mangalore with nursing profession becoming more dynamic and its parameters changing constantly education is being provided to prepare nurses to face the challenges posed by those changes said rosaline jayakaran dean college of nursing christian medical college and hospital vellore at manipal on saturday she was addressing the students at the annual day of manipal college of nursing mcon manipal nurses have key roles to play as team members in the healthcare system today as nurses we have been given a special privilege and a precious opportunity to serve mankind through our noble profession nursing professionals are in great demand in the country and the world over the reputation of a hospital depends very much on the quality of nursing care she said when a patient leaves the hospital and goes home they talk about the nursing care in the hospital that is because nurses are the only ones who are there with the patients all the time we as nurses have to contribute a lot towards this the quality of care in a hospital is what the nurses provide she added dr anice george dean manipal college of nursing manipal presented the annual report which highlighted the achievements awards projects and finest growth of the college in the field of research and education over the last one year she also mentioned the future plans of the college which includes silver jubilee celebration and international conference on evidence informed practice in january 2015 on the occasion dr p l n rao registrar evaluation manipal university unveiled the silver jubilee logo of mcon manipal the awardees were felicitated by dr g k prabhu registrar of manipal university manipal meritorious students of bsc nursing post basic bsc nursing post basic diploma nursing msc nursing and mphil nursing were awarded mareena mathew the best outgoing student of bsc nursing bagged a number of awards and proficiency certificates the contribution of faculty for teaching and research were recognized through good teacher award most accomplished faculty of the year award and publication awards