Facilitys

1. Class rooms
There should be at least three classrooms with the capacity of accommodating the number of students admitted in each class. The rooms should be well ventilated with proper lighting system. There should be built in White Boards. Also there should be a desk/ dais/a big table and a chair for the teacher and racks/cupboards for keeping teaching aids or any other equipment needed for the conduct of classes.

2. Laboratories

a) Nursing Practice Laboratory: There should be demonstration beds with dummies, mannequins in proportion to the number of students practicing a nursing procedure at a given point of time (the desired ratio being 1 bed: 6 practicing students). It should be fully equipped with built-in-cupboards and racks. Wash-basins with running water supply, electric fitting, adequate furniture like table, chairs, stools, patient lockers footsteps etc. Sufficient Necessary inventory articles should be there i.e. at least 10-12 sets of all items needed for the practice of nursing procedure by the students.

b) Community Practice & Nutrition Laboratory: It should have all required articles needed for practicing nursing procedures in a community set-up. The laboratory should give appearance of that of a rural setting, with community maps, records put up on display & cupboards. It should also have facilities for imparting basic knowledge of various methods of cooking for the healthy as well as for the sick. The furnishing and equipment should include work-tables, cooking cutlery, trays, plates, dietetic scales, cooking utensils, microwave, racks/ shelves, refrigerator, pressure cookers, mixie and cupboards for storage of food items. The food items shall be purchased for the conduct of practical classes as and when required. Sets of crockery and cutlery for preparation, napkins for serving and display of food also should be there.

c) Computer Laboratory: It can be shared with other departments. 

d) OBG &Pediatric Laboratory: Laboratory should have equipment and articles as mentioned in laboratory equipments and articles.

e) Advance Nursing Skill Laboratory: There should be simulators used teach, practice & learn advance skills e.g., administration of tube- feeding, tracheostomy, gastrostomy etc. I/V injection, BLS, newborn resuscitation model, etc. The lab should have computers, internet connection, monitor used in Critical Care Units. 

f) Pre-clinical Science lab: It is the laboratory of Biochemistry, Anatomy, and Microbiology. The laboratory articles mentioned in the laboratory equipment & articles shall be available.

3. Multipurpose Hall

It can be utilized for hosting functions of the college, educational conferences/ workshops, CNES examinations etc. It should have proper stage with green room facilities. It should be well –ventilated and have proper lighting system. There should be arrangements for the use of all kinds of basic and advanced audio-visual aids.

4. Library

There should be a separate library in the school. It should be easily accessible to the teaching faculty and the students, during school hours and extended hours also. It should have comfortable seating arrangements for half of the total strength of the students and teachers in the school. There should be separate budget for the library. The library committee should meet regularly for keeping the library updated with current books, journals and other literature. Internet facility should be provided in the library. The library should have proper lighting facilities and it should be well-ventilated. It should have a cabin for librarian with intercom phone facility. There should be sufficient number of cupboards, books shelves and racks with glass doors for proper and safe storage of books, magazines, journals, newspapers and other literature. There should be provision for cataloguecabinets, racks for student bags etc., book display racks, bulletin boards and stationery items like index cards, borrowers cards, labels and registers. Current books, magazines, journals, newspaper and other literature should be available in the library. A minimum of 500 of different subject titled nursing books (all new editions), in the multiple of editions, 3 kinds of nursing journals, 3 kinds of magazines, 2 kinds of newspapers and other kinds of current health related literature should be available in the library. There should be a separate record room with steel racks, built-in shelves and racks, cupboards and filing cabinets for proper storage of records and other important papers/ documents belonging to the college.

5. Other Facilities

Safe drinking water and adequate sanitary/toilet facilities should be available for both men and women separately in the school. Toilet facility to the students should be there along with hand washing facility.

6. Transport
School should have separate transport facility under the control of the Principal. 25 and 50 seats bus is preferable and number of transport shall be as per students strength.