Lesson plan on PATTERNS OF NURSING

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

PROGRAMMMES IN INDIA
SUBMITTED TO SUBMITTED BY
Mrs.Vedha darly Miss.Vidhyasri
Associate professor MSC 1 year
Texcity college of nursing. Texcity college of nursing
Coimbatore Coimbatore
IDENTIFICATION DATA
NAME: Ms. Vidhyasri
CLASS:MSc Nursing Ist Year
SUBJECT: Nursing education
TOPIC:PATTERNS OF NURSING EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAMMES IN INDIA.
UNIT:Nursing Educational Programs ( Units VIII)
GROUP:MSc Nursing Isr year students
SIZE OF THE GROUP:40 members
DURATION:1 hour
PLACE:BSc Nursing 4thYear classroom

METHOD OF TEACHING:Lecture cum discussion method

AV AIDS USED:Charts , flash cards , transparency sheets.
LANGUAGE: English

NAME OF THE EVALUATOR: Mrs.vedha .MSc(N)

Associate professor

Texcity college of nursing

Coimbatore

OBJECTIVES:
General objectives:
After the class, students will be able to:
 Acquire knowledge of topic- PATTERN OF NURSING EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAMMES IN INDIA.  Vocalize their learning
about the topic

 Explain various trends in nursing education and its impact

 Able to critically analyze the existing nursing educational programs, issues and future trends.

 Discuss various nursing education programs and services.

 Understand the development of nursing education from diploma programs to PhD and various other clinical practitioner courses,
Student teacher will be able to :

1. Develop confidence in facing the group.

2. Develop confidence in teaching.

3. Develop skills in classroom management.

4. Develop in-depth knowledge about the Topic.

5. Develop skills in conduction of evaluation .

6. Develop skills in appropriate utilization of A.V. aids.

Time SPECIFIC CONTENT Teaching Learning Activities with A.V.aids EVALUATION

OBJECTIVES

1min INTRODUCTION
The history of nursing spans from the history
of human kind. For as long as there has been
life , there has been the need toprovide care
and comfort to those suffering from illness
 and injury.

From the dawn of civilization, evidence

prevails to support the premise that
nurturing has been essential to the
preservation of life. Survival of the human
race, therefore is in inextricably intertwined
with the development of nursing.

1min ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE TOPIC : Today we

will be studying about pattern of
nursingeducation and training programmes
in India .

After this Nursing educational programmes may be Student nurse defines nursing education Define
teaching defined as in large part that influencing of programmes with the help of chart. nursing
session the one group of human beings, the pupils to education
student will be grow towards defined objectives, utilizing a alprogram
second group of humanbeings, the teacher me
able to : as agents, and operating in setting of third
group of human being, the public variously
Define nursing
concerned both with objectives and with
educational
means used to achieve them.
programmes.

Understand NURSING EDUCATION IN INDIA The nursing Student teacher describes the conceptual
theconceptual council act came into existence in 1948 to development of nursing education in India.
development of constitute a council of nurses who would
nursing safeguard the quality of nursing education
education in in the country. The mandate was establish
India. and maintain uniform standards of nursing
education. Today, the nursing education is
regulate by Indian nursing council through
prescription, inspection, examination,
certification and maintaining its stand for a
uniform syllabus at each level of nursing
education. They have also ensured easier
measures for equivalence, exchange and
practice for nurses in any part of the
country

Enumerate RECOMMENDATIONS OF VARIOUS Student teacher enumerate

recommendatio COMMITTEES PERTAINING TO NURSING recommendations of various committees
ns of various EDUCATION. pertaining to nursing education with the
committees help of flash cards and transparency sheets.
The recommendations given by
pertaining to
committees and commission provided
nursing guidelines for improvement and growth of
education. nursing education.

1. Health survey and development

committee ( Bhore committee 1946)
 Establishment of nursing college.

 Creation of an all India nursing council.

2. Shetty committee 1954
 Improvement in conditions of training of
nurses.
 Minimum requirement for admission to
be in accordance with regulationof the INC.
3. Health survey and planning committee
(Mudaliar committee 1959-61)
 Three grades of nurses i.e.the basic
nurses (4yrs), auxillary nurse midwife
(2yrs) and nurses with a degree
qualification.
 For GNM minimum entrance
qualification matriculation .
 For degree course passed higher
secondary or pre university.
 Medium of instruction preferably English
in General nursing.
 Degree course should be taught only in
English.
4. Mukherjee committee, 1966.
 Training of nurses and ANM’S required
for family planning.
4. Kartar singh committee,1972-73

 Multipurpose health worker scheme

 Change in designation of ANM’s and LHV
 Setting up of training division at the
ministry of health and family welfare

7. Sarojini varadappan committee, 1990 (A

high power

committee on nursing and nursing

profession.)
 Two levels of nursing personnel
 Post basic BSc nursing degree to
continue
 Masters in nursing programme to be
increased and strengthened.
 Doctorate in nursing programme to be
started in selected university

 Continuing education and staff

development for nurses.
8. Working group on nursing education and
manpower,1991.
 By 2020 the GNM programme to be
phased out
 Curriculum of BSc nursing to be modified

 Staffing norm should be as per INC

 There should be deliberate plan for
preparation of teachers MSc/Mphil and
PhD degrees.
 Improvement in functioning of INC
 Importance of continuing education for
nurses.

DEVELOPMENT OF NURSING EDUCATIION.

 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
 Student teacher describes development of
nursing education in India.

practice. This training was done at

subcentre and equipments provided by
UNICE F.

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
courses were 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 2
years witch include a 9 month of midwifery
and 3 months of 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 of
general education.The entrance
qualification was raised from 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 by
INC.

3. Lady Health Visitor Course

Training of LHV course continued post

independance.The syllabus prepared 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 of GNM 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 of nursing 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 at J.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
of 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 study and
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, whichis three years duration
course is recognized by INC.
4. Post- Graduate EducationMSc Nursing

First two years course in mastersof nursing

was started at RAKCollege 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

programme earlier. From1992 Ph D in
nursing is also available in India.

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.
Trends in nursing education changes from
basic general nursing service to doctorate
education in nursing.

Summary

Conclusion
Nursing education have expanded
considerably post independence.
University education in nursing brought
about changes in nursing education.The
type of nurses required today is an “all
round personality”.
Education brings changes in behaviour of
the individual in a desirable manner.It aims
at all round development of an individual to
become mature,self

sufficient,intellectually,culturally
refined.socially efficient and spiritually
advanced.

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