Maneesh Sharma
Over the past 100 years, the nursing profession has seen tremendous changes in its growth in India and the established
organizational bodies such as Indian Nursing Council, Trained nurse association of India has a huge role to bring about this change
after their foundation in the year 1908 and 1947. Nursing profession kept on developing and in the course of recent years, the demeanor of the
general public towards it has been changed to some extent.1 Globally, there are 19.3 million nurses and midwives according to the
WHO's World Health Statistics Report 2011 and the figures reveals that in the shortage of the health workers globally, nurses reflects more than
50% of shortage currently which can be seen on a large scale in South East Asia and Africa2. According to INC, total no. of nursing
educational institutions, as on 31st March 2018 are 8,770 (among which ANM 1909, GNM 3215, B.Sc. Nursing 1936, PB B.Sc. Nursing 775,
P.B.D.P 292, M.Sc. Nursing 643 institutions). At present, in State Uttarakhand 87 nursing colleges are recognized by INC among which 20 are
B.Sc. Nursing, 8 are M.Sc. Nursing,7 are Post basic B.Sc. Nursing,29 are GNM, 21are ANM and 2 are of P.B.D.P.3
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