BSc nursing programme in India has been revamped to bring uniformity in nursing education across India.
In its first major overhaul since 1947, the BSc (Bachelor of Science) nursing programme is revamped now and has competency-based nursing curriculum. The new curriculum intends to bring uniformity in nursing education across India. The revised curriculum has been standardised and updated and will be implemented from January 2022.
The BSc nursing curriculum for the first time included medical ethics. The new system will emphasise more on acquiring competency in each area of study and the system now consists of semester patterns and will be credit-based. Moreover, nursing informatics and forensic nursing have been added to the syllabus.
The Hindu reported that Satendra Singh who teaches in a medical college and is a guest faculty at GTB Hospital's Florence Nightingale Nursing School said that the Indian Nursing Council (INC) has revised the nursing curriculum under Section 16 of the INC Act.
The revised curriculum does not include disability competencies and disability rights. “It still includes the pejorative expressions ‘handicapped’, ‘mentally challenged’ and physically challenged. The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act mandates inclusion of disability rights in the higher education. Curriculum also excludes gender expression and identity components which Transgender Persons Act mandates be included,” Singh said.
What's new in BSc nursing curriculum?
As per the revised curriculum, simulation-based training is given specific importance in the practical, 10% of the practical are in the simulation lab.
“So students will go to the clinical area after the compulsory training in the simulation laboratories. Also the gazette does not permit the admission for non-science background students for B.Sc. Nursing program and minimum qualifying marks for entrance test shall be 50%. In the university theory paper pattern (For 75 marks), multiple choice questions have been added,” said Professor Roy K George, member of INC.
The internal assessment would be based on attendance, seminars, microteaching, written assignments, group project, individual presentation, work and reports.
There will be mandatory modules for each specialisation and the students need to pass them by getting at least 50% marks in each module. As per new norms, nursing colleges should have 100 bedded parent or own hospitals.
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