With a membership of 60,000 nationwide, the National Student Nurses’ Association mentors the professional development of future registered nurses and facilitates their entrance into the profession by providing educational resources, leadership opportunities, and career guidance.
The Student Nurses’ Association, popularly known as SNA, is a nation-wide organization of nursing students. It was established in 1929 at the time of annual conference of the TNAI in Madras. The main purpose of forming the Association by TNAI was to provide vanities to the nursing students, facilitate their all round development and accredit them to join TNAI as qualified nurses.
Student Nurses Association is one of the best platform for the student nurses to participate actively in curricular and co-curricular activities, community health related activities, communicate issues and concerns relevant to nursing. The SNA unit of Pushpagiri College of Nursing was established in the year 2002. SNA unit aids in the development of the personality of student nurses, his or her professional role and responsibility for health care of people in all walks of their life. SNA works to provide opportunity for personal, intellectual, professional and social growth of its members. SNA unit conducts various educational and cultural programmes on special health days, monthly gathering and various clubs. Students are actively participating in Unit, Zonal and State educational and cultural competitions.
SNA during academic year 2024-2025
The SNA elections of the 2024-2025 was conducted on 29th Jan 2025, Wednesday and new members were elected.
The Following are the Newly Elected Members of the Students Nurses Association:
President
Prof. Vineetha Jacob
SNA Advisor
Mrs. Leena Ponnachan
SNA Vice Advisor
Miss. Ann Merin Alex
| Chairperson: Mr.Jobin Joy | Vice Chairperson: Ms. Sharmi K Abraham | |
| Programme Chairperson: Ms. Nandana S | General Secretary: Ms. Angelin J Alappatt | |
| Joint Secretary: Ms. Ashley Babu | Treasurer: Ms. Neethu Omman Jacob | |
| Faculty Advisor: Mrs. Leena Ponnachan |
Poster Competition on the subject ‘No to Dowry’ was was conducted on 03-09-2021 at 1.30 pm by the SNA/students union at Pushpagiri College of Nursing as per the instructions from KUHS. The winners are- Ms. Honey K. H (2nd year B.Sc) Ms. Minnu Mathew (4th year BSc) Ms. Serin Joshy (3rd year BSc)
SNA unit of Pushpagiri college of nursing has celebrated International Nurses day on 18th May 2019 at the college auditorium. On this occasion a message was delivered by Sr. Serena CMC, Asso. Professor, Pushpagiri college of nursing and students conducted various cultural programs. All students and faculties actively participated in this celebration.
SNA/ COLLEGE UNION Arts fest of Pushpagiri College of Nursing for the academic year 2018 – 2019 was conducted on 6 th and 7 th March 2019. Rev. Fr. Mathew Mazhavancheril, Academic Director inaugurated the fest. Competitions were started by 10 a.m. Second day (7 th March competitions were started from 8.30 a.m. Students from
Annual sports meet for the academic year 2018-2019 was conducted at Municipal stadium Thiruvalla on 16/02/2019. Competitions were started from 7 am onwards. The inaugural function commenced by Pariyarath(Hospital administrator and Director IT and Marketing,Pushpagiri Medical College). Ms.Feba Daisy John, Sports secretary delivered the sports oath to the students. Students exhibited their talents in all
Pushpagiri College of Nursing has conducted Christmas day celebration on 22nd December 2018 in the College auditorium between 2 to 4 PM. The program started with a prayer and Christmas message was delivered by Rev. Fr. John Padippurakkal, DirectorFacilities Management. Carol songs were sung by the students.
