About Rajkumari Amrit Kaur College Of Nursing New Delhi, Delhi

The Rajkumari Amrit Kaur College of Nursing is a pioneer institute for nursing education in India and South East Asian region offering basic and higher education programme. It is controlled financially by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and academically affiliated to University of Delhi as Department of Nursing under faculty of science. The primary objective of the College is to provide and promote education and research in the field of nursing. The College was established in 1946 and initially B.Sc . (Hons.) Nursing programme was formulated to train young women as professional nurses for meeting the health needs of the country. In 1959, the University approved the initiation of two years Master of Nursing programme, M.Phil, in Nursing was star ted in 1986 as a foundation course for undertaking doctoral work and in the year 1992, Doctoral programme in nursing was started under Department of Nursing, University of Delhi. Besides the regular academic programmes, College also conducts short term courses for nursing personnel through the Department of Continuing Education. College is also designated as a regional study centre for Ph.D Programme in Nursing conducted by Rajiv Gandhi University of Health science, Bangalore in collaboration with WHO and Indian Nursing Council. The college is also in process of being established as centre of excellence in Nursing by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare. The college is also recognized as a programme study centre by IGNOU (Indira Gandhi National Open University) for conducting post basic B.Sc. Nursing Course. The College was selected as one of the sub-recipient for the GFATM (Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria) project under INC.

The College believes in training professional nurses from all states of India to meet the great challenges of service in the field of nursing. Professional nursing is a life-long service to the people and nursing must advance along with other health professions if society is to be assured of a balance situation and problems critically and take responsibility for their higher education for maximum professional effectiveness throughout their career.

Furthermore, the College believes in a system of nursing education that fits in with the changing educational patterns of the country to meet the health needs of the society

AIM
To provide a broad-based education for preparation of nursing personnel at both basic and advanced levels who can function in a wide variety of Health Care setting and make their distinctive contribution in all branches of nursing for promotion of health, prevention of diseases, care during illness and maintenance of positive health.

To prepare a corps of well-qualified nurses for leadership positions to assume responsibilities in nursing and to do pioneer work of a creative nature for the development of human and scientific health care system.

To promote the deeper study of nursing with a view to generate new perspectives, and about innovative approaches to deal with problems encountered in nursing and health field.

To maintain a centre of excellence for the pursuit of higher studies in nursing and act as a pace-setting institution to strive to give direction to nursing, to serve better to the contemporary and future needs of nursing development.

Right from its inception, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur College of Nursing has set before it an ideal of excellence in academic courses as well as service to society as a result of which it may truly become holistic in its outlook and approach to meet the health needs of the country.

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