COUNCIL
Vice president
secretary
Assistant secretary
Office staff
Committees
• Executive Committee of the Council to deliberate on the
issues related to maintenance of standards of nursing
programs
• The Nursing Education Committee, The committee is
constituted to deliberate on the issues concerned mainly
with nursing education and policy matters concerning the
nursing education.
• Equivalence Committee – to deliberate on the issues of
recognition of foreign qualifications which is essential for
the purpose of registration under section 11(2)(a) or (b) of
the Indian Nursing Council Act, 1947, as amended
• Guidelines to start nursing
program
competencies
On completion of the course, the ANM/FHW will be able to:
• Appreciate the concept of holistic health and understand the influence of
socioeconomic and environmental factors on the health status of the community.
• Identify health problems/needs and resources in the community and mobilize
social support for active participation of the community in health care
activities.
• Provide preventive, promotive, restorative and emergency health care to
individuals and community as required.
• Provide treatment of minor ailments.
• Provide skilled midwifery services to all mothers in the community and refer
mothers at risk to hospitals.
• Provide skilled care to all neonates in community and refer neonates at risk to the
appropriate levels.
• Render skilled child care services at home, clinic and school.
Competencies contd..
• Guide/Train birth attendants, Anganwadi workers (AWW)s, other
community health activists and volunteers.
• Provide need-based information and counselling related to health of
individuals, family and groups.
• Participate in all the National health and Family welfare programmes
at community level.
• Act as a team member in the health care delivery system.
• Coordinate and collaborate with the other health team members and
community based organizations, non-govt. organizations (NGO) and
village administration.
• Manage the health centre including equipments and supplies, and
maintain the records in order to provide quality based people friendly
services.
• Updates knowledge and skills for professional and personal growth.
A N M MINIMUM STANDARD
REQUIREMENTS
• A school for training of the ANMS should be located in
a community Health Centre having minimum bed strength of 30 and
maximum 50 and serving an area with community health programmes.
• Institution will admit the students only after taking approval of State Nursing Council
and Examination Board.
• The Indian Nursing Council will conduct inspection every year till the first batch
completes the programme. Permission will be given year by year till the first batch
completes.
competencies
The nurse on completion of this course will be able to:
• Demonstrate competency in providing health care to individual, sick or well,
using nursing process.
• Assess the nursing need of clients from birth to death.
• Plan and carry out appropriate action to meet nursing needs.
• Provide effective nursing care for maintaining best possible level of health
in all aspects.
• Promote self care in people under their care.
• Apply problem solving techniques in nursing practice.
• Evaluate effectiveness of nursing care
• Apply knowledge from the humanities, biological and behavioral sciences
in functioning as a nurse.
• Function effectively with members of the health team and
community applying the knowledge of human relations and
communication skills in her work.
• Participate as member of the health team in delivery of curative
preventive, promotive and rehabilitative health care service.
• Mobilize community resources and their involvement in
working with the communities.
• Demonstrate use of ethical values in their personal and
professional life.
• Demonstrate interest in activities of professional
organization.
• Recognize the need for continuing education for
professional development.
• Demonstrate basic skills in teaching patients and giving
nursing care to them.
• Demonstrate basic skills in administration and
leadership while working with other members of health
team and community.
• Assist in research activities.
B.Sc. COURSE
• Any organization under the Central Government, State Government, Local body or a
Private or Public Trust, Mission, Voluntary registered under Society Registration Act
wishes to open a School/College of Nursing, should obtain the No
Objection/Essentiality certificate from the State government.
• The Indian Nursing council on receipt of the proposal from the Institution to start
nursing College, will undertake the first inspection to assess suitability with regard to
physical infrastructure, clinical facility and teaching faculty in order to give permission
to start the programme.
• After the receipt of the permission to start the nursing programme from Indian
Nursing Council, the institution shall obtain the approval from the State Nursing
Council and University.
• Institution will admit the students only after taking approval of State Nursing Council
and University.
• The Indian Nursing Council will conduct inspection every year till the first batch
completes the programme. Permission will be given year by year till the first batch
completes.
Competencies
On completion of the four year B.Sc. Nursing program the graduate will
be able to:
• Office room1
• Class-room2
• Nursing laboratory1
• Nutrition laboratory1
• Library1
• Audio visual aid1
• Clinical Facilities
School has to be affiliated to district
hospital or a secondary care hospital with
minimum 150 beds.
• Bed occupancy on the average to be
between 60% -70%.
Teaching facility –
category Minimum qualification and experience
• Medical 30
Surgical 30
Obst. & Gynaecology 30
Pediatrics 20
Ortho 10
• Bed Occupancy of the Hospital should be minimum 75%.
• The size of the Hospital/Nursing Home for affiliation
should not be less than 50 beds.
Clinical Facilities
contd..
• Other Specialities/Facilities for clinical experience
required are as follows:
• Major OT
• Minor OT
• Dental
• Eye/ENT
• Burns and Plastic
• Neonatology with Nursery
• Communicable disease
• Community Health Nursing
• Cardiology
• Oncology
• Neurology/Neuro-surgery
• Nephrology etc.
• ICU/ICCU
• Affiliation of psychiatric hospital should be of
minimum 30-50 beds.
• The Nursing Staffing norms in the affiliated
Hospital should be as per the INC norms.
• The affiliated Hospital should give student status
to the candidates of the nursing programme.
• Affiliated hospitals should be in the radius of 15-
30 kms.
• 1:3 student patient ratio to be maintained.
• If the institution is having both
GNM and B.Sc(N) programme, it
would require 240 bedded
parent/affiliated hospital for 40
annual intake in each
programme to maintain 1:3
student patient ratio.
Teaching facility - Qualification of
Teaching Staff:
principal M.Sc with 3 years or B.Sc /post basic
with 5yaers of teaching expeience
faculty
Number
1
principal
Vice principal 1
tutor 4
Additional tutor 1
total 7
B.Sc.
• Physical Facilities
M.Sc. (N)
If parent hospital is super-specialty
hospital like cardio-thoracic
hospital/cancer with annual intake
10 M.Sc(N) in cardio thoracic/cancer
• Professor cum coordinator 1
• Reader / Associate Professor 1
• Lecturer 2
• The above faculty shall perform dual
role.
M.SC nursing
• Annual intake of 60 students in B.Sc.(N) and 25 students for M.Sc.(N)
programme.
• Professor-cum-Principal - 1
• Professor-cum-Vice Principal - 1
• Reader / Associate Professor - 5
• Lecturer - 8
• Tutor / Clinical Instructor - 19
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Total - 34
• One in each specialty and all the M.Sc(N) qualified teaching faculty
will participate in all collegiate programmes.
• Teacher Student Ratio = 1 : 10 for M.Sc.(N) programme.
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE OF
TEACHERS OF COLLEGE OF NURSING
Note
• No part time nursing faculty will be counted for calculating total no. of
faculty required for a college.
• Irrespective of number of admissions, all faculty positions (Professor
to Lecturer) must be filled.
• For M.Sc.(N) programme appropriate number of M.Sc. faculty in
each speciality be appointed subject to the condition that total number
• All nursing teachers must possess a basic university or equivalent
qualification as laid down in the schedules of the Indian Nursing
Council Act, 1947. They shall be registered under the State Nursing
Registration Act.
• Nursing faculty in nursing college except tutor/clinical
instructors must possess the requisite recognized
postgraduate qualification in nursing subjects.
• Philosophy