Sardar Rajas College of Nursing, Tirunelveli

The Sardar Rajas College of Nursing was started in 2010 is one of the renowned colleges in Thirurajapuram, Kavalkinaru Junction, Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu. This co-educational institute that occupies 12. 19 acres of land as an intercalary campus, aims at producing competent nurses.

Affiliated to the Indian Nursing Council (INC), the college provides various levels of nursing courses undergraduate and postgraduate as well. Sardar Rajas College of Nursing aims at providing quality education in nursing sciences to as many students as possible and yet provide personal attention and care for each student since the college admits a maximum of 200 students in a year and has 12 faculty members.

Sardar Rajas College of Nursing has put in place several facilities in order to improve sharpness of the college students’ learning. The Nursing Foundation Lab with staff essential items like pulse oximeter, glucometer and manual dummy’s enable students to practice basic and complex nursing skills.

Community bags and audiovisual materials are available in the Community Health Nursing Lab to enable the students to practice in preventive and promotive care of the community. Although having professional mannequins like those used in surgery, Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Lab including birthing simulators as well as NICU setup models are ideal for students for acquisition of maters and child health care skills.

For its part the college boasts of a nutrition laboratory,a anatomy laboratory plus ventilated classroom that has enhanced with teaching facilities such as: LCD projectors. Sardar Rajas College of Nursing provides a total five courses out of which 2 are under graduate and 3 are post graduate. It offers different full-time courses in nursing, offering various sectors in the nursing profession. The affiliated B.

Sc Nursing programme is a four-year course offered to fifty students and the Post Basic B. Sc Nursing is a two year programme offered to forty students. The admission in Sardar Rajas College of Nursing is competitive and aims to admit learning minded students for the college’s nursing courses.

On the practicalities of the admission process, the reader is referred to the aptly named ‘Info-DSU’ and the ‘Admission handbook’’ section of the college official website or seek information from the admission department for the current updates on admission schedule, requirements or documents required for admission.

Suggested by the current group affiliation with the 1500-bed multispecialty of Sardar Rajas Mission Hospital students, the college is indeed committed to offering quality nursing education.

The use of realistic training affiliated to an extensive exposure to clinical practice in different multispecialty hospitals of Nagercoil will equip the graduates adequately to face the pertinent issues emerging in the sphere of nursing.