B.Sc. Nursing (Bachelor of Science) is an undergraduate course in Nursing stream. The course is of four years. B.Sc. The nursing courses regulated by Indian Nursing Council abbreviated as INC. The course is offered by registered Universities and their affiliated colleges. Some very prominent Medical Institutions like AIIMS (All India Institute of Medical Council), BHU (Banaras Hindu University) etc. offer the course of B.Sc. Nursing Course. The eligibility for the course is different and depends on Institution to Institution. Most Institutions require a minimum of 45% overall in Class 12 with Biology, Physics, and chemistry as the primary subjects in class 12.
The admission process for this course also differs from institution to institution. Some Institutions offer seats on basis of Board Marks and other institutions offer seats after taking an entrance exam. Most reputed institutions offer the students to get absorbed in the same Medical Institution as Nurse or as Teacher. Apart from B.Sc. Nursing, the students can also do a diploma course in General Nursing and Midwifery (GNM) followed by Post-Basic Nursing for similar career options.
Reputed Colleges offering the course are:
⦁ All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) (All AIIMS offer this course)
⦁ Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC)
⦁ Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, (JIPMER) Puducherry
⦁ Banaras Hindu College (BHU)
⦁ Sri Ramachandra University, (SRU) Chennai
⦁ Pt Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak
Admission Procedure:
Interested candidates can apply to different institutions online (On their Official Portal) or offline (By submitting forms at registered centers) between the months of April to June). The students then have to submit the registration fee to the respective institution by offline or online mode. The Entrance exam is taken by the institutions for getting into the course of B.Sc. Nursing is of 400 marks containing 100 questions. The questions usually contain +4 marks for correct answers and -1 mark for wrong answers.
Prominent Institutions admitting students through entrance exam are AIIMS, AFMC, BHU, NITTE University (Mangalore), PPMET, CMC (Ludhiana).
After the declaration of Result or merit list of entrance exam or board marks, counseling process takes place for which schedule is announced earlier. The counseling may take place online or offline depending on the institution. In the counseling process, the students are offered seats according to their ranks and if the student of higher rank denies taking admission on allotted seat then the seats offered to the student of lower rank.
After the counseling process is over, students documents are verified at the given centers or at the institution he/she has taken admission in. The students then have to pay the admission fee. Failing to pay the admission fee or getting documents verified may result in cancellation of admission and the seat is then offered again for admission to students of lower rank in the next round of counseling.
