faisal Specialist Hospital

Ms. Khairunnissa Hooda presented paper on “Process Redesigns to Meet Increasing Demand at Emergency Department’’ at a  leading Tertiary Care University Hospital in a large metropolis of Pakistan in collaboration with Business Process Reengineering Team of Aga Khan University on February  22, 2019 in San Antonio, Texas at Healthcare Systems Process Improvement Conference 2019.

Khairunnissa Hooda Senior Business Manager Emergency Medicine Office

Ms. Khairunnissa Hooda & Ms. Naureen Lalani participated at Annual Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Conference on April 17, 2019 in Karachi, Pakistan. The conference was based on an ambitious plan of engaging stake holders and enablers to identify high level D&I issues impacting sustainability of organizations to carry out further research and raise them with relevant institutions/policy makers for corrective measures/reforms.

Ms. Khairunnissa Hooda & Ms. Naureen Lalani Annual Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Conference 2019

Members of Rho Delta Chapter representing 24/7 Emergency & Acute Care Service Line and  Department of Infection Prevention and Hospital Epidemiology of the Aga Khan University Hospital celebration Infection Control week from May 20 – 24, 2019  to promote Health Professionals knowledge and practices regarding Infection Prevention & Control in Patient Care Delivery process at Emergency Medicine. Faculty and staff  contributed and participated with great enthusiasm.

Global Encounter Camp 2019-Deep Dive session with SONAM:

On July 3rd, 2019, RHO active members including few SONAM faculty have conducted overview session for young leaders of Global Encounter Camp. There were total 12 participants. In this two hours session, the participants were able to walk through the overview of nursing profession. It include some fun games, think, pair, share activity, and panel discussions. The presenters include Dr. Yasmin Amarsi, Dr. Laila Ladak, Ms. Arusa Lakhani, Ms. Saleema Gulzar, Ms. Laila Cassum, Ms. Farzana Yameen, Ms. Zohra Jetha, and Mr. Hussain Maqbool. The session activity was moderated by Ms. Mehtab Jaffer.