Top 10 Nursing Colleges - 2023

Love may not Cure but a Nurse Can

For many years, nursing has been regarded as one of the most trustworthy and honourable professions and nurses are frequently referred as Angels because of their long history of serving patients with personalized highquality care. Over the time, not only the nursing education but also the role of Nurses has been evolved widely when compared to prior a decade or so. They are no longer asked to stay in one particular area of the hospital; rather they are expected to move around to assist in other areas when needed. In order to cope up with the demands of a rapidly changing health care system, nurses are now expected to be more knowledgeable and independent by getting along with latest medical technology and techniques, and should be more comfortable in taking on more advanced tasks and administrative roles.

Though, the nursing education has seen the biggest transformation in the previous decade, the primary goals of this education remains the same that is Nurses must be well prepared to meet diverse patients’ needs and advance science that benefits patients and the capacity of health professionals to deliver safe and quality patient care. However, this needs to be transformed in a number of ways to prepare nursing graduates to work collaboratively and effectively with other health professionals in a complex and evolving health care system across a variety of settings.

Evolved Nursing Education: With a richness of scientific advancement and more autonomy than ever before, nurses are now well prepared and qualified than ever before. This attributes to nothing but the Nursing education that has undergone a wide transformation to strengthen the position of nurses in their careers. While nursing training has become more formal and complicated and more widely available, many colleges are now offering specialty degrees. Schools too have developed more approachable ways to achieve Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degrees as they have become a more common expectation through online programs, flexible scheduling, and even helping with clinical placements. Additionally with digitalization more graduate degrees are now accessible online, making it feasible for ambitious nurse practitioners (NPs) to complete their MSN while maintaining a full-time job and start their own clinic. Today technology coupled with digitalization imparting such options to the nursing profession, which was only an imagination before four to five decades.

This issue of Higher Education Review talks about some of the professionally managed colleges in the country, which has been nurtured with best technical and professional infrastructure and assistance from efficient and skilled faculties ensuring delivery of quality higher education and research. This issue spotlights a list of ‘Top 10 Nursing Colleges – 2023’, the list has been crafted by a team of Industry veterans, CEOs, VCs and the Higher Education Review editorial team.