NURSING

No. of Seats : 30 The total duration of the course is 2 year (18 months + 6 months internship)

First Year
1	Total weeks	52 Weeks
2	Vacation	2 Weeks
3	Gazetted holiday	2 Weeks
4	Preparatory holidays & examination	3 Weeks
5	Teaching hours in weeks	43 Weeks
Total Teaching Hours – 43 Weeks x 40 hours / week = 1720 hours

Second Year (Including Internship)
1	Total weeks	52 Weeks
2	Vacation	2 Weeks
3	Gazetted holiday	2 Weeks
4	Preparatory holidays & examination	2 Weeks
5	Teaching hours in weeks	44 Weeks
Total Teaching Hours – 44 Weeks x 40 hours / week = 1760 hours

Admission terms & conditions:

1. The minimum age for admission shall be 17 years on or before 31 December of the year in which the admission is sought.
2. The maximum age for admission shall be 30 years.
3. The minimum educational requirement shall be the passing of 12 years of schooling (10+2 years course) recognized by CBSE / ICSE / SSSCE / HSCE or a recognized equivalent examination.

Course of Instruction

First Year
	NURSING COURSE	CLASS ROOM HOURS		EXPERIENCE
	Course title and description	Theory	Demonstration	Total	Hospital	Community
1	Community Health Nursing	20	50	700	0	100
2	Health Promotion	20	75	95
	A. Nutrition	5	20	5
	B. Human Body & Hygiene	5	20	5
	C. Environmental Sanitation	0	15	5
	D. Mental Health	0	10	0	0
3	Primary Health Care Nursing-I	30	15	80	0	300
	A. Infection & Immunization	5	20	5
	B. Communicable Diseases	0	25	5
	C. Community Health Problems	0	50	0	0
	D. Primary Medical Care	0	20	0
	E. First Aid & Referral	5	35	0
4	Child Health Nursing	5	110	185	0	100
	Total Hours	55	385	35	0	680

Total 1720 hours

Second Year (First 6 Months)
	NURSING COURSE	CLASS ROOM HOURS		EXPERIENCE
	Course title and description	Theory	Demonstration	Total	Hospital	Community
1	Midwifery		160	20	160	380
2	Health Center management		40		60	60
	Total Hours		200	20	220	440

Total 880 hours

Second Year (Internship Period)
	NURSING COURSE	EXPERIENCE
	Course title and description	Hospital	Community	Total
1	Midwifery	240	240	480
	Antenatal Ward	40
	Intranatal / Labour Room	120
	Post Natal Ward	40	160
2	Neonatal care unit	40	160
	Child Health	80		240
	Community Health and Health Center Management			160
	Total Hours			880

TOTAL = 880 Hours in the internship period Grand Total 1760 Hours Guidelines for Internship:

1. The ANM students (in a group of 4-5) should be posted in the sub center / primary health center with a regular ANM for one month / 4weeks for supervised independent practice in the community which should be residential.
2. The students should participate in all the National Health and Family Welfare programs during the clinic experience.
3. At least 80% of all the clinical requirement should be completed before appearing for the final (Second year) examination.
4. The principal of the A.N.M. school should certify for each student that she has under gone successfully the internship program, 100% clinical requirements and acquired the requisite competencies as listed in the syllabus before the award of the certificate / diploma by the State Nursing Councils / Examination
5. The case book and competency record book should be completed and signed by the competent authority of the school.

Scheme of Examination

Paper	Course	External Assessment	Internal Assessment	Duration
Theory Paper 1	Community Health Nursing	75	25	3 hrs
Theory Paper 2	Health Promotion	75	25	3 hrs
Theory Paper 3	Primary Heath Care Nursing	75	25	3 hrs
Theory Paper 4	Child Health Nursing	75	25	3 hrs
Theory Paper 1	Community Health Nursing and Health Promotion	100	100
Theory Paper 2	Child Health Nursing	100	100
	Total	500	300

Grand total for first year 800 marks Theory and practical examination at the end of the second year

Paper	Course	External Assessment	Internal Assessment	Duration
Theory Paper 5	Midwifery	75	25	3 hrs
Theory Paper 6	Theory Health Center Management	75	25	3 hrs
Theory Paper 3	Midwifery	100	100
Theory Paper 4	Primary Health Care and Health Center Management	100	100
	Total	350	250

Grand total for second year 600 marks Venue for Practical Examination:

1. District only (if the District Hospital is not having school or college of Nursing attached to the district Hospital) even then practical examination of 2nd year ANM students should be conducted at District Hospital.
2. All the ANM School run by Government or Private Schools in the District, their examination should be conducted in district Hospital.
3. If large number of Private schools exist in the District, Proper planning and phasing to be done by Examination Board to cover all students.

  Eligibility criteria for admission:

• The minimum age for admission shall be 17 years on or before 31st December of the year in which admission is sought.
• The maximum age for admission shall be 35 years.
• The minimum educational requirements shall be 10+2 in Arts (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Biotechnology, Economics, Political Science, History, Geography, Business Studies, Accountancy, Home Science, Sociology, Psychology, and Philosophy) and English Students shall be medically fit.
• Students qualifiedin10+2 Arts or Science examination conducted by National institute of Open School.

We believe that, the nursing students need to have an all-round development through varieties of curricular and co-curricular activities.