Annu Kaushik

Dr. Annu Kaushik is currently the Director – Nursing at Cloudnine Group of Hospitals. At Cloudnine, Dr. Annu is responsible for managing patient care nursing services across the continuum of critical care, supervising and reviewing nursing staff and bestowed with ultimate responsibility in developing, implementing, and enforcing effective protocols for preventing medical errors and mentoring of patient care managers in leadership skills. Her overall efforts are directed to establishing a best practice organizational culture for her nursing staff. She also works collaboratively with the Nursing department, enhancing and refining nursing documentation to emulate best practices approach, streamlining the working standards operating system for enhanced operational effectiveness. With more than 22 years of rich experience in strategic planning, operations, training and team management, Dr.Annu has also been a technical advisor on many prestigious universities, journals and training institutions. In the past she has designed, developed and customised several training programmes/curriculums for trainees identifying training needs across levels through mapping of skills required for different roles and analysis of existing level of competencies.

Dr.Annu began her career in Nursing with a B.Sc. (Hons) Nursing from Ahilya Bai College of Nursing, Delhi University followed by a Master’s degree course from Rajkumari Amrit Kaur College of Nursing, Delhi University. With a passion for continuing her education, she also pursed a diploma in quality management and hospital accreditation from Academy of Hospital Administration along with a Ph.D. Nursing in 2016 from Maharishi Markandeshwar University. She is also the recipient of NABH Nursing Excellence Certification and along with a certificate in Nursing and Nutrition from John Hopkins.

On the professional front, Dr.Annu has been the National External Assessor for National Quality Assurance Standards (NQAS) and NABH Nursing Excellence Certification. She has also been the research board member for Teerthankar Mahaveer University and presented many papers on occupational safety for nurses. Prior to joining Cloudnine, Dr .Annu was associated with Columbia Asia Hospitals, India as General Manager- Nursing Quality and Training. She also previously served as Head of Education Programmes and Ethics Counsellor at Fortis Healthcare. She has also worked with Holy Family Hospital as Staff nurse in LDR & Postnatal Wards, Max Healthcare as Nurse Educator, Maulana Azad Medical College as a Public Health Nurse.