Auxiliary Nurse and Midwife (ANM)

 a) Minimum Standard Requirements

  • A school for training of the ANMS should be located in a community Health Centre (PHC annexe) or a Rural Hospital (RH) having minimum bed strength of 30 and maximum 50 and serving an area with community health programmes. The school should also be affiliated to a district hospital or a secondary care hospital in order to provide experiences of secondary level health care and an extensive gynae-obstertical care.
  • An organization having a hospital with 150 beds with minimum 30-50 obstetrics and gynecology beds, and 100 delivery cases monthly can also open ANM school. The should also have an affiliation of PHC/CHC for the community Health Nursing field experience.
  • Existing ANM schools attached to District Hospitals should have PHC annexed (accommodation facility for 20-30 students) for community health field experience.

Physical Facilities

Office room 1
Class-room 2
Nursing laboratory 1
Nutrition laboratory 1
Library cum study 1
Audio visual aid 1

Clinical Facilities

  • School has to be affiliated to district hospital or a secondary care hospital with minimum 150 beds.
  • Bed occupancy on the average to be between 60% -70%.

Teaching facility - Teaching faculty for 20-40 annual admission:

Category Minimum qualification and experience
Principal M.Sc. Nursing with 3 years of teaching experience or B.Sc(N) with 5 years of teaching experience.
Nursing Tutor B.Sc.Nursing/Diploma in Nursing Education & Administration/Diploma in Public Health Nursing with 2 years clinical experience.

 b) BSc Nursing

Physical Facilities and Teaching Block

Hostel Block

  • Proportionately the size of the built-up area will increase according to the number of students admitted.
  • College of nursing can share laboratories, if they are in same campus under same name and under same trust, that is the institution is one but offering different nursing programmes. However they should have equipments and articles proportionate to the strength of admission. And the class rooms should be available as per the requirement stipulated by Indian Nursing Council of each programme

Clinical Facilities

College of nursing should have a 120-150 bedded Parent/Affiliated Hospital for 40 annual intake in each programme:

  • Distribution of beds in different areas
    • Medical - 30
    • Surgical - 30
    • & Gynecology - 30
    • Pediatrics - 20
    • Ortho – 10
  • Bed Occupancy of the Hospital should be minimum 75%.
  • The size of the Hospital/Nursing Home for affiliation should not be less than 50 beds.
  • Other Specialties/Facilities for clinical experience required are as follows:
    • Major OT
    • Minor OT
    • Dental
    • Eye/ENT
    • Burns and Plastic
    • Neonatology with Nursery
    • Communicable disease
    • Community Health Nursing
    • Cardiology
    • Oncology
    • Neurology/Neuro-surgery
    • Nephrology etc.
    • ICU/ICCU
  • Affiliation of psychiatric hospital should be of minimum 30-50 beds.
  • The Nursing Staffing norms in the affiliated Hospital should be as per the INC norms.
  • The affiliated Hospital should give student status to the candidates of the nursing programme.
  • Affiliated hospitals should be in the radius of 15-30 kms.
  • 1:3 student patient ratio to be maintained.

If the institution is having both GNM and B.Sc(N) programme, it would require 240 bedded parent/affiliated hospital for 40 annual intake in each programme to maintain 1:3 student patient ratio.

Teaching facilities

Qualifications & experience of teachers of college of nursing