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ANM Syllabus

July 20, 2019

Check ANM Syllabus 2019 here. ANM stands for Auxillary Nursing and Midwifery. Moreover, it is a 2-year diploma course. In addition, this time span includes a compulsory 6 months internship. In general, the main aim of this course is to prepare interested candidates to function in accordance with the Healthcare needs of the Community. Moreover, in this article, you will find all the details related to ANM Syllabus including ANM Course Subjects as well as ANM Exam Scheme. In addition, you will further find ANM Nursing Admission Eligibility Criteria along with ANM Internship schedule. However, in order to get a more detailed account on the syllabus of 1st year ANM and syllabus of 2nd year ANM, continue reading.

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The Framework of ANM Module Syllabus

ANM stands for Auxillary and Nursing Midwifery. ANM is a 2 year ( 18 months + 6 months internship) diploma course. It comes under the category of Paramedical Field of Education. Moreover, the courses prepare the students to address the health needs of our country as well as serve in the medical field, thus showcasing humanity.

The following is the overall framework of the ANM Courses as well as ANM Syllabus. However, those who seek admission in such courses must go through the following details.

The following table consists of all the important events along with their Time Period as well. Moreover, the given table will further provide you the Examination as well ass the Holidays schedule of ANM Nursing Admission 2019 for 1st as well as 2nd Year.

Events	Time Period
First Year
Total Weeks	52 weeks
Vacation	4 weeks
Gazetted Holiday	2 weeks
Preparatory Holidays and Examination	3 weeks
Teaching hours in Weeks	43 weeks
Total Teaching Hours	43 weeks x 40 hours/week = 1720 hours
Second Year (Including Internship)
Total Weeks	52 weeks
Vacation	4 weeks
Gazetted Holiday	2 weeks
Preparatory Holidays and Examination	2 weeks
Teaching hours in Weeks	44 weeks
Total Teaching Hours	44 weeks x 40 hours/week = 1760 hours

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Subjects of ANM Nursing Course

The subjects pursued by the students in the ANM Nursing Course are given below. However, this may vary from college to college. But the standard ANM Syllabus set by the Indian Nursing Council will remain same. However, there may still be minor variations in the curriculum of the ANM Nursing Admission in 2019.

Community Health Nursing
Health Promotion
Primary Healthcare Nursing
Child Health Nursing
Midwifery
Health Center Management

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Syllabus of ANM Nursing Admission Module 2019

Following is the list of the subjects one needs to study after taking admission in ANM Nursing 2019. Therefore, one needs to know all the details regarding the ANM Syllabus before taking admission.

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Syllabus of 1st Year ANM 2019:

SNo.	ANM Nursing Syllabus- 1st Year
1.	Community Health Nursing
2.	Health Promotion
3.	Primary Health Care Nursing (Prevention of diseases and Restoration of Health)
4.	Child Health Nursing

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Syllabus of 2nd Year ANM 2019:

SNo.	ANM Nursing Syllabus- 2nd Year
1.	Midwifery
2.	Health Care Management

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ANM Nursing Admission 2019 Eligibility Criteria

ANM Nursing Eligibility Criteria 2019 is provided below. One needs to make sure that they fulfill the selection criteria in order to take ANM Nursing Admission 2019. However, failing to do so will result in disqualification of your application. Moreover, to check the eligibility criteria before filling the Auxillary Nursing Registration Form 2019. In order to ease your efforts here, we have provided the basic selection criteria for ANM Admission. Go through it very carefully.

Age Restrictions:

In order to take ANM Admission, the minimum age requirement is 17 years on or before 31st December of the year in which the admission is sought.
Whereas, the maximum age shall be 35 years.

Educational Qualifications:

The minimum educational requirement shall be passing of 12 years of schooling ( 10+2 year course ) recognized by CBSE/ ICSE/ SSSCE/ HSCE or a recognized equivalent examination.

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Course Of Study

For all the students who are seeking admission in Auxillary Nursing And Midwifery or are already enrolled in this course, it’s important to be well aware regarding all the details of the same. Therefore, here we have provided Subjects, Time Period, Theory and Practical, Internship related details in a tabulated form. Hence, all the students are advised to go through the following details very carefully. Furthermore, keeping all these in mind make your decision wisely.

First Year:

SNo.	Nursing Course	Classroom Hours			Experience
	Course Title and Description	Theory	Demonstration	Total	Hospital	Community	Total
1.	Community Health Nursing	120	50	170	10	100	110
2.	Health Promotion	120	75	195	20	180	200
	A. Nutrition	35	20	55
	B. Human Body and Hygiene	35	20	55
	C. Environmental Sanitation	20	15	35
	D. Mental Health	30	10	40
3.	Primary Health Care Nursing – I	130	150	280	90	300	390
	A. Infection and Immunization	25	20	45
	B. Communicable Diseases	40	25	65
	C. Community Health Problems	30	50	80
	D. Primary Medical Care	20	20	40
	E. First Aid and Referral	25	35	60
4.	Child Health Nursing	75	110	185	80	100	180
	Total Hours	455	385	835	200	680	880

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Total = 1720 Hours

Second Year ( first six months ):

SNo.	Nursing Course	Classroom Hours			Experience
	Course Title and Description	Theory	Demonstration	Total	Hospital	Community	Total
1.	Midwifery	200	160	360	220	160	380
2.	Health Centre and Management	40	40	80		60	60
	Total Hours	240	200	440	220	220	440

Total Hours = 880

Second Year ( Internship Period ):

SNo.	Nursing Course	Experience
	Course Title and Description	Hospital	Community	Total
1.	Midwifery	240	240	480
	Antenatal Ward	40
	Intranatal/ Labour room	120
	Postnatal Ward	40
	Neonatal Care Unit	40
2.	Child Health	80	160	240
3.	Community Health and Health Center Management		160	160
	Total Hours			880

Total = 880 hours in the internship period

Grand Total = 1760 Hours

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Guidelines for Internship

Firstly, the ANM students (in a group of 4-5) should be posted in the subcenter/primary health center with a regular ANM for one month/ 4 weeks. This will further provide supervised independent practice in the community.
In addition, the students should definitely participate in all the National Health and Family Welfare programs during their clinical experience.
Moreover, at least 80% of all the clinical requirements should be completed before appearing for the final (Second year) examination.
Furthermore, the principal of the ANM school should certify for each student. Therefore, the certificate will further notice that one has successfully done the internship program. This will further include 100% clinical requirements as well as acquired the competencies as listed in the syllabus. Thereafter, the award of the certificate is given by the State Nursing Councils or examination boards to the student.
Moreover, the casebook and competency record book should be completed and signed by the competent authority of the school.

ANM Exam Scheme

Below is the ANM Exam Scheme for the students appearing for the internal as well as external exams. Moreover, the contents of the following table include Paper name, Subject, Maximum Marks and Exam duration. Furthermore, the details are given for both 1st as well as 2nd Year examinations. In order to get a detailed account on ANM Nursing Syllabus go through the table given below carefully.

Theory and Practical Examinations at the end of the First Year.

Paper	Course	External Assessment	Internal Assessment	Duration
Theory Paper I	Community Health Nursing	75	25	3 hours
Theory Paper II	Health Promotion	75	25
Theory Paper III	Primary Health Care Nursing	75	25
Theory Paper IV	Child Health Nursing	75	25
Practical Paper I	Community Health Nursing and Health Promotion	100	100
Practical Paper II	Child Health Nursing	100	100
	Total	500	300

Grand Total for First Year = 800

Theory and Practical Examinations at the end of the Second Year.

Paper	Course	External Assessment	Internal Assessment	Duration
Theory Paper V	Midwifery	75	25	3 hours
Theory Paper VI	Health Center Management	75	25
Practical III	Midwifery	100	100
Practical IV	Primary Health Care and Health Center Management	100	100
	Total	350	250

Grand Total for Second Year = 600

Venue For Practical Examinations

Firstly, in case the District Hospital is not having School or College of Nursing attached to the District Hospital then the practical examination of 2nd year ANM students shall be conducted at District Hospital.
Moreover, the examination of all the ANM Schools whether Government or Private shall be conducted in the respective district hospital.
However, if a large number of private Schools exist in the District, thereafter the examination board should make arrangements accordingly in order to provide enough centers to cover all the students.

Midwifery

Expected Competency	Hospital Experiences	Community Experiences
Assessment and care of a normal pregnant woman	Detecting pregnancy using a pregnancy testing kit. Registration of antenatal mothers. Preconception counselling. Measuring the blood pressure, pulse, and fetal heart rate, checking for pallor and edema and determining the fundal height, fetal lie and presentation accurately. Hemoglobin estimation and testing urine for protein and sugar. Examine 20 antenatal women ( in the hospital and community ) Provide IFA supplements and administer TT injections to 10 women.	Registration and management of vital events registers. Conduct antenatal examinations at home. Participate in antenatal clinics in the sub-center. Malaria testing pregnant mothers. Counselling on birth preparedness, complication readiness, diet and rest, infant feeding, sex during pregnancy, domestic violence and contraception.
Conduct normal delivery. Recognize different degrees of tears and give emergency care and refer.	Maintain midwifery casebook. Conduction of pelvic assessment to determine pelvic adequacy. PV examination 5. Plotting the partograph and deciding when to refer the women. Conduction of 10 safe deliveries ( in the hospital and community), with active management of the third stage of labour, using infection prevention practices. Assist in the suturing of 5 episiotomies and tears.	Conduct deliveries in the community (in health centers preferably and home)
Assessment and care of postnatal mothers and newborns.	Provide essential care to the newborn 10. Basic resuscitation of the newborn 5. Managing/ Counselling on post-partum care and nutrition. Counselling/ supporting of mothers for breastfeeding and preventing and managing breastfeeding problems. Counselling for kangaroo mother care. Care of postnatal mothers 10 ( in the hospital and community ) Conduct health education for mothers and individuals – 3 each. Follow infection prevention and biomedical waste management in the labor room and subcenter.	Follow up of 10 postnatal mothers for 10 days with at least 3 home visits. Care of newborns at home- 10. Conduct health education for groups of mothers and individuals- 2 each. Integrate the accepted practices of AYUSH.
Assessing and referring mothers at risk.	Identify high-risk mothers and give care. Prepare for caesarean sections- 2 Observe caesarean sections- 2 Prepare for MTP and observe the procedure- 2 Take care of women with abortion- 2 Insert an intravenous line. Insert a urinary catheter in women. Preparation and administration of magnesium sulphate injection. Preparation and administration of oxytocin drip. Bimanual compression of the uterus for the management of PPH. Care of mother with HIV Digital removal of retained products of conception for incomplete abortion. Provide post-abortion care.	Do a case study of complicated childbirth in a village. Conduct a village meeting for emergency transport for women at risk. Identify and refer women with an unwanted pregnancy for MTP Interview any 10 women and list reasons for unsafe motherhood and abortion Identify high-risk mothers (any 5) and newborns 5 and refer them to the higher centers.
Counsel eligible couples about different methods of contraception Prepare acceptors for sterilization and IUCDs The detection of cervical cancer.	Counselling of mothers/ couples for family planning Prepare and assist for sterilization of 5 female and 2 male cases (in hospital and community) Insertion of intrauterine devices and prescription of contraception of contraceptives Perform 2 IUCDs insertions (in the hospital or the community) Distribute oral pills- 5 Demonstrate the use of condoms and distribute condoms- 5 Visual inspection of the cervix and taking a pap smear test- 2	Counsel eligible couples on different methods of contraception Perform 2 IUCDs insertions ( in the hospital or the community) Distribute oral pills- 5 Demonstrate the use of condoms and distribute condoms- 5 Visual inspection of the cervix and taking a pap smear test- 2

Clinical Requirements To Be Completed During The Internship Period

Expected Competency	Hospital and Community Experiences
Assessment and care of a normal pregnant woman.	Examine 15 antenatal women (in the hospital and the community)
Conduct normal delivery Recognize different degrees of tears and give emergency care and refer.	Conducting pelvic assessment to determine pelvic adequacy. PV examination 5. Conduction of 10 safe deliveries ( in the hospital and community), with active management of the third stage of labor, using infection prevention practices. Assist in the suturing of 5 episiotomies and tears
Assessment and care of postnatal mothers and newborns.	Provide essential care to the newborn 10. Basic resuscitation of the newborn 5. Care of postnatal mothers 10 ( in the hospital and community )
Assessing and referring mothers at risk.	Take care of women with abortion- 2
Counsel eligible couples about different methods of contraception Prepare acceptors for sterilization and IUCDs The detection of cervical cancer.	Prepare and assist for sterilization of 5 female and 2 male cases (in hospital and community) Perform 2 IUCDs insertions (in the hospital or the community) Distribute oral pills- 5 Demonstrate the use of condoms and distribute condoms- 5
Management of sick neonates and children (IMNCI)	Assessment and care of 5 sick neonates and 5 sick children as per the IMNCI protocols.

Clinical Requirements To Be Completed During The 2nd Year

Competency	1st 6 months of the 2nd Year	Internship	Total during 2nd Year
ANC	20 (hospital + community)	15(hospital + community)	35(hospital + community)
Conducting normal deliveries with AMTSL	10(hospital + community)	10(hospital + community)	20(hospital + community)
Assist suturing of episiotomy or tears	5	5	10
Care of newborn	10	10	20
Basic resusc. of normal newborn	5	5	10
P/V Examination	5	5	10
Postnatal cases	10(hospital + community)	10(hospital + community)	20(hospital + community)
Management of sick neonates and children (INCI)	–	5+5	5+5
IUCD Insertions	2	3	5

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