Bishop Benziger College of Nursing, Kollam

Bishop Benziger College of Nursing, Kollam, Kerala is a Unit of Bishop Benziger Hospital Society. It is a charitable society under the Diocese of Quilon, which opened an avenue of health care service to the people since 1948.Under the leadership of R to the people since 1948.Under the leadership of Rt. Rev. Dr. Paul Antony Mullassery, the Bishop of Quilon, the diocese runs many aided and unaided institutions in educational, health care, social services, and pastoral sectors. Bishop Benziger College of Nursing, Kollam founded in 2004 by the then Bishop of Quilon Rt. Rev Dr.Stanley Roman, is a Christian minority educational institution. The college is approved and recognized by Indian Nursing Council (INC) and is affiliated to Kerala Nurses and Midwives Council (KNMC) and Kerala University of Health Sciences (KUHS). The College offers B.Sc. Nursing programme since 2004 and M.Sc. Nursing since 2010 in five specialties namely Medical Surgical Nursing, OBG Nursing, Child Health Nursing, Community Health Nursing and Psychiatry Nursing. The institution also offers Ph.D. programme in nursing as it is a recognized Research Centre of KUHS since 2019. Our institution is the second nursing institution in Kerala to get accredited by NAAC with CGPA 2.77(B Grade) in 2016, and the first institution under KUHS to get quality accreditation with A+ grade. The college is the only health care institution in Kerala having membership in the prestigious United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI). The institution is committed to quality care of patients through education, practice and research. To prepare young nursing professionals, competent to deliver comprehensive holistic health care with special emphasis on community health services to meet the health needs of medically underprivileged areas of our community Health care and upliftment of the population of Kollam district and surrounding area through quality educational preparation of Student nurses To uphold the ethical values, be loyal to the higher ideas of the health profession. To foster team work and cooperative effort in the institution. To uphold respect for human life from the moment of conception to its natural end and cultivate a genuine feeling of compassion for the patients. To conduct research activities, execute social services and motivate community development programs To promote and motivate students to cultivate leadership qualities. To provide students centered quality education to equip them with application of relevant knowledge from humanities, biological and behavioral science in carrying out health care. To make a qualitative contribution to health care through training of personnel who are dedicated to healing ministry. To prepare nurse as a minister at altar of human life, with upholding respect for human life from the moment of conception to the natural end. To promote team spirit to deliver comprehensive holistic health care. To help the students acquire knowledge of theory and principles from humanities, biological and behavioral sciences to carryout individualistic health care. To provide quality nursing care to clients at various settings such as hospitals and community and other health care agencies irrespective of religion or caste, particularly the less fortunate. To promote problem solving and evidence based practice through research activities. To help students to practice genuine feeling of compassion, indiscrimination and ethical values in their personal, professional life. To provide over all development of students with special emphasis on intellectual, cultural psychosocial and spiritual aspects. To motivate and cultivate leadership qualities in the students so that they will assume leadership position in the profession and society helping in developmental activities of health care and society. ...view more