Nursing

The nursing stream consists of courses that lead you into the nursing and midwifery profession. It is considered to be one of the noblest professions. If you have a passion to serve and care for the neediest, nursing is the profession for you. Some of the traits desirable for making a career in nursing are being able to take responsibility, ability to stay focused for long working hours, kind and caring personality and ability to take important decisions quickly. Duties of a nurse are vast and generally depend on the specific role however the main duties of a nurse consist of administering medicines and injections, discharge of patients, their admission, employing technical procedures like dressing, therapy, collect, label and dispatch specimens and take care of dietary requirements of patients etc. At higher levels, nurses can roles such as supervising nursing department, attend to the correspondence of nursing staff etc.
…ANM Nursing, GNM Nursing, BSc Nursing, Post Basic Bsc Nursing, MSc nursing are popular undergraduate and postgraduate courses in this stream. On the Postgraduate level, various specialisations are offered including Pediatric Nursing, Medical-Surgical Nursing, Obstetrics and Gynecological Nursing, Community Health Nursing etc. After Post graduation, doctoral degree courses are also available for people who wish to pursue higher education.

In an undergraduate nursing course of Bsc, Nursing students may expect to learn following topics – general science, communicative English, applied sociology and applied psychology applied anatomy and applied physiology, nursing foundation course, applied biochemistry, first aid, applied nutrition and dietetics, community health nursing – health care policy & regulation and environmental science, Pathology, Pharmacology, Applied Microbiology and Infection Control, Medical-surgical Nursing with integrated pathophysiology, geriatric nursing with integrated pathophysiology, professionalism, Professional Values & Ethics including bioethics, nursing research and statistics, etc. among other various topics.
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