Dr. Anice George, is an Indian

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and an academician who was former

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of Manipal College of Nursing, Manipal, and currently adjunct

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of child health nursing. She is also the academic advisor of

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, at

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, (MAHE) Manipal, India (formerly known as Manipal University). She is a nurse educator, administrator,

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and a registered nurse who values caring as a fundamental core of the nursing profession.

Education

Dr. Anice George completed

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from the College of Nursing, CMC Vellore in 1983 and

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from the same school in 1987, then a Master of Philosophy in Nursing from

Rajkumari Amrit Kaur College of Nursing Rajkumari Amrit Kaur College of Nursing is a public funded institute administratively governed by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. It is a constituent college of University of Delhi. The college ranked second in In ...

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in 1993 and

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in Nursing from MAHE Manipal in 1998. She was the first Nursing professional to complete her PhD from MAHE, Manipal.

Professional life

She joined the manipal group in 1991, initially as

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of the

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and served as Dean for more than a decade and currently as adjunct faculty of the Manipal College of Nursing, MAHE, which, under her stewardship has grown to be recognised as 3rd among the top Nursing Colleges in

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. Formerly she served as the Assistant Dean for Preclinical Affairs at College of Nursing,

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and as Assistant Deputy Director for

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a
King Khalid University Hospital
Kingdom of

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. As Dean o
Manipal College of Nursing
during her tenure spanning over a decade, Dr. Anice George has immensely contributed to the growth of the college in the academic field making MCON Manipal, one of the most respected and topest Nursing Institutions for education and research in the country. During her leadership, the college has grown stronger in all areas, particularly research. Being a Nurse Educator, she uses her experience, knowledge and skills, towards preparing

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professionals who make a difference in the lives of people they serve.

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s through regular professional development programs is a key goal for Dr. Anice. She mentors, supports and encourages

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professionals as they journey from being a novice to becoming an expert. In 1996, along with her mentor Prof. (Dr.) Aparna Bhaduri, she initiated the MPhil Nursing program, makin
MCON
Manipal, the first institution to start this course in private sector. Dr George served as a member of Board of Studies at

Manipal University Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) is a private deemed university located in Manipal, India. The university also has campuses in Mangalore, Bangalore and Jamshedpur in India , and global campus in Dubai and Malacca (Malaysia). As of ...

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NITTE University Nitte is a village in Karkala taluk of Udupi district, in the Indian state of Karnataka. The village is on the way from Padubidri to Karkala. It is 8 km away from Karkala, 26 km from Udupi and 54 km from Mangalore. It is located ...

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, and

Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS), centered in Bengaluru, India, is a public, affiliating university set up in 1996 by the government of Karnataka, India, for the regulation and promotion of higher education in health sciences ...

(RGUHS). With an aim to develop new relationships and collaborations with institutions and universities abroad, Memorandum of Understandings (MOU) were established between

Manipal Manipal is a suburb and university town within Udupi, in coastal Karnataka, India. Manipal is located five kilometres away from the centre of Udupi City, in Udupi District, Karnataka (state) in south western India. It is administered by the Udup ...

College of Nursing Manipal and other institutions in the

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, and

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Research

She has published more than 116

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articles in various international and national journals and has been cited more than 470 times, giving her an

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of 12 as per

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. She serves on the editorial boards or as a reviewer at four peer-reviewed journals. She is the founding executive editor for th
Manipal Journal of Nursing and Health Sciences
. She was formerly the

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for

BMC Nursing ''BMC Nursing'' is an open access peer-reviewed nursing journal published by BioMed Central covering all aspects of nursing research, training, education, and practice. Publishers of Nursing journals have traditionally been slow to move to onl ...

. Her doctoral research has given new insights into role of

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in managing dysmenorrhea and its associated symptoms among adolescent girls. Her other areas of research interests include

Evidence-based nursing Evidence-based nursing (EBN) is an approach to making quality decisions and providing nursing care based upon personal clinical expertise in combination with the most current, relevant research available on the topic. This approach is using evid ...

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, and Pediatric Nursing. She is an approved

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Guide at Manipal University and has guided more than six doctoral scholars. Dr George was invited as an expert member in the Ph.D. committees of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences (NIMHANS) Bangalore and

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, Thrissur.

Collaborative projects

Dr George is the principal investigator for a capacity building program for Nurse Educators on Geriatric Health Care and Research, funded by the

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(ICMR) and Department of Health Research (DHR). In 2013, an endowed chair on Participatory Action Research was established at

in collaboration with Prof Basanti Majumdar from

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. The core areas of research under this project were

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, Migrant Health, and

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.The project endeavored to empower nursing faculty with skills in participatory action research, in order to improve health and health care for individuals,

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, communities, and

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. Dr George was one of the principal coordinators for the HIV/AIDS and ART training program for staff nurses,a collaborative project funded by the

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(INC) and the

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(GFATM) from 2008 to 2013. The objective of the program was to strengthen human and institutional capacities of the national health system to enable accelerated growth of the National AIDS Control Programme. Manipal College of Nursing has bagged the first place in the implementation of this project for the year 2011 at national level. During 2004-2005 she served as the

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counterpart from

for the

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(CIDA) funded collaborative research with

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on " Empowering village women - focus group on HIV & AIDS prevention".

Publications

Some publications of Dr. George are * George, A., Bhaduri, A., Sen, S., & Choudhry, V. P. (1997)
Physical growth parameters in thalassemic children
Indian journal of pediatrics, 64(6), 861–871. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02725513 * George, A., Roach, E. J., & Andrade, M. (2011)
Nursing education: opportunities and challenges
The Nursing journal of India, 102(6), 136–139. * Renjith, V., Pai, M. S., Castelino, F., George, A., & Pai, A. (2016)
Engel's Model as a Conceptual Framework in Nursing Research: Well-being and Disability of Patients With Migraine
Holistic nursing practice, 30(2), 96–101. https://doi.org/10.1097/HNP.0000000000000136 * Kumar, S., Adiga, K. R., & George, A. (2014)
Impact of Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) on Depression among Elderly Residing in Residential Homes
The Nursing journal of India, 105(6), 248–251. Dr Anice George has authored a boo
Yoga Therapy for Dysmenorrhea
which was published on 14 September 2016.

References

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