Divine Institute of Nursing, Balrampur: Admission, Courses, Fees, Placements

Divine Institute of Nursing Balrampur is one of the well known Nursing education institution situated in Wadraf Nagar Balrampur Chhattisgar created in the year 2012. The nursing institute, having a huge campus of 18.58 acres, is recognized by the Indian Nursing Council (INC). It is a small institute with a total student strength of 19 and a faculty of 17 depending with the institute making it easy to have personal training. Divine Institute of Nursing provides two specialized nursing programs: Basic B.Sc Nursing and Post Basic B.Sc Nursing besides General Nursing and Midwifery (GNM) to meet the need of would-be health care persons.

In this regard, the institute is equipped with numbers of modern facility that are helpful to attract its students. With a seating capacity of over 400, with state of the art facilities the university’s auditorium is also used for conferences, workshops and seminars. The institute has the separate hostel accommodation of boys’ as well as girls’ hostel;точка The Boys Hostel and Girls Hostel consists of well furnished, spacious and airy rooms with attached baths and arrangement of hygienic mess for 24 hours. The central library has collected more than ten thousand books on different subjects in medical and allied health science, Indian and foreign standard journal. Enhanced Nursing Foundation course and Medical Surgical Nursing course have syndicated Practice Laboratories, in which the students can monitor their practical skills. The institute also has a computer laboratory and gives access to different online journals to improve students’ research skill. 

Divine Institute of Nursing offers two full-time nursing courses: They offer B.Sc Nursing (4 years), General Nursing and Midwifery (GNM) and courses for 3 years duration. Intake capacity for the GNM program is formally set at 30 whereas the intake capacity for B.Sc Nursing is not well defined. These program aims at providing students with a sound knowledge and skills required in nursing in order to produce competent health care professionals. The institute’s emphasis on practicals is clearly reflected by its proximity to the 100 bedded Civil Hospital Wadrafnagar Balrampur, only 3 KM away from the college, the students get ready clinical exposure. 

Admission into Divine Institute of Nursing is therefore mainly through testing and examinations. To apply for B.Sc Nursing course the candidates are expected to take the Pre-Nursing Test (PNT) / National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NET). NEET result is recognized as the basis for admission to the institute’s nursing courses, coming in line with medical and allied health education introduced throughout the country. The institute must have provisions that include scholarships for students getting different types of scholarship information. The Divine Institute of Nursing has the aim of providing trained nurses, nurses’ aides, technicians, and other health care specialist to this part of the country and to the country at large to meet the growing need of health care facilities in Chhattisgarh and the entire nation.