1.2 Prespective of Nursing Profession 2
1.2 Prespective of Nursing Profession 2
1.2 Prespective of Nursing Profession 2
PROFESSION:
NATIONAL & GLOBAL
PRESENTED BY:-
AMANDEEP SANGOTRA
M.Sc Nsg. 1st yr
INTRODUCTION
Knowledge of the profession’s history
increases the nurse’s awareness and
promotes an understanding of the social and
intellectual origins of the discipline. From
its earliest history nursing was a form of
community service to protect and preserve
the family. Historically men and women
held the role of nurse. In Prehistoric Period,
women were responsible for gathering
herbs, roots and plants that were used to
heal the sick.
CHARACTERISTICS OF
PROFESSION
• Authority to control its own work.
• Exclusive body of specialized knowledge.
• Extensive period of formal training.
• Specialized competence.
• Control over work performance.
• Service to society.
• Self-regulation.
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• Credentialing system to certify competence.
• Legal reinforcement of professional
standards.
• Ethical practice.
• Creation of a collegial subculture.
• Intrinsic rewards.
• Public acceptance
AT NATIONAL LEVEL
• Stipends to nursing students
• Nurses, Midwives & Dais
• Training of Nurses & Midwives
• Male Nurses
• Public Health Nurses
• Midwives
• Dais
• Nursing Staff
Establishment of Indian Nursing
Council(1947)
There should be only 2 standards of training of
General Nursing and Midwifery-
The full course of General Nursing: 3 yr & 9 months
midwifery
A.N.M course:2 yr
Minimum Entrance Req. :
G.N.M-10th
A.N.M-7th or 8th
A.N.M course replace junior grade Nursing
Certificate
DEVELOPMENT OF NURSING
EDUCATION IN INDIA
The Auxiliary Nurse Midwife Programme:
•The 1st course was started at St.Mary’s Hospital Taran taran,
Punjab in 1951.
•The entrance qualification was raised from 7th to matriculation.
UNIVERSITY LEVEL PROGRAMMES:
Basic B.Sc Nursing:
•The need of nursing at university level was felt in 1940 by TNAI
members.
•B.Sc Nursing was started in July 1946 in School of Hospital
Administration later known as College of Nursing then called
Rajkumari Amrit Kaur College of Nursing, New Delhi in 1972.
•Started in CMC Vellore,in1946
Post-Basic/ Post-Certificate B.Sc Nursing:
• Training for certificate nurses was stressed by Mudaliar
Committee in 1962.
• 2 yr degree program was started in Dec.1962 by School of
Nursing, University of Thiruvananthpuram.
Post-Graduate Education:
M.Sc Nursing:
• 2 yr Degree course was started at RAK College of Nursing,
New Delhi in 1959.
• Started at CMC Vellore in 1969.
• M.Sc Nursing in Psychiatry was started in Sept.1983 at
NIMHANS, Bangalore.
M.Phil Programme: