The Yash Foundation Trust's Shakuntala Yashwant Mane College of Nursing and Medical Research Institute, Ratnagiri

The Yash Foundation Trust's Shakuntala Yashwant Mane College of Nursing and Medical Research Institute is one of the most reputed institutes of nursing education. Established in the year 2006, this coeducational college has been grooming its students as professional health providers for more than a decade. The campus area encompasses 303 students who are enrolled in its various nursing courses.

There are 23 experienced professionals on the faculty. That means it can maintain a good student-to-teacher ratio and give its students a lot of personal attention. It is affiliated with the INC, and therefore, the national standards of nursing education are followed.

Yash Foundation’s Shakuntala Yashwant Mane College of Nursing and Medical Research Institute, Ratnagiri, is affiliated with Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS), Nashik, and is approved by the Indian Nursing Council (INC), New Delhi, as well as the Maharashtra Nursing Council (MNC), Mumbai.

The number of facilities that the Shakuntala Yashwant Mane College of Nursing and Medical Research Institute encompasses to take forward its students on their learning curve is ample. The institute has a good collection of textbooks, reference books, journals, and magazines on nursing and healthcare. The proper provision of various laboratories goes hand in hand with the need for practical training in nursing.

The college has separate hostels for boys and girls with built-in mess facilities at quite affordable rates. The campus has sports facilities, which support the 'Healthy mind in a healthy body' concept. The institute has its own transport facility and a college-owned bus to facilitate student excursions to various community health centres and clinical sites located in and around Ratnagiri for hands-on training.

The nursing courses offered in the Shakuntala Yashwant Mane College of Nursing and Medical Research Institute, through its Yash Foundation Trust, are four full-time nursing programmes at different levels of nursing education. These courses include B. Sc. Nursing , Post Basic B. Sc. Nursing, General Nursing and Midwifery, and Auxiliary Nurse Midwifery . The total intake of students in these courses is 150.

In the courses that are offered in the institution, 50 seats are available for B. Sc. Nursing, followed by 40 in Post-Basic B. Sc. Nursing, and then GNM and ANM programmes offer 30 seats each. A wide array of programmes provides students with choices that most appropriately suit their career aspirations in the nursing field.

Admission to The Yash Foundation Trust Shakuntala Yashwant Mane College of Nursing and Medical Research Institute is governed by the selection of students who are committed and competent for the nursing programmes of the institute. The institute accepts the scores of NEET in the programme of course B. Sc Nursing since it is conducted at the national level to take students in medical and allied health science courses.

This ensures that the students passing out of this programme have a very strong scientific base and will be in a position to afford the stringent nursing curriculum.