Course Description:
Nursing is a
healthcare profession focussed on the care of individuals, families, and
communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality
of life from conception to death. The purposes for which the nursing have come
up are as follows: Giving care to the sick and injured, prevention of diseases
and to educate patients and their relatives regarding health care, promotion of
health, carry out teaching programmers for doctors, nurses, technicians and therapists,
to undertake research work, and to educate patients, their relatives and
community as a whole regarding health.
Nursing
training programs in india are:
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Name of the course
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Course duration
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Eligibility criteria
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Vocational nursing
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Must have cleared 10
th or +2
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B.Sc Nursing
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3 – 4 years
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Must have cleared +2
examinations with Chemistry, Physics and Biology as compulsory subjects
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Auxiliary Nurse
Midwife/ Health Worker (ANM)
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18 months
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Must have cleared 10
th standard
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General Nursing and
Midwifery
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3 ½ years
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Must have cleared +2
examinations with Chemistry, Physics and Biology as compulsory subjects
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M.Sc Nursing
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2 years
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Must have cleared B.Sc
Nursing
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Career opportunities: opportunities for a nurse to develop her own career have greatly changed during the past fifty years. More variety of opportunities has cropped up during these years because of the progress made in the field of medicine and surgery. Career opportunities are more varied now:
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Hospital
nursing service- the functions of the professional nurse in hospital are
usually broader than any other kind of nursing. Hospital is not only a place
for the acutely ill but also a health centre which offers comprehensive health
services to the patient, his family land community.
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A
nurse may take up a position in a college of nursing after acquiring a degree
or post graduate qualification. She may take up teaching work in nursing
school. Cadres available in these teaching institutions are as follows:
In school of nursing
1.
Sister
tutor
2.
Clinical
instructor or clinical supervisor
3.
Principal
tutor or nursing officer
4.
Public
health nurse or community health nursse
In college of nursing
1.
Junior
lecturer with post graduate degree B.Sc(N) or M.Sc(N) qualification.
2.
Senior
lecturer – expereience of two years as junior lecturer.
3.
Rreader
with two year experience as senior lecturer.
4.
Associate
professor – with one year experience as Reader.
5.
Professor
– with three tears experience as associate professor.
6.
Nursing
superintendent or Principal.
7.
Superintendent
of nursing services of assistant director (Nursing)
8.
Assistant
director of community health nursing.
The nurse
should choose a hospitol for employment according to the interests she has, and
the kind of work she wishes to do. The experience in a general hospital is
broader than in one that offers more specialied service.
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