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Omayal Achi College of Nursing was established in the year 1992 with the motto ‘Love to Serve’. The vision of the institution was to prepare student nurses at the undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral level to provide quality focused, compassionate and evidenced informed nursing care services and to function in various capacities in the health care delivery system. Preparing nurses with the same vision requires capacity building in research among our students. Hence to explore, dream and discover, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed with the University of Saskatchewan, Canada and we got an opportunity to work with two very dynamic individuals from the university – Dr.David Popkin, the Dean and Dr.Vivian Ramsden. This association that developed into an intimate friendship helped us to make our dream come true. We started taking up collaborative Research projects, our faculty started presenting papers at international conferences and as years rolled by a firm relationship developed, which culminated in the signing of an MOU with the Research Department, University of Saskatchewan to institute the International Centre for Collaborative Research - ICCR for facilitating the research activities at Omayal Achi College of Nursing, by enhancing the research productivity and increasing the intensity of the research environment through collaboration with local, national and international research groups. In continuation to the signing of MOU, the first few months were spent in correspondence, formation of committees - Ethics committee, Governing committee, Research review committee etc. and the new centre started functioning in early 2009. During the first three years of our operations, we facilitated several research projects by researchers and Institutions from India and abroad - Asthma Foundation of India, University of Saskatchewan, Canada, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, The T.N.Dr. M.G.R. Medical University, Chennai and Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, Scotland, Singhvi Health Care Trust and AASAI foundation. The ICCR facilitates all the Research projects of the B.Sc. (N), MSc (N) students and PhD scholars of our college, every year. With growing research evidences in the nursing arena the ICCR wanted to provide a platform to communicate/ disseminate these evidences, hence the executive committee members have come up with the idea of instituting the Online Open Access Indexed Journal “ICCR–JNR (Journal of Nursing Research)” from January 2016. The Journal intends to publish quality research evidences for transforming nursing care services. The editorial for this journal comprises of national and international advisors and peer reviewers across the globe for all specialities in nursing. |
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