NATIONAL SERVICE SCHEME (NSS)
National Service Scheme is an Indian Government sponsored programme under the Department of Youth Affairs & Sports of the Government of India. It was launched in Gandhiji’s Centenary year, 1969, aimed at “Developing Student’s Personality through Community Service”.
The motto of NSS; “NOT ME, BUT YOU” expresses the essence of democratic living and upholds the need for selfless services and appreciation of another man’s point of view and also show consideration for fellow human beings. It insists that the welfare of an individual is ultimately dependent on the welfare of the society as a whole.
National Service Scheme is a Nobel experiment in academic expansion. It inculcates the spirit of voluntary work among the students and teachers through sustained community interaction.
OBJECTIVES
- Develop among themselves a sense of social and civic responsibility
- Apply their education in finding practical solution to individual and community problems
- Develop competence required for group living and sharing responsibilities
- Identify the needs and problems in the community in the solution of which they can be involved.
- Acquire leadership qualities and democratic attitude
- Develop capacity to meet emergencies and national disasters and
- Practice national integration.
ACTIVITIES
NSS unit of KVM College of Nursing had executed certain programmes for the welfare and betterment of the society.
- Awareness class on AIDS and a skit on “End Isolation, End Stigma and End Transmission”
- Health Camp along with health exhibition and puppet show.
- Camp mainly focused on Identification of Life style Diseases; mainly Hypertension and Diabetes with prior registration followed by blood pressure and sugar monitoring and BMI assessment.
- Health Exhibition based on Life Style Disorders was also conducted.
- A Puppet Show on Dengue Fever was conducted by students.
- Health Exhibition to generalize awareness regarding malaria
- A campaign was conducted to control Transmission of communicable disease
- An awareness class to spot out the ill-effects of tobacco use was performed on No Tobacco Day.
- As a contribution to Mother Earth the World Environment Day was accentuated by distributing 150 saplings supplied by the forest department.
MEMBERS
| NSS Coordinator : | Mr Arun M ,Assistant Professor |
| Volunteers | Leaders – Suvarna P Kaimal and Ashik A |
| YEAR | NAME OF STUDENTS |
| First year BSc Nursing | Ain Nicolas, Sameer, Aditya, Athulya, Parvathy P, Maya, Gopu, Aiswarya, Anju, Angel Jacob |
| 2nd year BSc Nursing | Alan M Justin, Julie Jaymon, Gayathri Viswanath, Nileena Philip, Sreelekshi T S, Sijo K S, Sachin Yeshudas, Arya P J, Akhila, Sonia M K, Sreelekshmi V |
| 3rd year BSc Nursing | Amal Tomy, Aswathy V, Aiswarya Satheesan, Babitha B, Krupa Abraham, Annie Reji, Alitha Ajith, Abhirami Aravindan, Rahul J Prakash, Megha Joseph, Gopika Sreekumar |
| 4th year BSc Nursing | Athira S Nair, Anjali Krishna, Aiswarya Venugopal, Akhil Dev, Gini Xavier, Ginu Xavier, Jolly Joseph, Shamnas,Vishnu G N |