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INC Nurses Registration and Tracking System Attention of Nurses Invited The immediate attention of those nurses who have registered (self) in the Nurses Registration & Tracking System (NRTS) at nrts.indiannursingcouncil.gov.in is invited that, their Aadhar based biometric authentication will be done at respective State Nursing Councils. For this State Nursing Councils need to be contacted for a prior appointment. Till the appointment is taken, No Nurse should directly visit State Nursing Council for this purpose.If any clarification/errors you encounter with respect to NRTS, you are requested to submit the same by clicking on the button "HELPDESK". Objectives of Nurses Registration & Tracking System 1 Free Enrolment of Nurses- Hassel free registrations and Linked with Aadhar- Biometric Authentication 2 Simplified Registration and has integrated uniform system across the county 3 Candidates getting NUID Card will get the incentive of 30 hours of CNE for the first time 4 Empower Nurses with National Unique Identity Number (NUID) 5 Facilitate for effective manpower planning for policy makers at State and National Level. 6 Uniform issuance of Nurse Passbook comprising of complete history of Nurse Midwifery. 7 Renewal of licence once in five years linked with 150 hours of Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) Clickhere to apply

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Be the First to Know Get Access to Latest Updates Subscribe Now The Indian Nursing Council, abbreviated as INC, is a national regulatory body for the nursing education in India. This autonomous body comes under the administration of of the Ministry of Health and Famity Welfare, Government of India (GOI). INC was enacted by Parliament under the Indian Nursing Council Act of 1947 to give it statutory powers to regulate and maintain uniform standards of the Let’s discuss the roles of INC in detail below. Objectives and Roles of Indian Nursing Council (INC) • Recognising the qualification/s of the INC Act, 1947 under section 10(2)(4) for the purpose of employment and registration in India, as well as abroad. • Monitoring and establishing uniform standards of nursing education for auxiliary nurse midwives, health visitors, nurse midwives by conducting inspections of different institutions. • Prescribing minimum education and training standards in different nursing programmes along with regulations and syllabus under section 19 of the INC Act, 1947. • Indian Nursing Council holds the power of withdrawing the recognition of an institution under Section 14 of the INC Act, 1947. This happens if a State Council recgonised institute fails to meet or maintain its standards as prescribed under Section 14(1)(b) of the INC Act. • The council is responsible to provide recognition to a Degree/ Certificate/ Diploma awarded by Foreign Universities. • Under Section 11(2)(a) of the INC Act, 19...

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has decided to repeal the existing Indian Nursing Council Act and replace it with the National Nursing and Midwifery Commission BiIl, 2020. The draft of the Bill, which has been circulated, aims to replace the largely autonomous Indian Nursing Council with a government-appointed body. Comments and recommendations for the Bill must reach the ministry before December 6. As the Indian Nursing Council Act was passed in 1947, many in the profession were hoping that a new Bill would address the changes in the profession. The draft Bill, however, is mostly concerned about nursing colleges and teaching institutes. “It’s been more than 70 years since the Indian Nursing Council Act was passed, so a lot changes have happened. In that way the Draft Nursing Bill is welcome because in 1947, the nursing education in this country was in a primitive stage and this is a much-needed revision in terms of education,” said Professor Roy K George, president of the Trained Nurses Association of India. One of the main drawbacks of the Indian Nursing Council Act was that it covered only the educational aspect of nursing. There were no norms for service and patient care. There are no fixed details of the nurse to patient ratio, staffing norms and salaries. The new draft Bill does not address these concerns either. Those in the profession have been advocating the inclusion of the working condition of nurses. “The draft Bill has nothing on that front and that ...

The Ministry of Health has alerted the public of a fake notification that is doing the rounds, in which the Indian Nursing Council has seemingly announced that nursing candidates would be considered equal to MBBS graduates. The fake circular said that nurses would henceforth be referred to as Nursing Officers and could potentially be considered as junior doctors in future. This document is seen to be circulating on some social media platforms. This is a FAKE document. Please do not share it further. In its tweet, the Health Ministry said: “This document is seen to be circulating on some social media platforms. This is a FAKE document. Please do not share it further.” The document used the Indian Nursing Council letterhead with the signature of INC Secretary Lt Col (Dr) Sarvjeet Kaur, but the body text was edited to deceive readers.