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Development of nursing education in india
This document discusses the development of nursing education in India from its beginnings in the late 19th century to modern university programs. It describes how nursing education started with 6-month midwifery training programs and evolved to include general nursing education. It then summarizes the introduction and growth of auxiliary nurse midwife programs, basic BSc nursing degrees, post-basic nursing programs, MSc nursing programs, MPhil programs, and PhD programs in nursing education across India starting in the 1940s.
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- 1. Development of nursing educationin India PREPARED BY: USHA RANI KANDULA, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF ADULT HEALTH NURSING, ARSI UNIVERSITY,ASELLA,ETHIOPIA, SOUTH EAST AFRICA.
- 2. INTRODUCTION Nursing education beganwith a short period of training of midwives for 6 months. With close supervision of their practical experience.
- 3. And a certificatewas given to them after training. In 1871, this system of training was changed and included into general nursing for a period of three years.
- 4. And midwifery forperiod of 9 months. The present nursing program includes midwifery, community health nursing, & general nursing.
- 5. The Auxiliary NurseMidwife/ General Nurse Midwife Programmed
- 6. The Indian NursingCouncil at its meeting in 1950 came out with some important decisions relating to future patterns of Nursing Training in India.
- 7. One of theimportant decision was that there should be two standards of training of Nursing and Midwifery:
- 8. A full courseof 3 yrs in Nursing and minimum of 6 months of Midwifery.
- 9. A course ofAuxiliary Nurse Midwives of 2 yrs which would replace various courses for Junior Grade Certificate.
- 10. The first courseof A.N.M was started at St.Mary‘s Hospital Taran Taran, Punjab in 1951.
- 11. Initially a veryfew training centers undertook to give this course but the financial aid was given by Govt.
- 12. Of India underthe scheme for preparing personnel for Primary Health Centers gave a great impetus to the training program.
- 13. The entrance qualificationwas raised from 7th class passed to matriculation.
- 14.
- 15. Basic B.Sc. Nursing Theneed for providing basic training in nursing at University Level was felt by the members of TNAI from 1940 onwards.
- 16. B.Sc. Nursing (Hones.)was started at Delhi in July 1946 in School Of Hospital Administration which was started in 1943.
- 17. This school wasrenamed as College Of Nursing which is now called Rajkumari Amrit Kaur College OF Nursing in1972.
- 18. This college islocated at Lajpat Nagar, New Delhi.
- 19. A similar coursein B.Sc. Nursing was started at CMC Vellore, Madras University, and Tamil Nadu in 1946 by the Joint Church Society of England, U.S.A and Canada.
- 20. Post Basic/ PostCertificate B.Sc. Nursing
- 21. The need forhigher training for certificate nurses was also stressed by the Mudaliar Committee in 1962.
- 22. For up gradationof professional standard, two year Post Basic Certificate B.Sc.
- 23. Degree Programmed for nurseswith Diploma in General nursing and Midwifery was started in Dec.
- 24. 1962 by theSchool of Nursing, University of Thiruvananthpuram.
- 25.
- 26. M.Sc. Nursing Education Twoyear course in Master of Nursing was started at Rajkumari Amrit Kaur College of Nursing, New Delhi in 1959.
- 27. In 1969; M.SCNursing was started at CMC Vellore affiliated to Madras University.
- 28. The M.Sc. NursingCurriculum was prepared and prescribed by Indian Nursing Council in 1986 which is implemented by all the colleges.
- 29. M.Sc. in PsychiatricNursing was also started in Sept. 1983 at NIMHANS, Bangalore.
- 30. This college isaffiliated to Bangalore University.
- 31.
- 32. The inspection committee constitutedby INC under statute 30(4) for the inspection of the college, visited RAK College of Nursing,
- 33. New Delhi onSeptember 13, 1977 and advised the principal to form an M. Phil committee to assess all the requirements for the said Programmed.
- 34. But due tosome administrative reasons the M. Phil Programmed could be started only on Oct.15, 1986 after due approval of the M. Phil Committee members.
- 35. The Programmed isof 1 yr for regular candidates and 2 yr for part time candidates.
- 36.
- 37. Ph. DProgrammed was started in few colleges of nursing like College of Nursing PGI, College Of Nursing CMC Vellore, and College Of Nursing Affiliated to Mangalore University and at RAK College of Nursing, Delhi
- 38. from 1990 onwards.Ph. D Programmed in Psychiatric Nursing is also there in NIMHANS, Bangalore, for their own faculty.
- 39.