After registration, qualified nurses can find employment wherever nursing services are required, e.g.:

· Hospitals, nursing homes, sanitariums, both private and government run;
· The military;
· The public health service;
· Treatment rooms and clinics;

Industrial houses, factories, corporations, offices; schools; crèches, orphanages and old age homes;
Institutions for the mentally and physically handicapped and private homes.

Note: Nurses with a postgraduate degree are eligible to teach in training institutions.

FUTURE PROSPECTS

Anywhere in the world, the demand for qualified, skilled nurses is ever present. In India, as the government attempts to widen the availability of health services, this demand for trained nurses continues to grow. 

The existing nurse-patient ratio ranges from 1:10 to 1:50 in most government hospitals. With projected requirements of 1:3 and 1:5 in teaching and non-teaching hospitals, the country needs at least another 6.6 lakh nurses by the year 2000. For those who feel that caring for people is their vocation, there will always be work available.

RELATED CAREERS

Medicine, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, social work.