ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>TNAI JOURNAL</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0" name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY background="../../img/thenursaningjournalH1.gif"> <DIV align=left> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0> <TBODY> <TR bgColor=#006699> <TD> <DIV align=center><img src="img/thenursaningjournal.gif" width="400" height="123"></DIV> </TD></TR> <TR> <TD> <DIV align=center><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">January 2009&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;VOL. C No. 1</font></b></DIV> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV> <HR noShade> <DIV align=right>&lt;&lt; <A href="javascript:history.back()">Previous Page</A><BR></DIV> <table width="95%" border=0 align="center" cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0> <tbody> <tr bgcolor=#f8efcd> <td height="70" valign="top" bgcolor="#C6ECFF"> <div align=center> <p align="CENTER"><strong><font color="#000000" size="4" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Presidential Address by Mr. Arvind B. Kulkarni, President TNAI at The Centenary Conference: 4-7 November 2008<br> Sri Shanmukhanand Auditorium, Sion, Mumbai</strong></font></strong> <p align="CENTER">&nbsp;</div></td> </tr> <tr bgcolor=#f8efcd> <td height="1322" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="2" bgcolor="#006699"> <tr> <td height="1314" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <blockquote> <div align="left"> <table width="90%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3"> <tr> <td width="30%"><img src="31.jpg" width="211" height="212"></td> <td width="70%" valign="top"> <div align="center"> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Presidential Address by Mr. Arvind B. Kulkarni, President TNAI at<br> The Centenary Conference: 4-7 November 2008<br> Sri Shanmukhanand Auditorium, Sion, Mumbai </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Our Beloved, Most Revered Chief Guest, </font></p> <p align="left"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulbdeen Abdul Kalamji The distinguished guests on </font></p> <p align="left"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">the Dias, in the Auditorium and My Dear Sisters and Brothers!</font></p> </div></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><div align="justify"> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> On this historical day, we express our deep gratitude towards the visionary nurses who laid down the foundation of TNAI one hundred years ago, here in Mumbai. The year of its origin was 1905, when Nursing Superintends Association was formed. The Wheel of the  Kalchakra has completed its full circle. One hundred years ago, the nurses took the decision to bring all the nurses under one umbrella and christened it as Trained Nurses Association of India i.e. TNAI. This happened in Mumbai s JJ Hospital. Miss T K Adranwala the-then Assistant Matron of JJ Hospital had told once, that the initial meetings of TNAI were conducted in JJ Hospital.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> The-then Nursing Superintendents of Cama Hospital and St. Georges Hospital were among the few members who took initiative. It is a God s grace and blessing for this marvelous decision that once again a person associated with JJ Hospital and Mumbai as a whole is given an opportunity to be the President on the occasion of Centenary. I was designed by Sassoon Hospital Pune. But JJ Hospital has been a launching pad for me. All the nurses in general and nurses in Maharashtra in particular, are proud that their Association is ready to take off for the next century once again from Mumbai. TNAI is functioning for last 100 years and marching ahead with increasing speed and strength. The reason is, there are two kinds of lives, one is the life of  values and the other is a life of  valuables . If a person or an institution / organisation starts giving too much importance to valuables, then values are left aside. When values are ignored, the person or institution gets devalued.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> When values are honoured at any cost, the person s or institution s growth is definite. TNAI has existed through rough weather, rough waters, turbulences, because it has never deviated from the values. The dignity and honour of people (the clients) and the nurses (the care giver) was never compromised during this journey. It has accepted criticism from outsiders as well as from within for this. Time has proved that the TNAI is on the right track, and in the right orbits. Nursing profession has grown with time and overall human development. The speed of the development in sciences- both physical and behavioural and the technology have affected our lives.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Nurses are no exception. The journey of nursing has been highlighted by our senior Nursing Officer Mr T Dileep Kumar while introducing the theme of the Conference  Future of Nursing: Implication of Nursing Education, Practice and Research. As a President of this great organisation, I would like to mention here that the TNAI has always played its role in this development. Many a time it is asked, that with increasing use of technology, are nurses losing their place in the health care system? The answer is big  NO! The technology has changed the nurses role. And nurses are ready with it. Advanced technology is in urban areas, and metro cities. What about rural population, our senior citizens and school children? The NRHM- a flagship programme of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India has underlined the need of Trained Birth Attendants (TBA). </font></p> </div></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr align="JUSTIFY"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><div align="justify"> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Nurses are the major partners in this mission. The contribution of nurses has started yielding the results. The achievements of TNAI are numerous. It is representing nurses at national and international levels. It has achieved success in regaining honour and dignity for nurses and nursing profession and in creating espirit de corps amongst the professionals from Kashmir to Kanyakumari and from Assam to Gujarat. As our Defense forces are our pride, so are our Nurses in Defense services, ever ready to keep our defense personnel and their family members fit 24 x 7 (or 24 x 365). Nurses are our country s life line, serving ESI, Railways and so on. TNAI has become a platform of trust for nurses everywhere. The dedicated services by the Office bearers and the support staff at National and State level in the past and present needs a pat of appreciation and gratitude.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> We should remember, the majority are women. They are working women and housewives also. In addition to their traditional roles they have shouldered the burden to keep professional association intact and alive. I salute them all. I can feel the restlessness of my brothers. My dear brothers, we have an equal share in this journey. As our culture has imbibed our role of heading the family, protecting the members, taking major share in responsibilities etc. we are there always indeed, Prakrity and Purush together constitute an entity. They are not rival of each other, nor do they have superiority over each other. They are equals and the nature has well defined roles for each one. This is an answer to the raised eyebrows towards men in nursing. In Shakespeare s words,  We have our roles and we have played it with full involvement . Regarding the future plans and challenges before us, after introspection we will be sharing them in our meetings on 6-7 November 2008.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Before this audience let us accept that though our achievements are many much is left to be done for both, our own profession and the public in general. With our growth, the public expectations are ever increasing. These expectations sometime carry a sense of dissatisfaction amongst them. It is not a love- hate relationship. It is a real and deep love they express when we don t match their expectations. Let us take positive strokes, encouragement, and motivation from this dissatisfaction, criticism and convert them into our energy for marching ahead with rededication. We have to shade away our outdated paths. Now we do not need flyovers and airports. We require more  Space Stations to explore and reach new worlds. As our Distinguished Chief Guest has said, India has a potential to discover new Akashgangas and become a Superpower by 2020. Nurses will be a super factor to make this super power healthy- physically, mentally, socially and spiritually. Let us Awake, Arise, and Act! From now itself. 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