Professional nursing practice at Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centres (SKMCH&RC) in Lahore and Peshawar is promoted through membership of the Pakistan Cancer Nursing Forum affiliated with the International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care and through membership of the Asia Pacific Hospice Network.
Nursing at SKMCH&RC offers much more than the traditional image of nursing. Nurses provide care to patients receiving complex treatment for their disease. In addition to educating patients and their families about their disease and its treatment, nurses also provide psychological support.
Our nurses play a major role in patient and family education. Patients are advised on what to expect during their stay in the hospital and after they are discharged. It also includes teaching them about various aspects of patient care including prescribed drugs and the side effects of those drugs, blood transfusions, how to look for signs of infection and bleeding, and dietary changes. Nursing Documentation facilitates care coordination for patients in a multidisciplinary team.
SKMCH&RC, Lahore and Peshawar are accredited by the Joint Commission International and the Nursing Division is also certified by ISO Quality Management. Nursing workforce is continually striving to be in compliance with the regulatory requirements and standards of accrediting bodies in order to provide best possible treatment to patients.
Nursing Division imparts its responsibilities in nearly all areas of the hospital.
All nurses must complete Induction and Orientation Programme, which equips them with the necessary skills to achieve a smooth start in their role in unique cancer care nursing practice. This programme is comprises of a series of workshops designed to enhance their practice, including:
Nursing Division at SKMCH&RC, in accordance with the mission statement of the hospital and to fulfil the commitment towards professional growth and development of its nurses offers opportunities for their continuous education. Currently, three post-basic Diploma Programmes are offered according to the work experience and career interests of the staff.
In the year 2020, we introduced a Post RN BS Oncology Nursing Degree Programme, which aims to develop nursing leadership skills in Oncological Nursing and its related specialities. This programme is affiliated with the University of Health Sciences.
All three post-basic diploma programmes and the degree programmes are approved by Pakistan Nursing Council.
Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centres
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
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Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to