Princess Durru Shehvar College of Nursing, Hyderabad

The Princess Durru Shehvar College of Nursing situated at Hyderabad was started in the year 2003 which focuses on imparting nursing education. This affiliated college is situated in the centre of Hyderabad having a area of 2. 33 acres of land. The institute is associated with INC because it is an important accrediting body responsible for the quality of Indian Nursing education.

It is a small college with students’ enrolment stand at 167 and faculties stand at 13, offer a teaching to learning balance child. There are four specialised courses offered under two degrees for both the undergraduate and the postgraduate programmes in nursing. Princess Durru Shehvar College of Nursing has numerous amenities thought to provide an improved learning environment for its students.

A well equipped library provides prints and electronic sources for professional books, journals, and reference materials. This way, the college IT infrastructure prepares the students on the use of IT in health and nursing practices. Skills practice is in adequately equipped laboratories and established as per the guidelines of Indian Nursing Council.

To support the lifestyle of the students, the college provides the facility of girls’ hostel, mess facility and sports facility. It also bow has and auditorium for event and seminars, gym for exercise and fitness, and an health centre with first aids. Princess Durru Shehvar College of Nursing currently has a total of four full-time programmes , one at under-graduate level and three post-graduate options.

The most important course offering of the college is the B. Sc Nursing programme for which the college has an approved intake capacity of 40 seats. At the post graduate level the college offers M. Sc in Medical Surgical Nursing having 4 aspiring seats and Paediatric Nursing and Community Health Nursing also having 4 seats each.

This totals the student admission in all the programmes to 52, which has been achieved as a measure towards ensuring that the college has a good students to faculties ratio to help facilitate personal attention when offering education to its clients.

This paper aims at establishing admission process at Princess Durru Shehvar College of Nursing with a view to facilitating the admission of more dedicated and promising candidates in to the colleges Nursing courses. The college probably takes into account students’ performance in relevant course and may even administer the students with tests or interviews.

Since the college is INDIAN NURSING COUNCIL affiliated and approved, it must admit students to nursing education in line with standard set in India. The scenario of the Institution in Purani Haveli, Hyderabad is fruitful in terms of historical background for the student as well as availability of multispecialty hospitals for practical exposures.