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    The document outlines the roles and responsibilities of a Principal of a School of Nursing or College of Nursing. The Principal serves as the administrative head and is responsible for overseeing the smooth implementation of the nursing curriculum, conducting student admissions and interviews, maintaining student records, arranging clinical experiences, guiding exam preparations, encouraging professional development of faculty, and representing the institution. Key duties include administrative tasks like managing budgets, facilities, and staff, as well as ensuring high quality nursing education, effective teaching, and achievement of program objectives.

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    The document outlines the roles and responsibilities of a Principal of a School of Nursing or College of Nursing. The Principal serves as the administrative head and is responsible for overseeing the smooth implementation of the nursing curriculum, conducting student admissions and interviews, maintaining student records, arranging clinical experiences, guiding exam preparations, encouraging professional development of faculty, and representing the institution. Key duties include administrative tasks like managing budgets, facilities, and staff, as well as ensuring high quality nursing education, effective teaching, and achievement of program objectives.

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    The document outlines the roles and responsibilities of a Principal of a School of Nursing or College of Nursing. The Principal serves as the administrative head and is responsible for overseeing the smooth implementation of the nursing curriculum, conducting student admissions and interviews, maintaining student records, arranging clinical experiences, guiding exam preparations, encouraging professional development of faculty, and representing the institution. Key duties include administrative tasks like managing budgets, facilities, and staff, as well as ensuring high quality nursing education, effective teaching, and achievement of program objectives.

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    Principal

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    The document outlines the roles and responsibilities of a Principal of a School of Nursing or College of Nursing. The Principal serves as the administrative head and is responsible for overseeing the smooth implementation of the nursing curriculum, conducting student admissions and interviews, maintaining student records, arranging clinical experiences, guiding exam preparations, encouraging professional development of faculty, and representing the institution. Key duties include administrative tasks like managing budgets, facilities, and staff, as well as ensuring high quality nursing education, effective teaching, and achievement of program objectives.

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    Principal, School of Nursing and Principal, College of Nursing

    1. Title: Principal, School of General Nursing/ Midwifery or Psychiatry

    Educational qualifications and Experience


    General: As prescribed for staff Nurse. Professional: Master degree in Nursing recognized by Indian Nursing Council. 0r BSc Nursing (Post Certificate) Registration: Registered with Karnataka State Nursing Council. Experience: Should have teaching experience in school of nursing not less than 5 years.

    Standard Norms
    As per Indian Nursing Council.

    Job Summary
    Principal the administrative head of the general nursing school will be responsible to the Medical Superintendent or District Surgeon of the hospital. Once the financial control of school handed over the principal of Medical Education and Directorate of Health and Family Welfare Services. As the head of the school she/he will be responsible for the smooth implementation of the INC syllabus and school administration.

    Duties and Responsibilities Administrative


    1. Advertizing and calling for candidates for nursing program.Scrutining applications, preparing merit list and calling them for interview. 2. Scrutining applications, preparing merit list and calling them for interview. 3. Conducting interview through the set up committee and selecting candidates and informing them. 4. Planning for orientation program for new students and staff. 5. Distributing teaching work load and departments to each tutor along with teaching materials connected with that e.g. nursing arts, anatomy, psychology, etc. 6. Carrying out correspondence with other departments, agencies, or individuals in connection with the program. 7. Maintaining students records, admission, register, results, registers master roll call for staff, teachers and student, etc.

    8. Countersigning records of each department, library and hostel after annual verification by the concerned incharge of the department and the warden in case of the hostel. 9. Seeing to the supply of audio-visual aids, teaching materials as requested by the concerned department incharge. 10. Placing indents with the government for stationary, uniform for certain category of Class IV servants. 11. Purchasing lines, furnitures, equipments, books and journals as per requirement of the office hostel and nursing department. 12. Authorising repairs of vechicles and purchase of oil, petrol and minor parts for replacement. 13. Sending proposals yearly for new items stall, costly equipments etc. 14. Countersigning cash book after periodical verification of cash. 15. Seeing that monthly pay bills are sent in time, so also TA bills or any other type of bills. 16. Assisting the auditors to do their jobs well, and replying to and complying with audit paras. 17. Countersigning stamp register every month. 18. Seeing that office-timings and other rules of service are observed. 19. Writing annually the confidential report of staff and teachers. 20. Holdings meetings with teachers staff of office, hostel staff, students and their committees. 21. Representing the college and the profession on various committees. 22. Working out the philosophy and objective of institution.

    Educational
    1. The Principal/ Principal Nursing Officer will be responsible for the smooth implementation of the prescribed syllabus, keeping in mind the goal to be achieved. She/he will therefore, be responsible for: 2. Working out the syllabus and the curriculum keeping within the framework lay down by the Indian Nursing Council. 3. Arranging for the theory and practical work for each group, with the help of tutor/clinical instructors so as to meet the laid down objectives. 4. Contacting agencies, institutions, for arranging field visits, clinical experience etc, students get the best possible experience in that area. 5. Initiating changes in curriculum keeping within the guidelines of the syllabus. 6. Cooperating with the State Council/Board to conduct examinations by providing all facilities.

    7. Guiding students in filling examination forms, registration fees, and seeing that they are submitted to the council in time. 8. Taking classes in her/his subjects. 9. Preparing and displaying weekly/monthly class, schedule clinical experience of relation plan etc, in consultation with tutors. 10. Maintaining records of examination results. 11. Communicating to the council any relevant information regarding students. 12. Encouraging teachers to experiment with newer methods of teaching and to find out newer clinical areas which would provide the best possible exposure of students to that area. 13. Encourage and supporting co curricular activities. 14. Issuing transcripts to students.

    Miscellaneous
    Besides her/his responsibilities in the administrative and teaching areas certain functions not reached to these two areas are also carried out. Encouraging faculty members to take up further studies, attend seminars workshops and a participate in professional activities. Participating in activities of the professional Organization. Encouraging students to actively participate in SNA activities and to join TNA I and GNAK on graduation. Arranging graduation and candle lighting ceremonies with help from tutors. Meetings visitors and discussing issues, pertaining to the school program. Meetings parents or guardians of the students as and when necessary. Preparing for the cooperation with inspectors from the state level bodies (Council or Directorate) or national council.

    Note
    The Principal, General Nursing School is an overall in charge of the school. However for running of the institution, it is necessary for her/him to delegate the responsibility of the hostel, library, laboratories, nursing sciences, nutrition community health, to the senior most person in the department or the warden or tutor- in charge of that subject/ area. E.g. tutor teaching should be made responsible for charts, models wet specimen, skeleton, etc.

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