Editorial

Dr. Venkita S. Suresh

Group Medical Director, Kauvery Hospitals, India

Dear Colleagues,

15 Nightingales sing for you on the 15th Aug edition of the NIGHTINGALE.

This Independence Day edition also marks the end of the first year of the very successful publication of the NIGHTINGALE.

We have published 61 authors and 109 papers for your kind reading.

This edition features many first-time authors, which is our prime objective.

Umarani and Jasmine from Heart City write about a beautiful little girl who was diagnosed with a complete heart block at age 2. But all was well till a fever and syncope happened together recently. She now has a pacemaker that will keep her safe.

Josephine Angel, also from Heart City, reports a tough one – Cardiorenal amyloidosis associated with a non-secretary Myeloma.

Parimala from Chennai goes Vascular! She reports a DVT treated with Angiojet PMT! Bravo!

Esthar, Nursing leader of Heart City, reports a “Tour de force!” – Emergency CABG in Acute MI!

Marilakshmi, a Nurse Educator from Nellai, is a NIGHTINGALE who sings again, again and again. She sings thrice! – on Meatotomy, Septic Shock and Stab injury! Thus, she inspires future authors – thrice!

A very proud Jaisha, Dialysis-in-Charge at Hosur, describes the Journey of Dialysis that began at Hosur in 2015, growing from 2 machines and 1 staff to 18 machines and 17 staff, doing an average of 1486 dialyses a month!

In honour of the World Organ Donation Day on 13 August, Poornima and Jency from Tennur, Trichy remind us that “Measure of life is not its duration but donation”.

Gethsial Kiruba, editor of this journal, reviews the concept of “Innovation at the front line of Nursing”, described in an article published recently in the American Journal of Nursing.

Harini, Pharm D student on her interning at Kauvery Trichy prior to her graduation from college, writes on the Clinical Pharmacy of a remarkable tropical parasitic disease ‘Hydatid Cyst”.

Vinitha Marimuthu, a freshly minted Clinical Pharmacist at Kauvery Trichy, makes her debut by singing the hitherto unsung story of Rosalind Franklin whose original work on the DNA was deftly adapted by Watson and Crick to win the Nobel Prize.

R. Prabhaharan, the tech editor of the Journal, reviews Elsevier’s Journal “Medicine”, to summarise’ Neurology for Nurses’.

13 nightingales sang in text but the last two sing in verse.

Poet Shanthi Helen Sophia from Cantonment, who is making a debut on this issue, and our seasoned poet Balasubramaniam from Salem, very appropriately are the last two of the fifteen Nightingales. They close this issue of the NIGHTINGALE with their poems.

Do hear, and sing, with the NIGHTINGALE.

Best regards

Dr. Venkita S. Suresh

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