The Nursing and Social Security Division (NSSD)

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Overview

The Nursing and Social Security Division (NSSD) was established in 2075 B.S and is responsible for delivery of quality health services through capacity development of nursing and it’s professionalism, including planning, coordination, supervision, monitoring and facilitation for various aspect of nursing, midwifery, school health and community nursing services and the evaluation of geriatric and gender based violence programme along with treatment and management facilities for selected diseases to impoverished Nepalese citizens at listed hospitals. The division is also responsible for development and revision of FCHVs and other health related social mobilizer’s policy, strategy, standard, protocol and guideline.

Sections

• Nursing Capacity Development Section
• Geriatric and Gender Based Violence Section
• Social Health Security Section

Major roles and functions

Nursing Capacity Development Section

• Co-ordinate, collaborate and facilitate the concerned agencies for the development and implementation of policy, strategy, standard, protocol and guideline to maintain quality in nursing service.
• Coordinate and facilitate the concerned agencies for the development of law, standard, protocol and guideline to produce, deploy and mobilize qualified and competent human resources in nursing profession.
• Develop capacity of nurses working in field of alternative medicine by developing Standard of practice for quality in nursing service.
• Coordinate and collaborate to develop policy, regulation, and guideline regarding Specialization in nursing care
• Assist and help the concerned agencies in developing national health related policies, strategies, standards, protocols and guidelines etc.
• Conduct research related activities to develop quality in nursing education and nursing services including specialized nursing educations and care services.
• Coordinate and facilitate in the various study, research aimed for the enhancement of quality of community and midwifery educations and care services.
• Coordinate, communicate, collaborate and facilitate the concerned agencies for the development and promotion of new field /scope of nursing services like school health nurse.
• Coordinate and facilitate the concerned agencies for the development and promotion of community nursing care services.
• Coordinate and facilitate the concerned agencies for the development and promotion of midwifery education and it’s care services.
• Collaborate and coordinate with the concerned agencies in developing nursing and midwifery human resource planning, capacity building, development, management.
• Develop the protocol of public health nursing and midwifery nursing care services.

Geriatric and Gender Based Violence Section

• Co-ordinate, collaborate and facilitate the concerned agencies for the development of policy, strategy, standard, protocol and guideline etc. of home based nursing care.
• Coordinate and facilitate the concerned agencies for the development and promotion of nursing care services in the field of geriatrics and other new field of healthcare services.
• Coordinate and facilitate for delivery of quality health services to people affected from gender based violence.
• Develop the standard, protocol and guidelines for the treatment and management of gender based violence.
• Monitor and facilitate while needed of established OCMCs.
• Coordinate with all concerned agencies, stakeholder’s organizations that work in the field of geriatrics and gender based violence.
• Develop the protocol, IEC materials for the delivery of quality health services with emphasis on geriatric friendly services from all type of health institutions, like public, private, profit, non-profit etc. ;and
• Provide technical support in promoting capacity of health care workers in geriatric health care and management of gender based violence.

Social Health Security Section

The Social Security, under Social Health Security Section was established in 2075 B.S and is responsible for free treatment and management facilities for selected diseases to impoverished Nepalese citizens at listed hospitals. The division is also responsible for development and revision of FCHVs and other health related social mobilizer’s policy, strategy, standard, protocol and guideline.

Recommended: GUIDELINE FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT OF DEPRIVED CITIZENS

• Develop the policy, strategy, standard, protocol and guideline etc. regarding easy access and provision of hospital based services to the target population.
• Overall management of “Bipanna Nagrik Aaushadi Programme”, treatment of serious health conditions of citizens, Social Security Unit (SSU} and One-Stop Crisis Management Centre (OCMC); and
• Develop and revise and update the policy, standard for FCHVs and other health related social mobilizers.

Major Programmes

• FCHV Programme
• Social Security
• Gender Based Violence Programmee
• Geriatric Ward Establishment Programmee

Information was collected from various documents, reports and government publications. For more update; please contact Nursing and Social Security Division (NSSD).

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Recommended organizational profile

• The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), Nepal
• Epidemiology and Disease Control Division, Department of Health Services
• Department of Drug Administration (DDA), Ministry of Health and Population
• Department of Health Services (DoHS), Ministry of Health and Population
• Department of Ayurveda and Alternative Medicine (DoAA)
• Epidemiology and Disease Control Division, Department of Health Services
• Family Welfare Division (FWD), Department of Health Services
• National Public Health Laboratory (NPHL)
• Province Health Directorate, Ministry of Social Development (MoSD)

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