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 |
Student Nurse’s association & union of Pushpagiri College of Nursing conducted various educational competitions as a part of Nurse’s Day celebration. Essay writing and Elocution were conducted on the theme ‘Nurses: A voice to lead-Health is a human right.
REPORT OF SNA ZONAL LEVEL OUTDOOR SPORTS MEET 2018 Pushpagiri college of nursing enthusiastically participated in SNA South East Zonal level Sports Meet 2018 and which is held on 25/04/2018 at Municipal stadium Pathanamthitta.41 students accompanied with 2 teachers(Ms.Suby Iype and Ms.Anitha Eapen). Total of 15 colleges participated from the different part of South East
