M.Sc. Nursing

M.Sc. Nursing is the postgraduate degree in nursing. It runs two years, and it is the qualification nursing colleges look for when they hire teaching faculty. INC’s own staffing norms for a college of nursing are built around M.Sc.-qualified teachers.

Three things have to be true before you can apply. You must be registered as a nurse and midwife with a State Nursing Registration Council. You must hold B.Sc. Nursing, B.Sc. (Hons.) Nursing or P.B. B.Sc. Nursing with at least 55%. And you need a year of work experience.

The experience rule is kinder than it sounds if you came the long way round. If you did Basic B.Sc. Nursing straight from school, the year has to come after your degree. If you came through P.B. B.Sc. Nursing, INC lets the year fall either before or after, and since P.B. B.Sc. already requires you to be a registered, working nurse, you have almost certainly served it already.

So the full ladder from Class 12 looks like this: GNM, then registration and work, then P.B. B.Sc. Nursing, then M.Sc. Nursing, with the experience requirement met along the way rather than added at the end.

Where it leads is teaching, college administration and the senior clinical and supervisory posts that ask for a postgraduate qualification.