Academic Departments

Fundamentals of Nursing

The Department of Nursing Foundation is considered one of the most vital pillars of the nursing college. It is here that the spirit, ethics, and essence of nursing are sown in our students.

As an entry-level course, the Fundamentals of Nursing equips students with the essential knowledge, attitudes, and practical skills required to function effectively across various practice settings and grow into professional nurses committed to lifelong service.

Key Learning Outcomes & Interdisciplinary Sciences

Our curriculum emphasizes communication, critical thinking, clinical decision-making, problem-solving, patient advocacy, and ethical practice. Faculty in this department also deliver foundational coursework in:

Medical Surgical Nursing

Medical Surgical Nursing is a broad specialty concerning the comprehensive care of adult and geriatric patients with various acute and chronic medical-surgical conditions. It forms a substantial part of the B.Sc. Nursing curriculum and covers core foundational subjects including Pharmacology and Pathology.

Interactive teaching methodologies include seminars, symposiums, group discussions, clinical care studies, case presentations, and procedure demonstrations.

Clinical Postings & Advanced Specialization

Students gain hands-on clinical exposure across general medical-surgical wards, intensive care units (ICUs), and operating theatres in specialized branches such as:

• Cardiology & Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Neurology & Neurosurgery
• Nephrology & Urology
• Oncology & Radiation Therapy
• ENT, Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery

Community Health Nursing

This specialty prepares students to meet evolving societal health challenges. The course introduces concepts of positive health, disease prevention, and population-based healthcare, focusing on families and vulnerable groups in rural and urban settings.

Community Integration & Fieldwork

Practical experience is provided at the Asansol Community Health Training Centre, Asansol Urban Health Centre, and adopted Panchayat villages in collaboration with the Department of Community Medicine. Key fieldwork activities include:

• Conducting epidemiological investigations, household surveys, and health projects.
• Executing National Health Programmes, mass immunization, and health awareness campaigns.
• Organizing school health programs, home visits, and specialized rural clinics.
• Serving as the vital campus-community link through public health exhibitions and health education.

Obstetric and Gynaecological Nursing

Obstetric and Gynaecological Nursing focuses on the care of women during their childbearing years. The scope includes reproductive and child health (RCH), prenatal care, labor and puerperium management (including conducting normal deliveries), family welfare planning, and gynaecological disease management.

Students train in antenatal/postnatal wards, outpatient clinics, labor rooms, and gynaecological operation theatres under specialized faculty supervision to function as skilled Nurse Midwives.

Child Health Nursing

This specialty focuses on the comprehensive nursing care of children—both healthy and sick. Placed in the third year of the B.Sc. Nursing curriculum, the course prepares students to identify deviations from normal growth and development and deliver specialized pediatric care.

Curriculum emphasis is given to Embryology, Human Genetics, Child Psychology, Pediatric Medicine, Pediatric Surgery, Child Nutrition, and Growth Monitoring.

Clinical Exposure

Clinical rotations take place in pediatric medical wards, pediatric surgical wards, Pediatric ICUs (PICU), Neonatal ICUs (NICU), Pediatric Cardiology, and Adolescent Medicine units equipped with modern monitoring technology.

Psychiatry and Mental Health Nursing

This course develops student understanding of modern concepts in mental health and psychiatric illness. The program equips students to assess psychological needs, formulate nursing diagnoses, and deliver preventive, promotive, curative, and rehabilitative mental health services.

Guided by psychiatric nursing faculty, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, and psychiatric social workers, students gain clinical experience in psychiatric units, supplemented by observational visits to de-addiction centers, rehabilitation facilities, special schools, and residential care homes.