Tilda Nursing School Report
The Nursing Student Hostel at Tilda Hospital Nursing School has recently completed a much needed expansion. The expansion was made to the women’s hostel because the demographics of nursing candidates have changed so dramatically in recent years and the women’s hostel was beyond capacity. In addition, the Indian Nursing Council had added six months of required training.
The medical work of the Church of North India, a strong Global Ministries partner in India, is a critical ministry to an immense population in poor rural and agricultural communities for whom medical care has always been unreliable in quality and availability. A part of the medical work is support for the Tilda Hospital Nursing School, which educates nurses who then serve in many area hospitals. When medical personnel are in short supply, well trained nurses are even more important. Nurses not only save people from disease and infection, but also from the danger of untrained medical practitioners who do more harm than good. Tilda Nursing School works hard to keep up with the demand for nurses and to maintain the highest quality training possible. 
Tilda Hospital Nursing School’s faculty includes one visiting and four permanent faculty members. Additional lessons are learned from Tilda Hospital’s qualified and experienced doctors, who also contribute to classes.
In addition to classes and the experience gained at Tilda Hospital, Tilda Nursing School students have an opportunity for clinical experience at several other hospitals. Nurses are exposed to and have experience in medical and surgical nursing at the Evangelical Hospital at Khariar and at Christian Hospital in Mungeli, in midwifery at Christian Hospital at Berhampur, and in psychiatric nursing at the hospital in Raipur.
The Nursing Student Hostel at Tilda Hospital Nursing School has recently completed a much needed expansion. The expansion was made to the women’s hostel because the demographics of nursing candidates have changed so dramatically in recent years and the women’s hostel was beyond capacity. In addition, the Indian Nursing Council had added six months of required training. This means a 33 percent increase on average of students in need of housing at any given time. The expansion is a two-story building with eight rooms which can provide accommodations for 32 students as well as one room for two service staff, and one common room.
In the past year, the Nursing School got needed equipment including a computer for the office, a laser printer, and a LCD projector. Though the completion of the hostel expansion was most important, the school still needs to improve the classroom building, to add more books and newer editions to the library, to establish a small computer lab, to purchase a small bus, a water purifier, and anatomical models.
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