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Directorate of Nursing Services

• Administration and Management of all nurses and non nurses employed within Government sector relating to nursing services;
• Education and Training;
• Planning and Policy Development;
• Budgeting and Accounts;
• Maintenance of Nursing Institutes and Nursing Hostel;
• Procurement of furniture, equipment, teaching aids and books;
• Management of the Development Project/programme;
• Coordination with other Ministries and Health Department;
• Chairman of the appointing and promotion committee, tender committee, central admission committee, member-secretary of the best nurses selection committee
• Coordination with DGHS, DGFP & other Directorates
• Coordination with Bangladesh Nursing Council.

• The Bangladesh Nursing Council (BNC) is non-Govt. organization.
• BNC is to ensure standard of nursing education and practice.
• Maintain registered nurses registration of qualified Nurses and Midwives, Family Welfare Visitors (FWV) and Assistant Nurses.
• Act as regulatory body
• Set the curriculum and review the syllabus for Nurses, Midwives and Family Welfare Visitors (FWV)
• Provide registration as a license to practice and renew it every five years.

• Centralized admission system is introduced in basic Nursing Course from 2000.
• Reviewing the Basic Nursing Curriculum by the financial assistance of WHO and consultants from Thailand & Bangladeshi Nursing Officers. has been completed and awaiting for approval.
• The curriculum of B.Sc. Nursing and B.Sc. Public Health Nursing has been updated which is implementing for providing a stronger focus on community health care, modern teaching methodologies & standard care.
• An Off-shore Master programme has been started at College of Nursing funded by WHO under the University of Adelaide, Australia. Ten students are offering this three years programme. After completion of feasibilities studies in-country Master Programme may be started in Bangladesh
• In-services training given to the different categories of Nurses in different areas (Orientation, Management, Leadership, Infection Control, Women’s Health etc.)
• Nursing Standards, introduced only in few hospitals, it is replicating in other hospitals also.
• SEARO Midwifery standard also introduced in few hospitals, which is also replicating in other hospitals
• Six textbooks, six teachers guidelines & two dictionaries in Bangla are currently being published.
• An educational & practice network has been established to facilitate the exchange of two way communication between DNS, BNC vise-versa nurses in the field.
• Nursing Research Cell has been established at the College of Nursing, a few Nursing Research has been started in Bangladesh

• 200 post of Staff Nurse has been created
• 1971 Staff Nurses employed
• Proposal submitted to the MOH&FW for increased the pay scale and up grading the status of nursing officers
• Proposal for creation of different categories of post of nurses has been submitted to the MOH&FW
• Furniture & Instrument has been supplied to the Nursing Institutes through DFID
• Renovation of DNS Office, 21 Nursing Institute & BNC completed
• Computer has been supplied to the Nursing Institutes and each section of DNS Office. There is a Server computer installed at the DNS office
• Four Principal and three Lecturer, 41 2nd. class Nursing Officers (Nursing Instructor, Dy. Nursing Superintendent & Dist. Public Health Nurses) have been promoted
• Proposal for promotion of 13 Nursing Officers to the post of class-1 has been submitted to the MOH&FW
• Two Nursing Officers have been recruited in Lien to the WHO as Consultant and Programme Coordinator respectively
• Proposal for creation of post of 800 Nursing Supervisors and 2000 Senior Staff Nurses has been submitted to the MOH&FW
• 70% post of Class -3 and Class-4 employees have been filled up through recruitment
• Proposal for changing of designation of Staff Nurse to Senior Staff Nurse has been submitted to the MOH&FW
• 13 Nurses have been completed MPH course from NIPSOM
• Four Nursing Officer have been completed study tour from Thailand on Regulation on Nursing and Midwifery with special emphasis on accreditation of nursing and midwifery education programme and effective function of the council and they are working to develop guidelines for accreditation system & quality assurance
• Workshop for Leadership for Change completed
• To develop lesson plan for revision of Diploma Nursing Curriculum going on
• Preparation of draft guidelines for hospital nursing services management for various levels of nursing managers, to develop a system for quality assuarnce in nursing services and/or for in-service education for nurses and midwives in selected hospitals going on.
• Meeting of National Network for Senior Nurses in education and Service sectors to improve the quality of services and education completed
• Two vehicle procured under WHO work plan N0. BAN OSD 002 for College of Nursing and Directorate of Nursing Services respectively
• Training/workshop on Nursing Leadership and Management going on
• Training/workshop for Orientation/Refresher course for Nursing Supervisors going on
• Six vehicle have been procured for four divisional continuing education centre and two Rural teaching centre
• Proposal has been submitted to the MOH&FW to create different categories of post for newly constructed Nursing Institutes.
• Proposal for equipments and vehicle for 6 newly constructed nursing institute has been submitted to CMSD.
• Construction work of Nursing Institute, Panchagor has been started in 2003-2004 and 26% work has been completed

• Directorate of Nursing Services (HQ)



SL. No.	Name of Post	Permanent post	Non-permanent post	Development post
1	Director	1	-	-
2	Deputy Director	2	-	-
3	Project Officer	1	-	-
4	Asstt. Director	2	-	-
5	Statistician	-	-	1
6	Administrative Officer	1	-	-
7	Accounts Officer	1	-	-
8	Upper Division Assistant	5	-	1
9	Accountant	1	-	-
10	Steno Typist	3	-	-
11	Cashier	1	-	-
12	Office Asstt. cum. Typist	14	-	2
13	Duplicating Machine Operator	1	-	-
14	Driver	3	-	-
15	Daftory	1	-	-
16	Cash Sarker	1	-	-
17	MLSS	13	-	-
18	Darwan cum-Night guard	3	-	-
19	Sweeper	2	-	-



• Office of the Divisional Assistant Director (Nursing ( Dhaka, Chittagong, Khulna and Rajshahi)



1	Dy. Director (Nursing)	-	-	4
2	Assistant Director (Nursing)	4	-	4
3	Office Assistant cum-Typist	4	-	-
4	MLSS



• Post under control of the Directorate of Nursing Services in the different Hospitla/Institute



SL. No.	Name of Post	Permanent post	Non-permanent post	Development post
1	Nursing Superintendent	16	-	-
2	Dy. Nursing Superintendent	41	-	-
3	Nursing Instructor	126	-	-
4	District Public Health Nurse	64	-	-
5	Nursing Supervisor	479	250	147
6	Senior Staff Nurse	5268	4994	-
7	Staff Nurse	-	2000	-
8	Assistant Nurse	962	457
9	Total	6956	7701	286



• College of Nursing, Mohakhali, Dhaka



SL. No.	Name of Post	Permanent post	Non-permanent post	Development post
1	Principal	1	-	-
2	Lecturer	10	-	-
3	Instructor	4	-	-
4	Head Clerk	1	-	-
5	Accountant	1	-	-
6	Steno Typist	1	-	-
7	Upper Division Asstt.	1	-	1
8	Home Visitor	1	-	-
9	Store keeper	1	-	-
10	Office Asstt.Cunm-Typist	3	-	1
11	LB; Asstt.	2	-	-
12	Asstt. Librarian	1	-	-
13	Cashier	1	-	-
14	House Keeper	1	-	-
15	Artist	1	-	-
16	Driver	1	-	-
17	Daftory	1	-	-
18	MLSS	25	-	-
19	Cook/Mosalchi	6	-	-
20	Sweeper	3	-	-
21	Total	67	-	2



• Nursing Institute attached to eight Medical College Hospitals:

SL. No.	Name of Post	Permanent post	Non-permanent post	Development post
1	Principal	8	-	-
2	Nursing Instructor	48	-	-
3	Head Asstt./ Accountant	8	-	-
4	House Sister	8	-	-
5	House Keeper	8	-	-
6	Office Asstt. cum-Typist	16	-	-
7	Cashier	8	-	-
8	Driver	8	-	-
9	Daftory	8	-	-
10	MLSS	104	-	-
11	Cook/ Masalchi	40	-	-
12	Sweeper	24	-	-
13	Total	288	-	-



• Nursing Institute attached to twelve (Old Dist) General Hospital:



SL. No.	Name of Post	Permanent post	Non-permanent post (ad-hoc)	Development post
1	Nursing Instructor In-Charge	12	-	-
2	Nursing Instructor	24	-	-
3	Accountant	12	-	-
4	House Keeper	12	-	-
5	Office Asstt. cum-Typist	12	-	-
6	Driver	12	-	-
7	Daftory	12	-	-
8	MLSS	48	-	-
9	Cook/Mosalchi	24	-	-
10	Sweeper	12	-	-
11	Total	180	-	-



• Nursing Institute attached to eighteen (New Dist) Sadar Hospital:



SL. No.	Name of Post	Permanent post	Non-permanent post	Development post
1	Nursing Instructor	36	-	18
2	House Keeper	18	-	-
3	Upper Division Asstt.	-	-	18
4	Cashier	-	-	18
5	Office Asstt cum-Typist	18	-	-
6	Driver	-	-	18
7	Daftory	18	-	-
8	MLSS	54	-	-
9	Mali	-	-	18
10	Table boy	-	-	36
11	Cook/Masalchi	36	-	36
12	Darwan	-	-	54
13	Sweeper	18	-	18
14	Total	198	-	234



• Four Divisional Continuing Education Centre (Mymensingh, Chittagong, Barisal & Rajshahi)
  

  SL. No.	Name of Post	Permanent post	Non-permanent post	Development post
  1	Chief Coordinator	-	4	-
  2	Asstt. Coordinator	-	4	-
  3	Nursing Instructor	-	4	-
  4	Upper Division Asstt.	-	36	-
  5	Office Asstt cum-Typist	-	4	-
  6	Driver	-	4	-
  7	MLSS	-	48	-
  8	Total	-	104	-

• Two Rural Teaching Centre (Harinakundo, Jhinaidah & Gabtoli, Bogra)
  

  SL. No.	Name of Post	Permanent post	Non-permanent post	Development post
  1	Chief Coordinator	-	2	-
  2	Asstt. Coordinator	-	2	-
  3	Nursing Instructor	-	12	-
  4	Upper Division Asstt.	-	2	-
  5	Office Asstt cum-Typist	-	2	-
  6	Driver	-	2	-
  7	MLSS	-	24	-
  8	Total	-	46	-

• Govt. Nursing Institutes
  

  SL. No.	Name of Nursing Institute (NI)	Sanctioned seat	Year	Four programme
  1	NI. DMCH	180	1st-4th	720
  2	NI. SSMC, Mitford Hospital, Dhaka	20		80
  3	NI. MMCH, Mymsnsingh	25		100
  4	NI. CMCH, Chittagong	50		200
  5	NI Sylhet	50		200
  6	NI Barisal	50		200
  7	NI Rajshahi	50		200
  8	NI Rangpur	50		200
  9	NI Faridpur	25		100
  10	NI Tangail	25		100
  11	NI Khulna	25		100
  12	NI Jessore	25		100
  13	NI Kushtia	25		100
  14	NI Comilla	25		100
  15	NI Noakhali	25		100
  16	NI Rangamati	25		100
  17	NI Patuakhali	25		100
  18	NI Dinajpur	25		100
  19	NI Pabna	25		100
  20	NI Bogra	25		100
  21	NI Sherpur	20		80
  22	NI Chuadanga	20		80
  23	NI Magura	20		80
  24	NI Satkhira	20		80
  25	Chapainowabgong	20		80
  26	Netrokona	20		80
  27	NI Rajbari	20		80
  28	NI Munshigong	20		80
  29	NI Feni	20		80
  30	NI Cox,s Bazar	20		80
  31	NI B-Baria	20		80
  32	NI Moulvi Bazar	20		80
  33	NI Bhola	20		80
  34	NI Serajgong	20		80
  35	NI Kurigram	20		80
  36	NI Joypurhat	20		80
  37	NI Thakurgaon	20		80

• One Army and 5 Private Nursing Institute:
  1. Nursing Institute attached to Holy Family Redcrecent Hospital, Dhaka
  2. Nursing Institute attached to Kumudini hospital, Mirzapur, Tangail
  3. Nursing Institute attached to Christian Mission Hospital, Rajshahi
  4. Nursing Institute attached to Christian Mission Hospital, Chandragona
  5. Nursing Institute attached to Zahurul Islam Medical College Hospital, Bajitpur, Kishorgong
  6. Nursing Institute attached to Armed Forces Nursing Services, Combined Military Hospital, Dhaka Cantt.
• Nursing Institute under construction: