The Higher Education Review

Nursing education today is developing equivalent to doctors Medical education and the need for qualified and skilled nurses are very high in today’s world. Gone are the days when there were fewer nurses catering to more patients. In today’s scenario, the focus of quality care and treatment focuses where nurses cater less number of patients which helps them concentrate more on their treatment protocols.

Today, Nursing education has developed its own reforms in tandem with higher education and with other health professional educations. These reforms lead nursing to the values of environmental health in policy, nursing research, education, practice, modern technologies, and services. Nurses are now involved in research activities, professional journals, and more articles on environmental health.

Located in a serene place in the foothills of the Westernghats, Kongunadu Nursing College was established in the year 2008 with the ideology of bringing quality nursing students with excellence in theoretical and practical training at the most affordable cost incurred during the training with modern technology update.

Having 1 Lakh square feet of built-up area, it’s a Green campus with good natural lighting in all classrooms which are equipped with comfortable tables and chairs and audible speaker and mic systems, and smart boards, the campus is Wi-Fi enabled which helps students get information from the internet. The campus is located with a state-of-the-art library which has both offline and online books and journal accesses for learning of students.

Education Beyond Books
The current scenario of higher education in India is very good, Indian healthcare training and

practical environments are very much evolving at a very high pace and bracing with the western countries. At Kongunadu Nursing College, students are offered various Nursing streams like ANM's , B.Sc, M.Sc, and Post Basic B.Sc courses. Kongunadu College of Nursing is updated with all Smart Teaching Facilities that help nursing students understand complex medical concepts in a much easier manner.

The teaching does not end inside closed classrooms but also needs a practical environment where they can see in practice what they read in books, hence, the college has its own parent hospital which is a 375 bedded multi-specialty hospital having all departments and all investigating modalities under one roof.

Kongunadu hospitals is a very popular and earned very good name in the part of the country and it is having very busy out patient service and nearly 100% occupancy in the inpatient services and students have opportunity to see Varieties of cases procedures and treatments.


Er. Arthi Viswanathan, Administrative Trustee

Other major facilities like Modern Digital Classrooms with Android Smart TVs, Modern Laboratories, Anatomy Museum, a Digital & Advanced Library, Auditorium with LED Wall, Multi-Specialty Parent Hospital Support, Hostel Facilities, Sports & Games, International Standards with Synthetic Kabadi Ground, Volley Ball Ground, Basket Ball Ground, Foot Ball Ground and much more.

Also students are given opportunities to engage into patient awareness exhibitions, rallies, walkathons and also given opportunity to present in various national nursing conferences and also attend quiz”, Programme under the guidance of Er. Arthi Viswanathan, Administrative Trustee.

Ready for Future
Kongunadu College of Nursing is having well experienced knowledgeable and enthusiastic dedicated principal with more than 30 years of experience. The college is situated in the foot of Westernghat hills and in a peaceful green environment spread in 8 acres of land.
The college is having a very good standard norms in the structure both academic and hostel blocks. The college is having very good standard play grounds for various games.

In short Kongunadu Nursing college in to best study environment with best infrastructure with best teaching facilities with best management in the field of nursing. The faculties are evaluated from time to time and are made mandatory to attend Continued Nursing Education (CNE) programs to keep themselves braced with the current training modalities to teach all nursing students with the intention to bring the best in everyone. The college is supportive of all students from every background. “We also recognize first graduate scholarships and SC/ST scholarship, which has helped various students in joining and comfortably continuing the course, also under Kongunattu Arakattalai Trust, the college has been waiving students course fees when they are coming from a poor family”, says Er. Arthi Viswanathan, Administrative Trustee.

Kongunadu College’s students get job opportunities in their own multi-specialty hospital and also tutor opportunities in their own college, students after completing UG degree courses also have options to join PG degree courses in the college at a subsidized fees structure. To add to it, all students passing out of college have got 100 percent placement in all PAN India hospitals and also abroad.

“The road map ahead for Kongunadu College of Nursing is to give all our students the best opportunities in nursing education and bringing quality teaching faculties and giving the best atmosphere for the students to train themselves in not becoming an ordinary nurse but an extra-ordinary one”, signs off Dr. P. Raju. MS., Managing Trustee.