Brief history of military nursing services

1. HISTORY & GROWTH OF
MILITARY NURSING SERVICE
(1926 – 2018)
CHAIRPERSON
LT COL HILDA FRANCIS
PRESENTED BY
CAPT NIMMI OUSEPH
LIEUT JINAMONI GOGOI

2. ‘History is a record of human progress , a
record of the struggle of the advancement
of the human mind , towards some known
or unknown objective’
Jawaharlal Nehru

3. TRIBUTE TO….
• The magnificent spirit of those stalwarts of the
past who always volunteered in spite of the
excessive work under conditions of great
discomfort and danger….

4. CRIMEAN WAR

5. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

7. MILESTONES OF MNS
PRE-INDEPENDENCE
1881 - Army Nursing Service
1888- Indian Nursing Service
1896-indian Army Nursing Service

8. MILESTONES OF MNS
PRE-INDEPENDENCE
1902- IANS to QAIMNS
1914 – Temporary Indian Nursing Service
1 oct 1926 – Permenant Nursing Service For
Indian Troops

9. MILESTONES OF MNS
PRE-INDEPENDENCE
1927 –Indian military nursing service
1940- military nursing service (temporary)
1941 – auxillary nursing service

10. MILESTONES OF MNS
PRE-INDEPENDENCE
1943 – MNS(I) to armed forces union , members
commissioned as officers of army
1945 – ranks were regulated
13 sep 1947 – QAIMNS withdrawn , COL DG
Howard (chief PM) of MNS

11. MILESTONES OF MNS
POST -INDEPENDENCE
•Col D G Howard (chief principal
matron)
•Members of MNS granted the
commission(in the rank of sister)
•Commission granted in the rank
of LIEUT
13 .09.1947
04.09.1948
03.01.1959

12. MILESTONES OF MNS
POST -INDEPENDENCE
• Chief principal matron promoted to the rank of brig
• Chief principal matron upgraded the rank of
DIRECTOR GENERAL( Major General G A Ram, PVSM)
• Raising day 1st OCT every year
• DGMNS redesigned as ADGMNS (Major General A
Rajmal , AVSM)
11.12.1962
27.08.1976
16.07.1979
01.02.1985

13. PRESENT ADGMNS

14. MILITARY NURSING SERVICE
BUDDING NEW GENERATION

15. NURSING EDUCATION
• School of nursing started in Pune and Delhi (1950)
• Presently CON in
AFMC PUNE
INHS ASVINI
CH KOLKATA
RR DELHI
CH LUCKNOW
CHAF BANGLORE
CHANDIMANDIR

16. ACTIVITIES BY CADETS

18. MILITARY COURSES
• BNOC
• SNOC

19. COURSES FOR PROFFESIONAL
GROWTH
• M. Sc Nursing
• Operation theater nursing
• Orthopaedic nursing
• Oncology nursing

20. • Peadiatric nursing
• Psychiatric nursing
• Cardio vascular and cardio
thoracic surgical nursing
• Burns nursing

21. SHORT-TERM UPDATE COURSES
• Renal nursing
• Paraplegic course
• Intensive care nursing
• Obstetrical and gynecology emergency
management

22. SERVICE BEYOND BORDERS
(FOREIGN SERVICES)

23. OUR SERVICE EXTENDED TO
LABANON
COMBODIA SOMALIA
CONGO

25. ON GOING AFMRC PROGECTS

27. FUTURISTIC VISION
• Reconstructing military nursing service
• Accreditation of nursing service
• Modernization of nursing units
• Super specialization in nursing units
• Improvement of nurse patient ration as per
Indian nursing council norms

28. Woodsarelovelydark, andsleep
but I havepromisesto keep
andmilesto go beforeI sleep……
andmilesto gobeforeI sleep…….