GENERAL NURSING & MIDWIFERY (GNM)
Courses Information
Course Name Basic B.Sc. Nursing
Duration 4 years
Eligibility 10+2 (12th) PCBE with min. 50% marks
About the Course
Embarking upon the B.Sc Nursing program marks your inaugural stride into the realm of nursing as a vocation. This path unfurls avenues for future professional advancement on local, regional, national, and even international scales.
Within this domain, nurses engage with individuals across the age spectrum, grappling with a myriad of health afflictions, be they enduring or ephemeral, in hospital wards as well as within the broader community.
Central to their mandate is the advocacy of health literacy, the prophylaxis of ailments, and the holistic care, sustenance, and rehabilitation of patients undergoing diverse diagnostic and therapeutic regimens.
In the hospital milieu, nursing incumbents find themselves entrenched within surgical, medical, and intensive care realms, while their counterparts traverse a diverse array of community landscapes.
Community nursing specialists extend top-tier professional care to a plethora of domiciliary patients. Within the purview of general practice, practice nurses seamlessly integrate into the multidisciplinary fabric of local medical practices.
Moreover, nurses also permeate the industrial and commercial sectors, proffering health surveillance and bolstering workforce vitality.
Fundamentally, we espouse the tenet that each individual merits superlative nursing care that not only fosters health but also proffers succor during periods of health exigency.
Our nursing degree program endeavors to kindle and nurture your innate strengths and aspirations, culminating in the emergence of a registered nurse equipped to administer and orchestrate evidence-based care.
This entails seamless collaboration within interdisciplinary health and social cohorts, spanning voluntary bodies, community entities, statutory frameworks, clientele, caregivers, and other stakeholders, while also adeptly navigating the dynamic healthcare landscape.
The contours of our nursing curriculum impel you to immerse yourself within interdisciplinary milieus, honing the requisite proficiencies and erudition indispensable for the delivery of superlative nursing care.
Concomitantly, you shall undertake and surmount a gamut of theoretical evaluations, thereby consolidating your theoretical acumen into practical prowess.
Career Prospects and Job Opportunities
In the hospital, being a nurse will required you to work in
- Surgical Departments.
- Operating Departments.
- Medical Departments.
- The Intensive or High Dependency Care Areas.
- Teaching/Tutor.
Curriculum
The course GNM broadly lays emphasis on the following key areas:
- Anatomy and physiology
- Microbiology
- Psychology
- Sociology
- Nursing Foundation
- First Aid
- Personal hygiene
- Community Health Nursing – I
- Environmental Hygiene
- Health Education & Communication Skills
- Nutrition
- English
- Medical Surgical Nursing – I
- Medical Surgical Nursing – II
- Psychiatric Nursing
- Computer in Nursing
- Obs. & Gynaecological Nursing
- Community Health Nursing – II
- Paediatric Nursing
Career Prospects
B.Sc. Nursing Graduate Nurses are required across Hospitals, Nursing homes, Multi-specialist clinics and hospitals etc.
Other work arrangements are as private duty nurses, as resident nurses for private patients in nursing homes, extended
health care facilities, daycare centres, public health agencies or in hospitals.
Specialist nurses working in hospitals which render specialist medical services
Nursing Aides / attendants work in hospitals, nursing homes and extended care facilities
Work in emergency care