This document discusses various statutory and regulatory bodies related to nursing. It defines statutory and regulatory bodies as organizations established by law to regulate an area of activity. It provides examples of international regulatory bodies like the International Council of Nurses (ICN) and the American Nurses Association (ANA), as well as national regulatory bodies in India like the Indian Nursing Council (INC) and the Trained Nurses Association of India (TNAI). The roles of these regulatory bodies are outlined as setting standards for nursing education and practice, maintaining nursing registration requirements, and ensuring quality healthcare. Key activities include accrediting educational programs, providing certification, and influencing health policy.

1. STATUTORY BODIES
Presented by:
Miss.Adlin Joys .A
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Child Health Nursing

2. DEFINITION
A statutory authority is a body set up by law which is
authorized to enact legislation on behalf of the relevant
country or state.

3. DEFINITION
• A regulatory body is a public authority or government agency
responsible for exercising autonomous authority over some
areas of human activity in a regulatory or supervising capacity.

4. MEANING
• Regulatory agencies are usualy a part of the executive branch
of the government of they have statutory authority regulatory
authorities are commonly are setup to enforce standards and
safety.

5. VITAL ROLE OF REGULATORY
BODIES
• TO support and assist professional members.
• Set and enforce standards of nursing practice.
• Monitor and enforce standards of nursing practice.
• To ensure the publics right to quality health service.
• Monitor and enforce standards for nursing education.
• Set the requirement for registration of nursing professionals.

6. MAJOR TYPE OF REGULATORY
BODIES
• International council for nurses[ICN]
• American nurses association[ANA]
• Indian nursing council[INC]
• Trained nurses association of india[TNAI]
• Student nurses association[SNA]

7. VITAL ROLE OF REGULATORY
BODIES
• To ensure the publics light to quality health care service.
• To support and assist professional members.
• Set and enforce standards of nursing practice
• Monitor and enforce standards of nursing practice.
• Set the requirements for registration of nursing professionals.

8. AIMS OF STATUTORY BODIES
OF NURSING
• To permit and encourage nurses to participate in and
influence public debate on health policy.
• To ensure that each of its accountable to the public for
nursing practice.

9. LEGAL POWER TO REGULATE
PROFESSION
Standards
of practice
Standard
of
education
Code of
conduct
and ethics
Standards
of
conduct
Standard of
maintaining
registration
Criteria for
expanding
scope of
practice

10. TYPES
• International Regulatory Bodies.
• National level Regulatory Bodies.
• State Level Regulatory Bodies.
• Local Level Regulatory Bodies.

11. INTERNATIONAL
REGULATORY BODIES
• WHO

12. • ANA

13. • UNO

14. • UNICEF

15. • ICN

16. NATIONAL LEVEL
REGULATORY BODIES
• INC

17. • CMAI

18. • NLN

19. STATE LEVEL REGULATORY
BODIES
• SNC

20. • SNA

21. • UNIVERSITIES

22. LOCAL LEVEL REGULATORY
BODIES
• COLLEGES

23. REGULATORY BODIES OF
NURSING IN INDIA
• DEFINITION:
• A regulatory agency is a public authority or regulatory body or
us a public authority or government agency responsible for
exercising autonomous authority over some area of human
activity in a regulatory or supervisory capacity.
• International regulatory body
• National regulatory body
• State level regulatory body
• Local level regulatory body

24. INTERNATIONAL
REGULATORY BODY
• The international council of nurses is a federation of national
nurses association [NNS],representing nurses in more than
128 countries.

25. GOALS
• Improve health and nursing care through the world .
• Coordinate efforts with the united nations and other
international organizations.
• Improve social and economic welfare of nurses
• Monitor how government and politics affect the nursing
profession and health care.

26. • MISSION:
• To represent nursing worldwide,advancing the profession and
influencing health policy.
• VISSION:
• The global community recognizes,supports,and invests in
nurses and nursing to lead and deliver health for all.

27. • CORE VALUES:
• Visionary leadership
• Inclusiveness
• Flexibility
• partnership

28. • ACTIVITIES:
• Advance nursing practice.
• Primary health care
• Family health.womans health
• Safe water

29. • NURSING REGULATORS:
• Code of ethics ,standards and competencies
• Continuing education

30. Main activities of ICN: ICN has identified three key program
areas as crucial to the betterment of nursing and health. These
are known as ICN‟s pillars and they are professional practice,
Regulation and socio-economic welfare.

31. • Objectives of ICN : To ensure that nurses and nursing is
central to development of social and health policy and its
implementation in the EU. To support and facilitate a
qualitative and equitable health service in the eu and Europe
by a strategic contribution to the development of a sufficient,
effective, competent and motivated work force of nurses.
Strengthening EFN representation in the EU and Europe and
develop EFN key role as bridge between NNA and decision
makers in the EU institution.

33. • Structure of ICN: The headquarters is in Geneva,
Switzerland. President. 3 Vice Presidents. 12 other
members elected by the council CNR meet every two years to
determine policy matters affecting the nursing profession.
The ICN congress is attached to the CNR every four years

34. • Functions of ICN: To promote the development of strong
national nurses associations. To assist the national nurses
association to improve the standards of nursing and the
competencies of nurses. To assist national nurses
associations to improve the status of nurses within their
countries. To serve as the authoritative voice for nurse and
nursing internationally. To ensure quality nursing care for all.

35. • 1. Global Impact- Goal: In form and influence the design and
implementation of health, social, educational and economic
policies at a global and regional level to promote health for all.
Actions
• 1. Provide expertise, activity and regulatory, in high-level
global or regional health, education, social, regulation,
environmental and economic policy events as the recognized
and valued of nurses and nursing internationally. 2. Position
nurses as pivotal to achieving good health and well-being of
individuals and populations. 3. Build collaborative
interprofessional and intersectoral relationships and advance
joint activities with key global organizations. 4. Continue to
support the goals of nursing now and assume stewardship and
leadership of nursing now as of 2021.

36. • 2. Membership Empowerment -Goal Strengthen National
Nursing Associations (NNAs) across the three pillars of ICN to
enable them to address key challenges at regional and
national levels. Actions 1. Identify and understand the
mandate, capacity and needs of NNs. 2. Expand programmes,
initiatives and products related to the education, practice,
regulation, and socio-economic welfare of nursing in response
to NNA needs. 3. Support NNAs influence policy. 4. Improve
the availability and use of ICN resource documents and tools
on issues important to NNAs.

37. • WHO (World Health Organization)
• Introduction
• The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specifilized agency
of the United Nations responsible for international public
health. The WHO constitution, which establishes the agency‟s
governing structure and principles, states its main objective as
“the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of
health. It is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, with six
semi-autonomous regional offices and 150 field offices
worldwide.

38. • Type : United Nations Specialised agency.
• Legal status : Active.
• Head Quarters : Geneva, Switzerland.
• Head : Tedros Adhanom (Director – General)
• Parent Organization : United Nations Economic and Social
Council
• . Budget : $ 7.96 (billion) (2020 – 2021)
• Website : www.who.int

39. • History
• The International sanitary conferences, originally held on 23
June 1851, were the first predecessors of the WHO
• . The current director – general is Tedros Adhanom, former
health minister and foreign minister of Ethiopia, who began
his five year term on 1 July 2017.
• First conference 23 June 1851.
• Series of 14 conferences 1851-1938.
• 1892 – International Sanitary Convention

40. • Vision
• Better health outcomes depend on better health systems.
• adequate financing with pooling of risk.
• a well-trained and adequately remunerated work force.
• Information on which to base policy and management decisions.
• Functions
• Providing leadership on matters critical to health and engaging in
partnerships where joint action is needed.
• Shaping the research agenda and stimulating the generation,
translation and dissemination of valuable knowledge.
• Setting norms and standards and promoting and monitoring their
implementation.
• Articulating ethical and evidence based policy options.
• Monitoring the Health situation and addressing health trends.

41. • American nurses Association
• Goals
• To establish and maintain a code of ethics, to elevate the
standards of nursing education, to promote the usefulness
and honour, the financial and other interests of Nursing.
Minutes of the Association, February 1897

42. • ANA Goals Today
• 1. Professional Practice and Excellence
• ANA successfully champions professional nursing excellence
through standards, code of ethics and professional
development, such as credentialing and life long learning.

43. • Mission
• „To achieve a healthy world through the power of nursing‟
and this is more relevant today than ever with the future of
health care changing so dramatically, nurses can revolutionize
the approach to care for the better.

44. • Functions of ANA
• Accredits educational programs.
• Provide certification for individual registered nurse.
• Supplies data for research analysis.
• Provide public policy analysis and political education and
maintains government relations and political action activities.
• implements an economic and general welfare program.
• publishers a variety of publications, including the American
Nurses.
• Holds conferences and a biennial convention.

45. • UNO
• Introduction
• The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization that
aims to maintain international peace and security, achieve
international cooperation, and be a center for harmonizing the
actions of nations. It is the largest, most familiar, most
internationally represented and most powerful
intergovernmental organization in the world. The UN is head
quartered on international territory in Newyork City, with its
other main offices in Geneva, Nairobi, Vienna and the Hague.

46. • Millennium Development Goals
• Eradicate Extreme poverty and hunger.
• Achieve universal primary education.
• Promote gender equality and empower women.
• Reduce child mortality.
• Improve Maternal health.
• Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases.
• Ensure environmental sustain ability.
• Develop a global partnership for development.

47. • Programmes
• UNDP - United Nations Development Programme.
• UNICEF - United Nations Children‟s Fund.
• UNHCR - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. WFP -
World Food Programme.
• UNODC - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. UNFPA -
United Nations Population Fund.
• UNCTAD - The United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development.
• UNEP - The United Nations Environment Programme. UNRWA -
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees.
• UN Women.
• UN – Habita

48. • Mission “Promotes the rights and wellbeing of every child, in
everything we do”
• . Vission To create a world where the rights of every child are
realized

49. • History
• 1946 – UNICEF is created. 1953 – logo generatedas „A child
drinking Milk. 1960 – logo changes as „a Mother lifting up a
child‟.
• 1986 – 40th anniversary.
• 2016 – „for every child‟ is adopted as the organization‟s
brand strategy and becomes part of the logo.

50. • Goals
• Provide long term humanitarian and development assistances
to children and mothers in developing countries.

51. • UNICEF in India
• Programmes on Reproductive and child health. Child
development & nutrition. Child environment. Child
protection and education.

52. • Contributions
• BCG Vaccination programme.
• Penicillin plant – Pune.
• Triple Vaccine Plants.
• National Level
• INC TNAI CMAI NL

53. • Indian Nursing Counsil (INC)
• Introduction
• The Indian Nursing Council is an autonomous body under the
Government of India, Ministry of Health and family welfare
was constitute by the Central Government under section 3(1)
of the Indian Nursing Council Act, 1947 of parliament in order
to establish a uniform standard of training for nurses,
Midwives and health visitors.

54. • Recognition of Qualifications
• 1. The qualifications included in part I of the schedule shall be
recognized qualifications, and in Part II of the schedule shall
be recognized higher qualifications.
• 2. The qualifications only when granted after a specified data
by the respective state council, shall be a recognized
qualification
• . 3. The council may enter into negotiations with any authority
to which this act does not extended in India or foreign
country.

55. • Purposes of INC
• Advisory role in the State Nursing Council.
• To set standards and regulate all types of nursing education.
To collaborate with state nursing councils, schools and
colleges of nursing and examination board.
• Functions of Indian Nursing Council The council is responsible
for regulation and maintenance of uniform standard of
training for nurses, Midwives, and Auxillary Nurse-Midwives
and health visitors, various functions are as follows.
• Uniform Standards of Education Indian nursing register Nurses
registration Purposes of INC Registration of foreign nurses

56. • Committees
• INC has constituted following communities.
• Executive committee.
• The nursing education committee.
• Equivalence committee.
• Finance committee.

57. • Activities in INC
• The prime responsibility of INC is to set the norms and
standards for education, training, research and practice within
the relevant legislative framework
• . Activities related to state nursing councils, school of nursing
and examination board.
• Activities related to Government of India.
• Other activities.

58. • Activities related to state nursing councils, school of nursing
and examination board Prescribing of syllabi.
• Implementation of syllabi.
• Inspections of examination centres and school of nursing.
Recognition of qualifications.
• Withdrawal of recognition for defaulting institutions.
• Maintenance of register nurses in India.
• Collection of data from schools of nursing.
• Advises on the matters proposed as when by the state
nursing councils and nursing institutions.

59. • Vision Statement of TNAI
• “To develop nursing as a profession and another need to
provide a form where professional nurses could meet in
counsel and plan to achieve those ends”

60. • Objectives of TNAI
• To promote a sense of spirit de corps among all nurse.
• Upgrading, developing and standardization of nursing
education
• . To uphold in every way the dignity and honor of nursing
profession.
• To enable member to counsel together on matters related to
there profession.
• Improvement of living working condition and educational
condition for nurses.
• Improve economic status of nurses in the country.
• Recommends the State Government to appoint a nurse as a
nursing director.

61. • Aims
• To update and standardization of nursing education.
• To improve living and working conditions for nurses.
• To register the qualified nurses and reciprocity of
registration within different states.

62. • Functions
• To establish standards and qualifications for nursing practice.
To initiate standards of nursing education.
• To establish a code of ethical conduct.

63. • Future Plan of TNAI
• Furthering service education programme.
• Furthering continuous nursing education programme.
Centre to care for senior citizens.
• Role in community development programme.
• Adoption of village of health centres.

64. • CMAI (Christian Medical Association of India)
• Introduction
• The Christian Medical Association of India (CMAI) is a Forum, a
gathering place, an association and an instrument for social
reform. It is a fellowship of doctors, nurses, administrators,
chaplains and allied health professionals who assist India‟s
poorest and most deprived sections of society. CMAI believes
that the Biblical faith calls and commands it to proclaim the
Gospel and to heal the sick, the suffering and the down
trodden.

65. • CMAI and Skill Enhancement
• CMAI offers formal courses through two Nursing boards
recognized by an Act of parliament. CMAI rolls out Allied
health courses through the Central Education Board, Certified
by CMAI only. CMAI is a training partner of Health sector skills
council of Government of India.

66. • Coordination with INC
• Time to time INC meetings of state registrars to discuss
various problems.
• SNRC must implement syllabus prescribed by INC.
• INC is composed of representation of many sections
including State Nursing Registration Council (SNRC).
• To be affiliated to INC, SNRC must register person

67. • Tamil Nadu Nurses and Midwives Council, Chennai (Tamil
Nadu
• The Tamil Nadu Nurses and Midwives Council is the premier
Nursing Council in the whole of South-East Asia established in
1926.

68. • Members present in 2007 1. Mrs. G. Josephine R Little Flower
Registrar, TNNMC, Chennai. 2. Mrs. Lalitha Varghese, Secretary
(CMAI) Bangalore. 3. Mrs. Saraswathi, Principal, Son,
Government Stanley Hospital, Chenn4. Mrs. Kolusam Beevi,
Principal, Son, Kilpauk Medical College Hospital, Chennai. 5.
Mrs. Rajathi Durairaj, Nursing Tutor, Grade – I, ICH Chennai. 6.
Mrs. R. Amirthavalli, Vice Principal, Son, Govt. G.H., Chennaiai

69. • Functions of the Council As per the act
• This council is an Autonomous Statutory Registration body for
registering qualified Nurses, Midwives, Auxillary – Nurse –
Midwives / Multipurpose Health workers / Health visitors as
per the provisions of the Act. It extends its registration to
Union Territories i.e. Pondcherry and Andaman and Nicobar
Islands.

70. • Student Nurses Association of India
• Introduction
• The student Nurses Association (SNA) is the organization of
student nurses in India, which was established in 1929 at the
time of the Annual Conference of the Trained Nurses‟
Association of India (TNAI). The nursing superintendent of the
Government General Hospital, Madras, Miss.LN. Jeans, was
the first Honorary organizing secretary of this Association.

71. • Objectives
• To help the students to uphold the dignity and ideals of
nursing profession for which they are qualifying.
• To promote a co-operative spirit among students.

72. • SNA General body
• The SNA General body at the national level shall comprise of:
1. Members of SNA General Committee.
• 2. Three representatives from each unit via, SNA Vice
President SNA Secretary SNA advisor.
• 3. All SNA delegates attending the conference.

73. • Committees of SNA 1. Hostel Committee. 2. Mess Committee.
3. Counseling Committee. 4. Health Committee. 5. Culture
Committee. 6. Recreation and Sport Committee. 7. Gardening
Committee.

74. • 2. Universities (Academic Council, Syndicate)
• Introduction
• The Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University (TNMGRMU) is
a government Medical University centered in Chennai, Tamil
Nadu, India. It is named after the former Chief Minister of
Tamil Nadu, Dr.M.G. Ramachandran (M.G.R) and is the second
largest health sciences university in India.

75. • About the Emblem
• The university symbolizes various systems of medicine viz.,
Medical, Dental, Indian Medicine / Homeopathy & Allied
Health Sciences. It also depicts the global character of
preventive, promotive and curative Medicine. The motto
“Health for all” reflects the objective of the Medical University

76. • Objectives
• To institute degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions.
• To institute lectureships, readerships, professorships and other
teaching posts required by the university and to appoint persons to
such lectureships, readerships, professorships and other teaching
posts.
• To institute and award fellowships, scholarships, studentships,
exhibitions, Medals and prizes in accordance with the status.
• To institute research posts and to appoint persons in such posts.
To organize advanced studies and research programs from time to
time.
• To develop research facilities and to provide for research and for the
advancement and dissemination of knowledge in the field of
Medical sciences.
• To provide for continuing Medical education. To establish,
maintain and manage institutions of research, university colleges,
departments and laboratories. To encourage co-operation among

77. • Philosophy and Aims of the College
• The management and faculty of the college aim to provide quality
nursing education, to prepare graduate nurses, who will have
appropriate attitude, adequate knowledge, skill and commitment to
serve the community. We believe that human beings are created by
God, Individual function as holistic which comprising of physical,
psychological, social and spiritual aspects constantly interacting with
each other and with the environment. Hence it is expected that any
individual student or patient must be viewed in wholeness. Nursing
education of this college is organized with this perspective mind.
Educational of the total person is influenced by the physical and
psychological climate of learning. Hence the college endeavors to
create an environment, conductive to learning, growth and
development of students, in addition to classroom teaching and
clinical instructors. Jesus gave them power against unclean spirits to
cast them out and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of
Disease Matthew. 10:1.