Sushrutha Institute of Nursing, Bengaluru

Sushrutha Institute of Nursing, Bengaluru, is one of the premier institutions in the field of Nursing Education that is situated in the Bengaluru, Karnataka, and was established in the year 2003. This co-educational institute, which is located in a large 100 acre land, is one of the best centres for any nursing education and has the following nursing programmes for the prospective health care workers.

The student enrolment per year is 83 and faculty 45 which helps the institute to focus on quality education. Sushrutha Institute of Nursing is a Karnataka State Nursing Council recognised institution to offer six full time courses at three degree stages in the different facets of nursing care.

Sushrutha Institute of Nursing aims at having a number of developed facilities to facilitate students learning needs as a learning institute of the contemporary world. As a central point of these already existing facilities is a large library where are available the up-to-date text books and references for all the nursing courses.

HELINET consortium has made it easy for students to access many national and international journals; periodicals, newspapers, and health magazines. Internet connection equipped digital library has videotapes/CD-ROMs of educational programmes in various subjects thereby promoting familiarisation with information technology.

Another important facility that one can boast of as possessing sophisticated nursing skill laboratories with emphases on different practices of nursing that are practicable before and during clinical observation periods. These labs have got almost all instruments needed and the number of instruments is sufficient enough for the practical workouts of the students.

The institute also has separate hostel accommodation for both male and female students in order to facilitate student’s accommodation for students coming from different regions in the country. The campus includes an events and seminar auditorium some about campus life for spirited academic atmosphere.

The canteen provides nutritional meals for the students and members of the staff, and a health centre equipped with first aid services for members of the learning institution. The college provides courses in nursing to meet various career needs in the field of medical and healthcare. The institute offers six full time courses and all these have both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

At undergraduate level, a student can take four years B. Sc Nursing course or four years General Nursing and Midwifery (GNM) course. To further the training, the institute has four unique taught M. Sc Nursing programmes which take two years to complete. Some of these speciality master’s degree programmes encompass M. Sc Psychiatric Nursing , M. Sc Paediatric Nursing, M.

Sc Obstetrics and Gynaecological Nursing, and M. Sc Medical Surgical Nursing . The student capacity of the institute is 83, thus maintaining the quality education experience. The selection process at Sushrutha Institute of Nursing involves certain steps considering that the institute wants candidates who possess appropriate attitude, academic ability and interest in nursing and healthcare.

It is a general trend that such courses as nursing requires academic performance, results of an entrance examination, and in some cases interviews. Sushrutha Institute of Nursing follows the concept of becoming the best nursing college in the country to make its nursing education more comprehensive.