Growth, Challenges and Opportunities in Indian Nursing.

In India, nurses and midwives make up more than 30% of the national healthcare workforce (World Health Organisation, 2016). The country has also witnessed a phenomenal growth in the uptake of nursing education with an increase during the last eight years of Graduate nursing schools; 285 to 3215, BSc colleges; 30 to 1936, and MSc nursing colleges; 10 to 643 (Indian Nursing Council, 2019). Many of the BSc and MSc colleges are now moving to health universities and deemed institutes. Academic nursing is also developing apace and the University Grant Commission (UGC) of India now requires that university lecturers must hold, as a minimum, a master's degree in their subject and preferable a PhD. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.