Media Release

Mangalore, Dec 13: Father Muller College of Nursing, Father Muller Charitable Institutions, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Haute Ecole de la Santé La Source Lausanne, Switzerland, the health campus of University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland.

 Sr Winnifred D’Souza, principal and Prof Agnes E J of Father Muller College of Nursing, visited School of Nursing Sciences La Source  Lausanne, Health Campus of University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland to sign the  MOU between the two institutions.

Sr Winnifred  D’Souza and  Agnes E J gave lectures at a public conference held in School of Nursing Sciences La Source on the topics “Nursing Curriculum in India” and “Burden, coping and expressed emotion of caregivers of patients with schizophrenia” respectively.

The  MOU was signed by Fr  Patrick Rodrigues, director of Father Muller Charitable Institutions; Sr Winnifred D’Souza, principal, Father Muller College of Nursing; Chantal Ostorero, director general and Maxline Stettler, director of International Affairs ,Board of Higher Education, State of Vaud; and Jacques Chapuis, director,  SNS La Source, Lausanne.

The potential areas of agreement between the institutions include development of joint research projects, exchange of teaching and research personnel and other activities of mutual interest regarding academic, scientific or technological research matters. During the visit a joint research protocol was prepared on “Illness representations and coping styles of caregivers of patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders in India and Switzerland”. The study will be conducted in the year 2013.

Jerome Favrod and Shyhrete Rexhaj Hasani, professors and clinical nurse specialists, School of Nursing Sciences La Source, Lausanne had visited Father Muller College of Nursing from August 14 to August 24 this year with the purpose of having research collaboration between both the institutions.