Little Flower College of Nursing

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Welcome to Little Flower College of Nursing

Jubilee Memorial Hospital, Palayam was established in the year 1987 as the land mark of the Golden Jubilee Celebration of the Archdiocese of Trivandrum, with the motto “Promotion of life through health care with love”. For the past 35 years this hospital is catering the health needs of the people from all the walks of life, especially the poor and the middle class in the society.

A long way dream of New College building happened under the methodical leadership of Rev. Fr. Cleetus Vincent, Managing Director on 01.10.2019 at Manvila, inaugurated by Shri. Kadakampally Surendran, Minister for Co-operation, Tourism and Devaswoms and blessed by Excellency Most. Rev. Dr. Christudas. R, Auxiliary Bishop Archdiocese of Trivandrum.

Our new college is located in Manvila, in a four-acre land surrounded by lush and exotic greenery with a pleasant fresh air campus hardly 2 km from College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram. Little Flower, Saint Therese of Lisieus Roman Catholic Latin Church is situated near to our college. The infrastructure of College building is spacious and equipped sufficiently as per the norms of Kerala University of Health Sciences, Kerala Nurses and Midwives Council and Indian Nursing Council.

Mission

The mission of the college is to give professional nursing education with all available medical technology and hands on practical exposure to the nursing students based on Christian values and principles, to reach out to health care service sector, to uphold values in the society and to promote preventive, curative and rehabilitative care to individuals, family and community.

Vision

The vision of the college is in line with the mission of Jesus Christ “Empower to heal with love”.

Our Motto

Enlighten to lighten.

Our Patron Saint – St. Therese of Lisieux

Therese of Lisieux was born to Marie Francoise -Therese Martin on 2 January 1873, she is popularly known in English as the Little Flower of Jesus or simply the Little Flower. Pope Pius X called her “the greatest saint of modern times”.

Therese felt an early call to religious life and after overcoming various obstacles, in 1888, at age 15, she became a nun and joined two of her elder sisters in the cloistered Carmelite community of Lisieux, Normandy. She served as a Carmelite nun, having fulfilled various offices such as sacristan and assistant to the novice mistress. Therese died at the age of 24 from tuberculosis.

After her death, Therese became known globally through her spiritual memoir, The Story of a Soul, which explains her theology of the “Little Way”. As a result of her immense popularity and reputation for holiness, she was quickly beatified and canonized by Pope Pius XI, who completed the process just 28 years after her death. In 1997, Pope John Paul II declared her a Doctor of the Church. Her feast day in the General Roman Calendar was 3 October from 1927 until it was moved in 1969 to 1 October. Therese was beatified in 1923 and canonized in 1925. She was declared the patron saint of France and her feast day is celebrated on October 1.

Under the loving patronage of St. Therese of Lisieux, the ‘Little Flower’, we draw inspiration from her unwavering trust, childlike simplicity and boundless love for God and humanity. Guided by the Little Flower’s spirit of love, simplicity and devotion, we strive to embody her legacy of compassion, kindness and faith.

Philosophy

Health is a state of well – being that enables a person to lead a physically, psychologically, socially and economically productive life. Health is a right of all the people. Individuals, families and communities have responsibility towards maintaining their health.

Nursing contributes to the health service in a vital and significant way in the health care delivery system. It recognizes national health goals and is committed to participate in the implementation of National Health Policies and Programmes. It aims at identifying health needs of the people, planning and providing quality care in collaboration with other health professionals and community groups.

Scope of nursing practice encompasses provision of promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative aspects of care to people across their life span in wide variety of health care settings. Practice of nursing is based upon application of basic concepts and principles derived from the physical, biological, behavioural sciences, medicine and nursing.

Nursing is based on values of caring, and aims to help individuals to attain independence in self-care. It necessitates developments of compassion and understanding of human behaviour among its practitioners to provide care with respect and dignity and protect the rights of individuals & groups.

Undergraduate nursing programme is broad based education within an academic frame work specifically directed to the development of critical thinking skills, competencies and standards required for practice of professional nursing and midwifery as envisaged in National Health Policy 2002.

The teachers have the responsibility to be role models and create learning environment that enables students to acquire inquiry driven, self-directed learning and foster an attitude of lifelong learning.

Undergraduate nursing education program prepare its graduates to become exemplary citizen by adhering to code of ethics and professional conduct at all times in fulfilling personal, social and professional obligations so as to respond to national aspirations.