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DEVELOPMENT OF NURSING EDUCATION

Basic General Nursing And Midwifery Education

1. Training of Dais(Birth Attendant )

The Dai training continued past independence. The

goal was to train one Dai in each village and ultimate goal

was to train all the practicing Dais in country Duration of training was 30 days. No age limit was

prescribed, training include theory and practice, more

emphasis on field practice. This training was done at

subcentre and equipments provided by UNICEF.



2. Auxillary Nurse Midwife

In 1950 Indian Nursing Council came out with some

important decisions relating to future patterns of nursing

training in India.One of the important decision was that

there should be only two standard of training nursing and

midwifery, subsequently the curriculum for these courseswere prescribed. The first course was started at St. Marys Hospital

Punjab,1951.The entrance qualification was up to 7/8

years of schooling.The period of training was 2years witch



include a 9 month of midwifery and 3 months o

community experience.

In 1977, as a result of the decision to prepare multipurpose

health worker& vocationalization of higher secondary

education, curriculum was revised a designed to have 1.5

year of vocationalized ANM programme and six months o

general education.The entrance qualification was raisedfrom 7th passed to matriculation passed.

Under multipurpose scheme promotional avenue

was opened to senior ANMS for undergoing six months

promotional training for which course was prescribed byINC.



3. Lady Health Visitor Course

Training of LHV course continued post independance.The

syllabus prepar ed and prescribed by INC in 1951.The

entrance qualification was metriculation.The duration was

two and a half years which subsequently reduced to 2 years.

4 . General Nursing And Midwifery Course

GNM course existed since early years of century.In

1951,syllabus was prescribed by INC.In 1954 a special

provision was made for male nurse.In1954 public health

was integrated into basic nursing course.



First revision of course was done in 1963. In1964-65

Psychiatric nursing was included in curriculum.The

duration of course was reduced from 4 years to 3.5 years.

Second revision was done in 1982. The duration of the

course reduced to 3 years.The Midwifery training of one

year duration was gradually reduced to 9 months and then

six months, finally three year integrated programme oGNM was prescribed in 1982.



5.Post-Basic/Post Certificate Short-Term Courses And

Diploma Programmes

During 1948-50 four nurses were sent to the U.K.by Govt.

of India for mental health nursing diploma.During 1954

Manzil Medical Health centre,Lucknow gave psychiatric

nursing orientation course of 4 - 6weeks duration. In 1951

a one year course in public health was started at college onursing Delhi.Govt. of India felt urgent need for psychiatric

nurses during 1953-54,this resulted in first organized

course at All India Institute of Mental Health.

In 1962 diploma in peadatric nursing was established atJ.J.Group of Hospitals, Bombay.At present there are many



other courses of three months duration which are monitored

and recognized by INC.The ultimate aim of all the post-

basic/ post certificate programme is to improvement o

quality of patient care and promotion of health.

University-Level Programmes.

1.Basic BSc Nursing First university programme started just before

independence in 1946 at university of Delhi.and CMC

Vellore. In 1949, on recommendation of university

education committee and education commission(1964-66)and conference&workshop held by TNAI,The WHO and



UGC,some more colleges came up in different state

affiliated to different state university.

INC prescribes the syllabus which has been revised three

times,the last revision was done in 1981.It was done on

basis of the 10+3+2 system of general education.At present

the BSc Nursing programme which is recommended by the

INC is of four years and have foundations for future studyand specialization in nursing.

2. Post Basic BSc Nursing

The need for higher training for certificate nurses was

stressed by the Mudaliar Committee in1962. Two



years post basic certificate BSc(N) programme was

started in December 1962.for nurses with diploma in

general and midwifery with minimum of 2 years

experience. First started by university of Trivandrum. At

present there are many colleges in India offering Pc BSc(N)

Course.

3. Post Basic Nursing by Distance Education Mode.

In1985 Indira Gandhi National open university was

established. In1992 Post Basic BSc Nursing programme

was launched, which is three years duration course is

recognized by INC.



4. Post- Graduate Education-MSc Nursing

First two years course in masters of nursing was started atRAK College of Nursing in 1959.and in 1969 in CMC

Vellore. At present there are many colleges imparting MSc

Nursing degree course in different specialties.

5. M.Phil

INC felt need for M.Phil programme as early on 1977,for

this purpose committee was appointed.In 1986 one year full

time and two years part time programme was started in

RAK College of nursing Delhi.



6. Ph.D in Nursing

Indian nurses were sent abroad for Ph. D programmeearlier. From1992 Ph D in nursing is also available in

India.MAHI is one of the university having PhD

programme.



Current Educational Patterns in Nursing

1.Non University Programme

Basic - ANM-GNM

Advance-Post-Certificate diploma

2. University Programme

Basic- BSc(N)

Post-Basic BSc(Regular)

Post-Basic BSc(N).IGNOU

Advance:MSc (Nursing)

M. phil

Ph.D.

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