Question : Nursing Colleges

Will the Minister of HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE be pleased to state:

(a) the existing number of Government and private nursing colleges/paramedical institutes in the country, State/UT-wise;

(b) whether the Government has received a number of complaints regarding the quality of education imparted by these institutions and if so, the details thereof along with the action taken by the Government thereon;

(c) whether the Government proposes to upgrade the existing nursing and paramedical institutes;

(d) if so, the details thereof, State/ UT-wise including Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra along with the funds required for the same; and

(e) the steps being taken to increase the number of qualified faculty to improve the quality of nursing education, nursing skills and its knowledge in the country?

ANSWER
THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND
FAMILY WELFARE
(SHRI FAGGAN SINGH KULASTE)
(a): The State/UT-wise number of nursing institutions with admission capacity in India is at Annexure. As regards para medical Institutes are concerned, no such central data is maintained.

(b): Indian Nursing Council (INC) conducts surprise inspection of a college to ensure that the quality of education, infrastructure etc. of the institute are as per guidelines, some of the important steps taken by INC to improve the quality of nursing education are as follows:-
1. Institution should have its own 100 bedded hospital.
2. Institution should have own building within two years of the establishment.
3. Renewals are issued every year after scrutinizing the documents w.r.t. INC norms.
4. Faculty details are to be updated on the website by the institution.

(c) & (d): No.

(e): To Improve the quality of Nursing education as well as to upgrade the knowledge and skills of nursing teachers, Indian Nursing Council has taken many pro-active steps such as:
i. Student patient ratio has been changed from 1:5 to 1:3;




ii. The land from 5 acres has been relaxed to construct building of 54,000 sq. ft. for school/college of Nursing and Hostel;

iii. Conducting Capacity building training of teachers of pre-service education;

iv. Relaxing norms for teaching faculty to start B.Sc. (N) Programme:
• At least 2 M.Sc. (N) faculty to be available;
• Qualification and Experience of the Nursing Teachers has been relaxed;
• Sharing of teaching faculty for both Diploma and Graduate Programme;

v. Relaxation for opening M.Sc. (N) programme:
• Super speciality Hospital can start M.Sc.(N) without having under graduate programme.
• Relaxation of student teacher ratio for M.Sc (N) programme has been relaxed from 1:5 to 1:10
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vi Age increased for Teaching Faculty up to 70 years.