Kolkata Nurse’s Silent Transformational Campaign: How Doli Biswas is Changing Emergency Care In India

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Kolkata-based senior nursing professional, Doli Biswas, who has gained experience from nearly three decades of her life, is now recognized as the role model for strength and creativity among the bright emergency healthcare professionals in India. If it hadn’t been for the many awards and recognitions from fans and friends, we would have only known a bit of her not-in-the-spotlight emergency preparedness work both inside and outside critical zones of the hospital.

Due to the limited medical facilities and prolonged emergency response in India, the country is currently facing its worse healthcare crises. Biswas, in the meantime, is on a mission to develop fast, nurse-driven, and life-saving systems. She is not only focusing on that but also on the implementation of these systems at a time when it is most needed, and only in the space of seconds – whether it be in the ICU, out at 30,000 feet or in a midnight corridor with a group of nurses that is on call.

Emergency Simulations Made By Nurses For Nurses

One of the initiatives that Biswas is currently promoting, yet has not gained much popularity about, is the introduction of micro-simulation emergency drills in various private and charitable health units. These drills are tailor-made for the nurses and are simulations of confusing emergency situations such as cardiac arrests happening during a power cut, multi-patient triage, and pandemics where respiratory distress is the most common ailment.

She is reportedly saying that the nurse’s role is normally hidden in the emergencies. The first responder is always a nurse who gives the life-saving interventions and continues the patient’s condition to the physician, and she also feels, “The nurse’s decision within the first two minutes can determine the whole future of the patient. However, they are in need of a type of training that would allow them to experience the real pressure during emergencies,” she said at an internal leadership meeting.

By her guidance, nursing interns now are getting the chance to work through emergency scenarios within their rotation. They never used this approach before so many people are excited about it as being groundbreaking.

Mentorship Iind Beyond The Book Approach

Using simulations and the most difficult cases, Biswas does the job of forming the next forthcoming folks of hospital workers to be being the real and actual caregivers in a way that she calls “empathy mentorship”. The mentors learn to be both-educative-character and clinical by her model.

She allows young nurses to express their worries, admit mistakes, and brainstorm the best responses to tragic situations through the workshops that she conducts every three months without judgemental attitudes. To this end, there has been evidence that there is a lesser percentage of junior nurses who experience burnout, helping the level of patient interaction.

Setting up the Initial Network for First Nurse

Much of Biswas’s focus is on creating a panel of the first nurse medical emergency response system in India to aid airlines working in conjunction with major carriers. This is a new idea, but it is not too far fetched the way it works—i.e. passengers who are the nurses by profession could visit a website and get on a verified emergency list. This membership option would entitle them to be called via an in-flight alert system if their services were needed.

Being the one who all of the sudden happened to experience the situation of a mid-air emergency health crisis and thus be able to take quick action to stabilize a passenger, who was having a heart attack, was a personal encounter with this problem therefore she can illustrate new methods. Her idea comprises nursing supplies kept for emergencies and emergency rooms getting in touch with the nurses through direct talk at most before they land, a measure that might make a difference in the care given to patients with medical issues.

Redefining the Attributes of a Nurse in Modern India

Spotlight hunting is not Doli Biswas’ kind of thing. She is chasing systems that work even during times of silence. By defining nursing leadership as not a position but a dynamic responsibility, she has changed the whole concept. Her influence is gently extending to those areas where a disaster does not give any warning.

That is possibly her major quality: she, in a nation that is new to seeing the full extent of nursing’s greatness, continues a legacy without depending on applause or being in the news.

Doli Biswas and those like her are the professionals who help the healthcare sector in India adapt to the new situation post the pandemic. They make sure that readiness, empathy, and strength are the new norm for nurses, and thus, they become their everyday practice— not just for the crises but every day.