The document provides job descriptions for several nursing roles at different levels within India's public health system. The Director of Nursing Services is responsible for advising the government on all nursing matters and oversees nursing services and education nationwide. Below them are Deputy Directors focused on training and the Assistant Director who oversees nursing services at the state level. At the community level, District and Public Health Nurses manage services. Within hospitals, Nursing Superintendents oversee all nursing departments, assisted by Deputy Nursing Superintendents and Ward Sisters.

1. JOB DESCRIPTION

2. DIRECTOR OF NURSINGSERVICES:
Duties
• Nursing adviser being the
head of the nursing
services in the country is
responsible for advising the
Government of India on all
matter concerning nursing
service, nursing education
and specialization in
nursing.

3. •She/he guides, supervises and
co-ordinates nursing services
and nursing education in state.
•She/he plans total nursing
manpower of the country in
the area of nursing service,
nursing education and
continuing education, etc. in
co-operation and co-
ordination with state
government and voluntary
agencies.

4. • Responsible for developing the
national and international project
concerning in India.
• She is programme officer for
nursing section in the office of the
D.G.H.S. which involve
component of all the national
health programme.
• Maintains liaison with all
profession bodies concerned with
improving the standards of
nursing services and nursing
education in the country.

5. DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF NURSING SERVICE
• Training of various categories of nursing personnel in
family planning on all India basis.
• Periodical assessment of the need of nursing personnel
working in family planning in term of quantitative and
qualitative.
• Advising state Government on ways and means of
meeting the situation.
• Advising the Government of India in term of policy
making as regards of nursing training.
• Any other responsibilities assigned.

6. ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF NURSING:
Duties and responsibilities are:
• She/he responsible to see that the nursing
services in the state run smoothly regarding:
• Leave.
• Transfer of nursing personnel.
• Promotion and posting.
• Appointments with consultation with
superintendent of nursing services of another
section.
• Review of confidential reports.
• Correspondence with government and
non0government institutions.

7. • Educational programmes.
• Proposals to government.
• Inspections.
• Representation nursing interest on health
committees.
• Participating in health care planning.
• Deputing for B.Sc.nursing, M.Sc. nursing
in state or out of state and other training
higher learning programme, two years or
less to nursing personnel.

8. • Sanction of pre-audit bills.
• Granting permission for
workshop/and special seminar.
• No objection certificates for
passport.
• Administrative works pertaining
to nursing personnel.

9. PUBLICHEALTH/ COMMUNITY NURSINGORGANIZATION(AT
COMMUNITYLEVEL)
DISTRICT NURSING OFFICER
The Job
• District Nursing Officers get a chance to foster a
close and trusting relationship with our individual
clients and their family members as they strive to
stay healthy and independent. As a district
nursing officer you will be challenged to identify
creative solutions for situations involving, for
example, chronic pain, psychiatric illness,
substance abuse and rehabilitation. You must
remain current in all nursing practices, clinical
therapies and community resources in order to
provide the best possible service to all.

10. The Qualifications
• University degree in nursing.
• Experience in community
nursing is highly desirable.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Expertise in specialties such as
mental health and geriatrics are
important assets.

11. Duties and responsibilities
• Provide expert and specialized case
management advice.
• Perform comprehensive and complex
nursing assessments.
• Review assessments conducted by
contract nursing personnel.
• Approve client benefits.
• Monitor and evaluate the quality of
care delivered in long-term care
facilities.

12. • Train departmental staff on a variety
of health-related issues.
• Deliver training to other
departmental staff on a variety of
health-related issues.
• Provides health services to the
community according to the policies
of the department in the area of
preventive, promotive, curative and
rehabilitative care.

13. • Determines the philosophies and
objectives of the community health
department of the assigned areas .
• Gives leadership in the organizing and
implementing the various health schemes.
• Provides effective health supervision and
guidance to the member of the health
team.
• Contributes to research planed by other
health services, plans and implements
community education programme.

14. PUBLICHEALTH NURSING
OFFICER/SUPERVISOR
Duties and responsibility
• Public health nursing supervisor is directly
responsible to district public health nurse,
medical officer for the provision, supervision
and improvement of community health care
within the assigned area.
• She carries out preventive, promotive,
curative and rehabilitative care.
• Assists in determining the philosophies and
objectives of the community health
programme.
• Gives leaderships in planning total health
care to all individuals, families and
community and in all fields that she is
appointed.

15. • Assists in preparation of budget for the
community health department.
• Major responsibility in guidance and
supervision of PHN/LHV/ANM/
students who are under her.
• Organizes educational programme for
the community member including
school children, mothers and other
interested group in her area.
• Ensures that the worker under her
maintain proper records and achieve
their regard of work.

16. PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE:
Duties and responsibilities are:
• To Helps in organization of
maternal and child health
programme.
• To promote health and nutrition
education activities through the
lady health visitors, auxiliary nurse
midwives’.
• To help in developing school
health programme in the district.

17. • To ensure regular supply of equipments for
MCH work.
• To help the statistical officer in the district
family welfare bureau in compiling the
periodical progress report of MCH
activities.
• To review the periodical progress report on
MCH/FP work done by the LHVs/ANMs,
female multipurpose workers, etc .and put
up to the district medical officer/district
family welfare officer the points requiring
attention and further action.
• To provide for continuing education of the
female MCH/FP /functionaries in the
district through short in-service training
sources.

18. • Provides health care to all
individual, families and community
in any field that she is appointed.
• Trains, supervises and guides health
workers in the delivery of health
care services to the community.
• Plans health and family welfare
programmes among with health
worker.
• Carries out supervisory health visits
in the area covered by the health
worker.
• Coordinate the work of the male and
female health worker and the
personnel.
• Assists in conducting medical
examination of the school children.

19. • Lady health visitors are directly
responsible for the preventive,
promotive, curative and rehabilitative
health care carried out in the health
centers, maternity homes, hospital and
in the community.
• Each health visitor is responsible for
the care of 40,000 population in the
community.
• She is the next responsible to the
medical officer incharge of the center.
• She independently runs the family
planning and maternity centers.
LHV:

20. ANMs:
Duties and responsibilities:
Registration:
• She will register
• Pregnant women from three month
onwards.
• Married women in the reproductive
period.
• Children through systematic home
visits at a clinic.
• Maintain maternity records, register
of antenatal cases, eligible couple
register, children register up to date.
• Categorize the mother according to
the age and number of children.

21. Careat home:
• She will provide care to the
pregnant women.
• Gives advice on nutrition to
expectant and nursing
mothers.
• Distribute iron and folic acid
tablets to the pregnant
mothers.
• Immunize mother with
tetanus toxoid.
• Refer cases of abnormal
pregnancy.
• Spared the message of family
planning to the couples.etc.

22. Care at the clinic:
• Arrange and help M.O.in
conducting MCH and FP
clinics at the sub-center.
• Conduct urine examination
and estimate Hb%.
• Educate mother
individually and in group in
better family health
including MCH and family
planning, nutrition,
immunization, hygiene and
minor ailments.

23. HOSPITAL ANDINSTITUTIONAL LEVEL:
NURSING SUPERINTENDENT
• Nursing superintended is responsible to
the medical superintendent, in a
hospital having 400 or above bed
strength. She is accountable for the safe
and effective running of the various
nursing departments in the hospital. She
is assisted in carrying out her duties, by
the deputy nursing superintendent
/assistant nursing superintendent, ward
supervisor and clerical, linen room and
domestic staff.

24. Duties and responsibilities are:
• Nursingservices:
• Participate in the formulation of the
philosophy of the hospital in general and
those specific to the nursing service.
• Determine goals, aims, objectives and
policies of the nursing services.
• Implements hospital policies and rules
through various nursing units.
• Decides and recommends personnel and
material requirement for running
various nursing services department of
the hospitals.
• Interview and recruits nursing staff.

25. • Assist in student’s selection and
recruitment of other auxiliary
staff whose duties are related to
nursing.
• Ensure the safe and efficient care
rendered in the various nursing
departments of the hospital.
• Makes regular visits in the
hospital and wards.
• Takes hospital rounds with the
medical superintendent.

26. • Looks after the welfare of the patients.
• Gives counseling and guidance to the
subordinate staff.
• Maintains discipline among nurses and
other auxiliary staff.
• Participates in the hospitals and inter
hospitals meetings.
• Investigates complaints and takes
necessary steps.
• Plans staff developments programme.
• Arranges student’s clinical experience
and council examination.
• Initiates and participates in the
research work.

27. General and official duties:
• Attends to general
correspondents.
• Maintains necessary records
concerning to staff, students, and
confidential reports and nursing
council and nurses registration
council.
• Participates in professional and
community activities.
• Maintain cordial relations with
public and voluntary worker.

28. DEPUTY NURSING SUPERINTENDENT:
• Responsible to the nursing
superintendent and assists
her/him in the nursing
service administration of
the hospital. She/ he is
independently in charge of
nursing service department
of a less than 400 bedded
hospital.

29. Nursing service:
• Officiates in the absence of nursing
superintendent.
• Participates in the formulation of nursing
services, philosophies, objectives and policies.
• Assists in the recruitment of nursing staff and
student’s selection.
• Makes master duties roster of the nursing staff.
• Helps in allocation nursing personnel to
various nursing service departments.

30. • Assists in planning and organizing the new
units in hospital, e.g. I.C.U., C.S.D. etc.
• Maintains confidential reports and records
of the nursing staff.
• Takes regular hospitals rounds.
• Supervises care given in various
departments.

31. • Serves on several hospital committees, e.g.
purchase committee, class IV employee
committee.
• Assists in supervision of Nurses’ home, nurses’
hostel.
• Receives night reports from night supervisors.
• Conduct regular physical verification of
hospital stocks.
• Attends to emergency calls in rotation
concerning hospital or hostel problems.

32. Educational function:
• Assists in planning and implementing staff
development programme.
• Ensures clinical experience facilities for students
nurses in various clinical areas of the hospitals.
• Guides and counsels nursing staff.
• Arranges orientation programme for new nursing
staff.
• Maintains discipline among nursing personnel.
• Organizes experience programme for post-graduate
students from different hospital.

33. General duties:
• Escorts special visitors, nursing
superintendent, medical superintendent for
hospital rounds.
• Arranges and participates in professional and
social function of the staff and students.
• Maintains good public relation.
• Carries out the other duties assigned to her by
the nursing superintendent.

34. ASSISTANT NURSING SUPERINTENDENT:
• She /he is responsible for developing and
supervising nursing services of a department
or a floor consisting of two or more wards or
units managed by the ward supervisors.
• Patient care and ward management:
• Organizes and plans nursing care activities of
the department of floor according to hospital
policies and service need.
• Plans staffing patterns and other necessary
requirements of her /his department.

35. • Complies and submits nursing statistics to
the concerned authorities.
• Conduct and attend to departmental and
interdepartmental meeting /conference
from time to time.
• Makes regular rounds of her/his
departments.
• Sees to the safety and general cleanliness of
the department.

36. • Looks into general comforts of the patients and
his/her relatives.
• Receives reports from the night superintendent of
her / his departments.
• Makes rotation plans of nursing staff under her/his
junction.
• Reinforce the principles of good ward management
of ward.
• Supervises the proper use and care of the equipment
and supplies in the department.
• Act as a public officer relation in the unit and deals
with problems faced by the ward supervisor.

37. Educational function:
• Arranges classes and clinical teaching of nursing
students in the department, related to the specialty
experience.
• Does counseling guidance to staff and students.
• Arranges and develops staff development program
of her/his departments.
• Assists in planning for and participation in the
training of auxiliary personnel.
• Writes the confidential reports of her/his
ward/units supervisor.

38. General duties:
• Escorts special visitors, nursing
superintendent, medical superintendent for
hospital rounds.
• Arranges and participates in professional and
social function of the staff and students.
• Maintains good public relation.
• Carries out the other duties assigned to her by
the nursing superintendent.

39. NURSING SISTER/WARD SISTER/SUPERVISOR
• Nursing supervisor is accountable for the
nursing care management of a ward or a
unit assigned to her/him. She is responsible
to the nursing superintendent/assistant
nursing superintendent for her ward
management.

40. Direct patient care:
• Ensures proper admission, discharge of her patients.
• Plans nursing care makes patient’s assignment as per their
nursing needs.
• Assists in the direct care of the patient as and when required.
• She/he sees that total health need for her /his patient’s are met.
• Sees that proper observation records of the patients are made
and necessary information imparted to the concerned authority.
• Makes rounds with doctors.
• Implements doctors’ instruction concerning patient’s treatment.
• Assists patient and her relatives to adjust in the hospital and its
routines.
• Co ordinates patient care with other department.

41. Supervision and administration:
• Ensures safe and clean environment for the
ward /unit/special departments.
• Makes duties and work assignments.
• Does regular inventory checking of her/his
wards/units.
• Assist in, making ward requirements.
• Establishes and reinforces standards
prescribed in the procedures and manuals of
hospitals and policies that are in force.

42. • Acts as a liaison officer between ward staff and
hospital administration.
• Maintains good public relations in her/his
ward/units.
• Ensure that wards statistics are regularly submitted.
• Maintain discipline among the personnel working
in the particular ward/units, e.g. staff nurses,
students and domestic staff.
• Deals appropriately with any adverse situation that
occurs in the ward/unit and report to the concerned
authorities.

43. • Reports any medico legal cases in the
ward/units.
• Ensure that students get desired learning
experience in the wards/units.
• Educational function:
• Organizes orientation programme for new
staff nurses.
• Give teaching to the patient.

44. • Conduct wards conference and meeting.
• Evaluates the students’ performance and
submit reports to the school authority.
• Helps in medical and nursing research.
• Encourages staff development programme.

45. STAFF NURSE:
• General pre-university course/10+2 or equivalent
exam.
• Professional: 3 years general nursing/9 month/6
months’ midwifery/psychiatric nursing
diploma/certificate, recognized by Indian nursing
council.
• Or
• Basic B.Sc. nursing from recognized university
according to Indian nursing council norms.
• Registration: registration by Karnataka nursing
council /Indian nursing council/respective state
nursing council.

46. • Job description:
• Staff nurse is first level professional nurse
who provides direct patient care to one
patient or group of patients assigned to her
him during duty shift and assist in
management of wards/units /special
departments. She / he is directly
responsible to senior staff nurse or ward in
charge nurse/nursing superintendent Gr.II.

47. • Dutiesand responsibilities
• Direct patient care.
• Ward unit management
• Operation theater management.
• Management of labour room.
• Management of post operative /ICU/burn unit.
• Psychiatric units.
• Educational function.

48. Direct patient care:
• Carry out the procedure of admission and discharge of
the patient.
• Makes bed of serous patients and help or guides
students or group d employee.
• Maintain personal hygiene and comfort of the patients.
• Attends all needs of the patients.
• Implement and maintains ward policies and routine.
• Coordinate patients care with other team members.
• Take rounds with the doctors when called to list new
orders and see that they are carried out.
• Perform various technical task related to nursing care.

49. Ward /unit management:
• Helps the ward in charge to carry out her/his
work of act as ward in charge during her
absence.
• Maintain general cleanliness of the ward.
• Supervises the duties of group d employee.
• Writs the duties registers and supervises the
distribution of diet and report if any,
necessary.

50. • Maintain scheduled poisonous drug registers.
• Supervises nursing care and other tasks carried
out by the students.
• Maintain duty room tray and sterilizes
instruments and see that procedural tray are in
readiness.
• Take over from duty nurse of the previous, new
and serious patients, instruments, supplies,
drugs etc.
• Maintain all records pertaining toward/unit

51. Operation theater management:
• Maintain aseptic environment of the
operation theater.
• Autoclaving of articles, instruments, gloves,
linen etc.
• Receives patients from wad intact for the
surgery.
• Prepare anesthetic trolley and trolley for
surgery.

52. • Assist the surgeon and anesthetic in every
steps, skillfully while performing various
types of surgery.
• Indenting and procuring surgical
instruments, drugs, suturing materials etc.
require to Operation Theater.
• Maintains records and reports pertaining to
the operation theater.

53. Management of labour room
• Preparation of expectant mother for aseptic safe
delivery.
• Conduct normal delivery and reports.
• Attends and assist the doctors in all obstetrical
emergencies.
• Attained and assists in difficult and abnormal deliveries.
• Takes care of the new born and premature babies.
• Maintains records and reports pertaining to the labour
rooms.
• Indent and procure necessary drugs, supplies, linen etc.
to labour room.

54. Management of postoperative/ICU/burn units
• Indent and procurement of all the necessary
equipments, drugs, which are required for
the units.
• Operates ECG, EEG, cardiac resuscitation
etc. or other sophisticated high-tech
machines whenever needed or assist the
doctors in operating such machines.

55. Psychiatric unit
• Assist the doctors in admission and
discharge of the patient.
• Prepare patient for ECT and other
procedure, and therapies.
• Assist in management of aggressive,
suicidal as other symptoms of the patients.
• Maintain records and reports of the units.

56. Educational function
• Helps in orientation of the new staff and
students.
• Teaches and guides the domestic staff for
handling bedpans, urinals, etc.
• Carries out health teaching for individual
and group of patients.
• Extends cooperation and participates in
clinical teaching.

57. • Provides for and demonstrates methods and
procedure wherever needed.
• Participates in in-service education
program.
• Plan and implements formal and informal
health education programme and teaching
programme.
• Assists and extends co-operation in medical
and nursing research programme.

58. COLLEGE OF NURSING:
PRINCIPAL, COLLEGE OF NURSING:
• Principal, the administrative head of the
college of nursing will be responsible
directly responsible to the directorate of
medical education and directorate of health
and family welfare services. As the head of
the college she/he will be responsible for
the smooth implementation of the INC
syllabus and college administration.

59. Duties and responsibilities are:
• Administration:
• Planning.
• Develops philosophy and objectives for
educational programme.
• Identifies the present needs related to
educational programme.
• Investigates and secure resources.
• Formulates the plan of action.
• Selects and organizes learning experiences.

60. • Organizing:
• Determines the number of position and scope
and responsibilities of each faculty and staff.
• Analyses the job to be done in term of needs of
educational programme.
• Prepares the job description, indicate line of
authority, responsibility in the relationship
and channels of communication by means of
organizational charts and other methods.
• Maintains a plan of work load among staff
members.

61. • Directing:
• Directs activities of staff working under.
• Provides adequate orientation of staff
members.
• Guides and encourages staff members in their
job activities.
• Consistently makes administrative decision
based on established policies.
• Promotes staff participation in research.

62. • Co-ordinating:
• Co-ordinates activities relating to the
programme such as regular meeting, time
schedule, maintaining effective
communication etc.
• Initiates way of co-operation.
• Interprets nursing education to other
related disciplines and to the public.

63. • Controlling:
• Provides for continuous follow up and
revision of education programme.
• Maintains recognition of the education
programme by accrediting bodies,
university, INC etc.
• Maintains a comprehensive system of
records.
• Prepares periodic reports.

64. • Instruction:
• Plans for participating in the educational
programmes for further staff development.
• Recognizes the need for continuing
education for self and staff and provides
stimulation of opportunities for such
development.
• Participates as a teacher in the educational
programme.

65. • Guiding:
• Provides for systematic guidance
programme for staff members and students.
• Encourages studies, research and writing for
publication.
• Provides and maintains a programme for
recruitment, selection and promotion of
students.

66. PROFESSOR, COLLEGE OF NURSING:
• The professor is overall incharge of the
department and there by responsible for
administration, teaching activity and
guidance of that particular department.

67. Duties and responsibilities are:
• Administration.
• Instruction.
• Helping the learner to acquire desirable attitudes,
knowledge and skill.
• Evaluating learner’s progress.
• Recording and reporting.
• Investigating ways of improving teaching.
• Guidance.
• Counseling.
• Assisting in selection and promotion of learners.
• Research.

68. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, COLLEGE OF NURSING
• The assistant professor usually works under
professor and /HOD of the particular
department of specialty and assist him / her
in administration, teaching and guidance
and counseling and research activity.

69. Duties and responsibilities:
• Administration:
• Participates in determination of the
education purpose and policies.
• Utilizes opportunities through group action
to initiate improvement of the educational
programme.
• Directs the activities of the staff working in
the department.

70. • Instruction:
• Identifies needs of the learner.
• Plans within the educational units.
• Develop plan for learning experience.
• Participate in the continuing development
and evaluation of the curriculum.
• Helping the learner to acquire desirable
attitudes, knowledge and skill.

71. • Evaluating learner’s progress.
• Recording and reporting.
• Investigating ways of improving teaching.
• Guidance.
• Counseling.
• Assisting in selection and promotion of
learners.
• Research.

72. LECTURER, COLLEGE OF NURSING:
• Duties and responsibilities are:
• He/she works under the direction of the
departmental head and assists him in
administration, instruction and guidance
activity.

73. • Instruction:
• Identifies the needs of the learners.
• Selects and organizes learning experiences
which are in accordance with these activities.
• Increases knowledge and skill in own
curriculum area.
• Prepare clear and concise reports.
• Devices teaching methods appropriate to
objectives and contents.

74. • Guidanceandcounseling:
• Gives guidance within own field of
competency.
• Helps the learner to grow in self
understanding.

75. Research:
• Assist in initiating and participating in studies
for the improvement of the education
programme.
• Makes data available concerning learner and
concerning methods of learning and
evaluation.
• Continue to develop competence in problem-
solving process.
• Utilizes the finding of research

76. NURSING TUTOR/CLINICAL INSTRUCTORS
Roles and responsibility:
Academicfunction:
• Responsible for the planning and implementation
of the programme.
• Overall supervision of the teaching programme in
subjects in hospital/community health setting.
• Teaching subject in the curriculum.
• Maintains classroom equipments, supplies and
teaching aids.
• Conducts test and evaluation of student’s
assignments and performance.
• Helping the students with extracurricular activities.

77. • Administrationandevaluation:
• Assisting in the administration of the school of nursing.
• Supervision of the student’s health, welfare and security.
• Assisting in the selection of students and administration.
• Assisting in examination and test.
• Supervision of living condition of the students in the hostel.
• Assisting the teaching of other category of the personnel in the
hospital and community.
• Assisting in maintaining school record.
• Planning and implementation and evaluation of the
specification of the course.

78. SCHOOL OF NURSING:
PRINCIPAL SCHOOL OF NURSING:
Duties and responsibilities:
• 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 to the principal.
he/she shall be directly responsible to
the directorate 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.

79. • Some of the duties and responsibilities are
divided in three parts-
• Administrative
• Educational.
• Miscellaneous.

80. • Note- the principal general nursing school
of nursing is an overall in charge of the
school, however, for smooth running of the
institution, it is necessary for him/her 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 etc.

81. Senior tutor:
• Responsible for planning and implementation of
teaching programme.
• Teaching subjects in the curriculum.
• Overall supervision of the clinical teaching
programme/
• Assisting in the administration of school of
nursing.
• Assisting in examination, tests.
• Supervision of living condition of the students in
the hostel.
• Guiding students in extra curricular activities.
• Assisting the principal in the general
administration of the nursing school.
• Planning, implementation of specific course.

82. Tutor:
• Teaching nursing subjects.
• Supervision of student nurses in
clinical field.
• Arrangements for external lecture.
• Participation in clinical teaching.
• Guidance and counseling of
students.
• Evaluation of students’
assignments.
• Any other duties assigned.

83. Clinical instructor:
• Responsible for the planning and
implementation of the programme.
• Overall supervision of the teaching programme
in subjects in hospital/community health setting.
• Assisting the teaching of other category of the
personnel in the hospital and community.
• Assisting in maintaining school record.
• Planning and implementation and evaluation
of the specification of the course.
•

84. Conclusion:
• Job responsibilities assigned to each
member in a team is different .It is
important to aware about the job
responsibility of us.