People's Group :: People's College of Nursing & Research Centre

Anatomy and physiology –Question paper will consist of Section A Anatomy of 37 marks and B Physiology should be of 38 marks.
Nutrition and Biochemistry and –Question paper will consist of Section A Nutrition of 45 marks and Section B of Biochemistry of 30 marks.
Pharmacology, genetics, and pathology: Section A of Pharmacology with 38 marks, Section B of Pharmacology of 25 and Genetics with 12 marks.
Nursing Research & Statistics-Nursing Research Should be of 50 marks and Statistics of 25 marks.
Minimum pass mark shall be 40% for English only.
Theory and Practical exams for Introduction to computer to be conducted as College exam and marks to be sent to University for inclusion in the marks sheet.
Minimum pass marks shall be 50% in each of the theory and practical papers separately.
A candidate must have minimum of 80% attendance (irrespective of the kind of absence) in theory and practical in each subject for appearing for examination.
A candidate must have 100% attendance in each of the practical area before award of degree.
A Candidate has to pass in theory and practical exam separately in each of the paper.
If a candidate fails in either theory or practical paper he/she has re-appear for both the papers (Theory and Practical)
Maximum number of attempts permitted for each is 3 including first attempt
A Candidate failing in more then two subjects will not be prompted to the next year.
Candidate shall not be admitted to the subsequent higher examination unless the candidate has passed the previous examination.
The maximum period to complete the course successfully should not exceed 8 years
Maximum number of candidate for practical examination should note exceed 20 per day
All practical examinations must be held in the respective clinical areas.
One internal and one external examiner should jointly conduct practical examination for each student.
An examiner should be a lecture or above in a college of nursing with M. Sc (N) in concerned subject and minimum of 3 year of teaching experience. To be an examiner for nursing foundations faculty having M. Sc (N) with any specialty shall be considered.

M. Sc. (NURSING) SYLLABUS

DURATION OF COURSE shall be two Academic Years.

M. Sc. (Nursing) Part – I

S. N0.	Subject	Theory Hours	Practical Hours
1.	Advanced Clinical Nursing Including Social Psychology and Epidemiology.	150	250
2.	Educational Including Nursing Education & Teaching Methods	200	100
3.	Biostatistics, Research Methods including Nursing Research (Proposal Presentation)	100	150
4	Genetics and Embryology	40	-
5	Introduction to clinical speciality	60	50
	Total	550	550

M. Sc. (Nursing) Part – II

S. N0.	Subject	Theory Hours	Practical Hours
1.	Clinical Speciality	150	500
2.	Management in Nursing Education, Practice including Professional Trends and Issues	200	100
3.	Dissertation	50	150
	Total	400	750

DETAILS OF PAPER

Examination for the award of the degree of M.Sc. Nursing shall be held once a year in the month of April and shall be open to those candidates who have completed their prescribed course of study and thesis approved. The supplementary examination will be held in the month of September. The Examination shall consist of following paper.

FIRST YEAR

Title	Max. Marks	Internal Assessment	Final
Exam Paper I
Advance Nursing & Allied subjects	100	25	75
Paper II
Nursing Education	100	25	75
Paper III
Research & Statistics	100	25	75
Paper IV
Clinical Nursing – I	100	25	75
Total	400

SECOND YEAR

Title	Max. Marks	Internal Assessment	Final
Exam Paper I
Nursing Management	100	25	75
Paper II
Clinical Nursing – II	100	25	75
Paper III
Practical (Clinical Nursing, Thesis viva, Nursing Education & Management)	300	150	150
Total	500

Grand Total	900