The Nursing Journal of India (NJI) is celebrating 100 years of disseminating the
concerns and perceptions of nursing community through its pages, and marching
ahead…
In a space of about two years after the The Trained Nurses’ Association of
India (TNAI) came into being in 1908, a need was felt to bring out a periodical
that would vent out the distinct concerns and anxieties of the nursing community,
and thus appeared the first issue of Nursing Journal of India, that was
dated February 1910. NJI has been the mouthpiece of over two lakh members
which include Nurses, Student Nurses, Auxiliary Nurse Midwives and Lady
Health Visitors. The outstanding features of NJI has been its uninterrupted
publication initio, something to be proud of the events and programmes of
nurses and nursing organisations and institutions have been regularly covered
in NJI. The most recent of these includes the TNAI Centenary Celebrations
inaugurated by then Hon’ble Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare,
Dr Anbumani Ramadoss at a function with Hon’ble Chief Minister of NCT,
Delhi, Mrs Sheila Dikshit as the Guest of Honour and other dignitaries, held
at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi on 22 January 2008 and concluding at TNAI
Maharashtra State Branch in Mumbai by none other than the Former President
of India, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.
Naming of lane outside TNAI Headquarters in Green Park after the legendary
nurse Florence Nightingale, conduct of socio-economic programmes by TNAI in
States, conferrment of Florence Nightingale Awards by the President of India on
International Nurses’ Day on 12 May every year were some of the focus area of
NJI. There are several issues like Nurses Welfare Fund with provision of monthly
grant for needy (disabled, handicapped, aged or sick) members, submission of
memoranda to the Central Pay Commission, representations, status of TNAI and
SNA scholarships, TNAI Centenary Awards, details of new life membership card,
networking with national and international agencies, conduct of workshops and
conferences by TNAI related to Safe Motherhood, Child Nutritious and Survival,
Care of Infants and Children, publications of TNAI, Nightingale Initiative for
Global Health, global campaign gathering for 2 million signatures from all 192
UN members’ states, UN Resolution for an International Year of Nurses in 2010,
centennial of Florence Nightingale death, UN resolution for UN decade for a
healthy world 2011-2220, TNAI supporting and signing Nightingale Declaration
of Commitment to a Healthy World by 2020, progress in construction of Elderly
Care Home and Central Institute of Nursing (CIN) & Research Centre in Greater
Noida, nurses’ Representative in Rajya Sabha, establishment of new TNAI
branches, latest and available publications, continuing education programmes
in nursing, membership promotion, and so on are the subjects covered in various
issues of NJI for the benefit of readers.
We have been endeavouring to devise ways to improve the contents and
aesthetics of NJI, our limitations notwithstanding. At the same time we urge
the readers to give their suggestions for the betterment of NJI.
