College of Nursing, Ludhiana Infrastructure: Library, Labs, Auditorium, Cafeteria & Other Facilities

Ayesha Taneem

Infrastructure :-

College of nursing has a separate building and is situated near to its parent hospital having adequate space to meet the learning needs of students. Adjacent to it is the hostel where graduate and diploma students and staffs (females) are accommodated separate hostel facility is available for the postgraduate students. Total covered area of the building is meters.

Teaching Block : Comprises of specious class rooms, labs, offices, the library, the common room and a recreation room.

• Community Health Nursing Class Room / Lab
• Obstetrics and Gynecology Class Room / Lab
• Medical – Surgical Nursing Class Room / Lab
• Psychiatric Nursing Class Room / Lab
• Paediatric Nursing Class Room / Lab
• Separate Lecture Room for GNM, BSc and MSc (N) Students
• Foundations of Nursing / Demonstration Room
• Nutrition Lab
• Computer laboratory / Cell
• Common Room
• Principal’s Office
• Vice Principal’s Office
• Staff Room / Record Room
• Offices for Senior and Junior Faculty
• Store Rooms
• Toilets : Separate for Staff and Students
• Drinking Water (water coolers for clean drinking water are installed in both floors)  

Class Rooms

There are adequate classrooms with the capacity of accommodating all the students admitted in each class. The rooms are well ventilated and properly lighted. Each classroom is having students chair, black chalk boards/ white boards lecture stand, table and chair for teachers.           

Laboratories

College of Nursing has the following laboratories, demonstration room and project room :

• Nursing Foundation
• Community Health Nursing
• Nutrition Lab
• Computer laboratory with 10 computers  

Multipurpose Hall

College is having a common room and was the institutional auditorium whenever required. There is a recreation room that is used for social get-togethers / parties etc.        

Library

College has a separate library having enough space and could accommodate more than 60 students at a time. There is proper lighting and ventilation. Books and journals are displayed in open racks and glass door cupboards and are arranged subject wise to facilitate easy referring of books. A book, magazines, journals, newspaper and other literature is properly and safely stored. Library is equipped with Staff table accommodating nearly 15 persons, Separate cabin cum counter for librarians, Computer, Television & V.C.R.               

Principal’s Office

There is a separate office for the principal with attached toilet and provision room. There is a facility for independent telephone and interconnection to the hospital and hostel and a computer with interned facility.                

Offices for the faculty Members

There are 7 teachers room accommodating 2 teachers in each room. spacious staff room is also available where 6-8 teachers could be accommodated at a time. Separate toilet facility is available for the teaching faculty. There are separate rooms for the office staff and records. Office has a Xerox, Fax and computers with internet are available for communication and documentation purposes.    

Record Room

College is having one record room equipped with steel and wooden racks and tables for proper storage of records and documents / paper important for the college.     

Store Room

College has two store rooms for storage of stationary and other equipments.     

Other Facilities

College has lush green lawns & gardens with variety of ornamental plants and seasonal flowers. An open ground is also available for conducting sports, and other open stage programmes within the safe premises of the College Campus. Separate toilet facilities are available for both gents and ladies in each floor college is having own thirty two seater bus for transportation of students to the areas for field experience in Community Health Nursing. College is equipped with fire extinguishers and other safety and security measures.  

Hostel

Nurses hostel is a three-storied building and students are accommodated in partially furnished single and double rooms. At the reception there is an office for warden and two visiting rooms where relatives and visitors are permitted to meet their wards. There is one spacious dining hall where meals are served. There is one kitchen and store adjacent to it. All efforts are made to provide hygienically prepared balanced meals to the students at a reasonable cost. Hostel has a recreation room with television. Students spend their leisure time watching the T.V. and playing indoor/ outdoor games. Hostel has a lawn and a ground where students can play throw ball, badminton, kho kho, and have morning/ evening strolls.

Clinical Facilities :-

College is attached to a 657 bedded hospital for providing practical experience to the students. The hospital is a multi specialty, multi dimensional health care agency and state of the art trauma care centre with outpatient departments, causality, operating theatres, intensive care and cardiac care units, central sterile supply department etc.

Variety of patients of all age groups and with different health needs come to the hospital in all the clinical areas. Students are posted in these areas for practical learning experiences: -

• Medical Wards
• Surgical Wards
• Obstetric & Gynecology Areas
• Pediatrics
• Psychiatry
• Orthopaedics
• Eye Department
• ENT Department
• Out Patient Departments
• Oncology : Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy Units
• Emergency and Trauma Care Centre
• Intensive Care Unit
• Intensive Cardiac Care Unit
• Cardiothoracic Unit
• Operation Theatres and Recovery Room
• Nursery / Intensive Neonatal Care Unit
• Neuro Surgery ICU
• Nephrology
• Burns and Plastic Surgery Units

Students get rich Community Health Nursing experience during their posting in Urban & Rural Community Health Centres, Camps, Slums etc.

Students are posted at other institutions for their field experience in Psychiatry & Mental Health, Obstetric and Medical Surgical Nursing Specialties : -

• Nur Manzil Psychiatric Institution, Lucknow
• Sptephen’s Hospital, New Delhi/ General Hospital, Chandigarh
• Christian Medical College, Vellore TN (M.Sc. Nsg.)
• Tata Memorial Hospital, Bombay/ Cardiac Care Centers (M.Sc. Nsg.)
• Indore (M.Sc. Nsg.)
• Banglore (M.Sc. Nsg.)