Welcome to BSc Nursing

BSc Nursing is a 4-year undergraduate course, divided into 8 semesters that aims to provide an in-depth nursing training to the candidates.

Candidates who have successfully completed their 10+2 exams from a recognised board and are from the Science stream with Physics, Chemistry, Biology and English as their compulsory subjects are eligible to apply.

Duration : 4 Years

Eligibility : 10+2

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Courses offered: B.Sc. Nursing (Basic) Program

Duration of the course shall be four completed years including clinical training.

Philosophy (Adapted from Indian Nursing Council)

INC believes that:

• Health is a state of well-being that enables a person to lead a psychologically, socially and economically productive life. Health is a right of all the people.
• Individuals, families and communities have a responsibility towards maintaining their health. Nursing contributes to the health services in a vital and significant way in the health care delivery system.
• It recognizes national health goals and is committed to participate in the Implementation of National Health policies and programmes.
• It aims at identifying health needs of the people, planning and providing quality care in collaboration with other health professionals and community groups.
• Scope of nursing practice encompasses provision of promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative aspects of care to people across their life span in a wide variety of health care settings.
• Practice of Nursing is based upon application of basic concepts and principles derived from the physical, biological, behavioral sciences, medicine and nursing.
• Nursing is based on values of caring, and aims to help individuals to attain independence in self-care. It necessitates development of compassion and understanding of human behavior among its practitioners to provide care with respect and dignity and protect the rights of individuals and groups.
• Undergraduate nursing program is broad based education within an academic framework, specifically directed to the development of critical thinking skills, competencies & standards required for practice of professional nursing and midwifery as envisaged in National Health Policy 2002.
• The teachers have the responsibility to be role models and create learning environment that enables students to acquire inquiry driven, self-directed learning and foster an attitude of lifelong learning.
• Under graduate nursing education program prepares its graduates to become exemplary citizen by adhering to code of ethics and professional conduct at all times in fulfilling personal, social and professional obligations so as to respond to national aspirations.

Programme Goals

• Offer a curricular program that will produce nurses who are scientifically informed, socially aware, committed and technically competent utilizing the nursing process.
• Provide high quality, low cost nursing education in a conducive teaching-learning milieu.
• To provide opportunities for scientific investigation on issues, concerns.
• Inculcate loyalty among the faculty and graduates and uphold the ideals of the college and the university.

Examination Regulations

Note :

1. Applied Anatomy and Applied Physiology: Question paper will consist of Section-A Applied Anatomy of 37 marks and Section-B Applied Physiology of 38 marks.

2. Applied Sociology and Applied Psychology: Question paper will consist of Section-A Applied Sociology of 37 marks and Section-B Applied Psychology of 38 marks.

3. Applied Microbiology and Infection Control including Safety: Question paper will consist of Section-A Applied Microbiology of 37 marks and Section-B Infection Control including Safety of 38 marks.

4. Applied Nutrition and Dietetics and Applied Biochemistry: Question paper will consist of Section-A Applied Nutrition and Dietetics of 50 marks and Section-B Biochemistry of 25 marks.

5. Pharmacology, Genetics and Pathology: Question paper will consist of Section-A of Pharmacology with 38 marks, Section-B of Pathology with 25 marks and Genetics with 12 marks.

6. Nursing Research and Statistics: Nursing Research should be of 55 marks and Statistics of 20 marks.

7. A candidate must have minimum of 80% attendance (irrespective of the kind of absence) in theory and practical in each course/subject for appearing for examination.

8. A candidate must have 100% attendance in each of the practical areas before award of degree.

9. Following exams shall be conducted as College exam and minimum pass is 50% (C Grade) and to be sent to the University for inclusion in the marks sheet and shall be considered for calculating aggregate.

• Communicative English
• Health/Nursing Informatics and Technology
• Professionalism, Professional Values and Ethics including Bioethics
• Introduction to Forensic Nursing & Indian Laws

10. Minimum pass marks shall be 40% (P grade/4 point) for English only and elective modules.

11. Minimum pass marks shall be 50% in each of the Theory and practical papers separately except in English.

12. The student has to pass in all mandatory modules placed within courses and the pass mark for each module is 50% (C Grade). The allotted percentage of marks will be included in the internal assessment of College/University Examination (Refer Appendix 2).

13. A candidate has to pass in theory and practical exam separately in each of the paper.

14. If a candidate fails in either theory or practical, he/she has to re-appear for both the papers (Theory and Practical).

15. If the student has failed in only one subject and has passed in all the other subjects of a particular semester and Grace marks of up to 5 marks to theory marks can be added for one course/subject only, provided that by such an addition the student passes the semester examination.

16. The candidate shall appear for exams in each semester:

• The candidate shall have cleared all the previous examinations before appearing for fifth semester examination. However, the candidates shall be permitted to attend the consecutive semesters.
• The candidate shall have cleared all the previous examinations before appearing for seventh semester examination. However, the candidates shall be permitted to attend the consecutive semesters.
• The candidate shall have cleared all the previous examination before appearing for final year examination.
• The maximum period to complete the course successfully should not exceed 8 years.

17. The candidate has to pass separately in internal and external examination (shall be reflected in the marks sheet). No institution shall submit average internal marks of the students not more than 75% (i.e. if 40 students are admitted in a course the average score of the 40 students shall not exceed 75% of total internal marks).

18. At least 50% of the Non-nursing subjects like Applied Anatomy & Physiology, Applied Biochemistry, Applied Psychology & Sociology, Applied Microbiology, Pharmacology, Genetics, Nutrition & Dietetics, Communicative English and Health/Nursing Informatics & Technology should be taught by the Nursing teachers. Teachers who are involved in teaching non-nursing subjects can be the examiners for the program.

19. Maximum number of candidates for practical examination should not exceed 20 per day. Particular year and of same institution batch shall be examined by the same set of examiners.

20. All practical examinations must be held in the respective clinical areas.