The Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing and Nursing Foundation aims to offer comprehensive training to undergraduate and postgraduate students based on the philosophy that students need to be well informed not only in knowledge and skills in basic and advanced nursing procedures but also in the upcoming scientific advances in different areas of clinical practices to enable them to face new challenges and opportunities in various health care settings. This will allow the student to attain competent skills in inpatient care. The department also gives practical training to undergraduate students in the laboratory under simulated conditions before performing in actual hospital settings.
The college has a well-equipped Nursing Foundation and Medical-surgical nursing lab, which are spacious and well-furnished with advanced mannequins that act as a simulator for practicing basic nursing procedures. A new OSCE lab has been set up with advanced types of equipment like ECG and arrhythmia simulator, defibrillator, and crash Kelly which will help the students to get simulated learning experience in Critical care nursing. The students also get hands-on experience in the Central Skill lab of Nitte University: NU-MEDISIM through simulated clinical experiences and high-fidelity manikins.
The students are given the best clinical exposure at Justice. K.S.Hegde Hospital in all specialty areas. Second-year P.G. students are sent to specialty hospitals like Narayana Hrudayalaya, NIMHANS Bangalore, and B.M. Birla Institute of Cardiology and Research Center Kolkata.