PPT On nursing education in India

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1.INTRODUCTION:
According to ICN: Nursing encompasses autonomous and collaborative care of individuals of all ages, families, groups and communities, sick or well and in all settings. Nursing includes the promotion of health, prevention of illness, and the care of ill, disabled and dying people.

2.HISTORY OF NURSING EDUCATION IN INDIA:

1. St Stephens Hospital at Delhi was the first one begun training the Indian women as nurses in 1867. 
2. Nursing and its history indicates that the principles and practices of nursing are ancient. 
3. Before independence, the progress of nursing and nursing education was not good due to :-

• Caste system
• Poor status of women
• The notion that nursing is done by low people and it is servants work.

3.AIMS OF NURSING EDUCATION

• Nursing man power development
• Knowledge aim
• Leadership aim
• Professional development
• Personality development
• Nursing Research 
• Democratic citizenship

4. PRESENT SYSTEM OF NURSING

• Nursing council act came to existence in 1948 to constitute a council of nurses to safeguard the quality of nursing education in the country.
• Indian Nursing Council is a statutory body that regulates nursing education in the country that regulates nursing education in the country through prescription, inspection, examination, certification, maintaining standard and uniform syllabus.

5. LEVELS OF NURSING EDUCATION

    1.Through Board of Examination Programs

• Auxiliary Nurse and Midwife 
• General Nursing and Midwifery

   2.University Programs

• BSc (N)
• Post Basic BSc (N)
• MSc (N) in various specialties
• M. Phil in Nursing and PhD in Nursing 

6. MAJOR DEFICIENCIES IN NURSING EDUCATION IN INDIA:

• Lack of good standard training schools and colleges.
• Limited facilities for undergoing higher education in nursing.
• Variation in nursing training courses/ syllabus within the state as well as among different states of India.
• Facility for undergoing specialty training in different areas such as emergency nursing, pediatric nursing etc. at present the opportunities and facilities are very limited.
• There is a great need of to prepare nurse educators.
• Rigid curriculum and lack of teaching material in terms of book and journals etc.

7. EMERGENCY TRENDS IN NURSING:

• ICN stated that nursing curriculum is being challenged to go beyond the theories of caring to empower students with self knowledge and also generate new methods of practices.
• Use of technological advancements
• Interdisciplinary approach to nursing education 
• Problem based learning
• Market oriented and develop marketing strategies
• Use of informatics research
• Evidence based clinical practice
• To achieve higher level of nursing  of the need is of the education that is liberally and scientifically based, flexible and culturally sensitive and fonded on the core value of nursing profession.

8. Thank You..