Mangalore :  Fr Muller College of Nursing in Mangalore has signed a memorandum of understanding with Haute Ecole de la Santé La Source Lausanne, Switzerland, the health campus of University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland recently.

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.

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

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