B.Voc in Patient Care Management Program
Overview
B. Voc in Patient Care Management is a three-year course targeted to give perfect care to patients. The goal of the course is to give students a general understanding of how to manage patients with care, whether they are inpatients, outpatients, or located anyplace else in the hospital. This student would be qualified to provide a variety of services, including care for children, geriatric patients, heart patients, and cancer patients.
In addition, PCM students need to be proficient in patient personal care, fundamental nursing techniques, patient ambulation, and handling, storekeeping, disposing of biomedical waste, etc. To put it simply, PCM students manage the complete patient life cycle.
Subject
First Semester | Second Semester | ||
| 1 | Introduction to Patient Care Management | 1 | Patient Assessment and Documentation |
| 2 | Basics of Healthcare and Medical Terminology | 2 | Nursing Fundamentals |
| 3 | Communication Skills in Healthcare | 3 | Pharmacology in Patient Care |
| 4 | Anatomy and Physiology | 4 | Healthcare Ethics and Regulations |
| 5 | Basics of Patient Care | 5 | Clinical Internship I |
Third Semester | Four Semester | ||
| 1 | Chronic Disease Management | 1 | Palliative Care |
| 2 | Patient Safety and Risk Management | 2 | Healthcare Technology Management |
| 3 | Clinical Pathology | 3 | Clinical Internship III |
| 4 | Clinical Internship II | 4 | Healthcare Ethics and Legal Issues |
| 5 | Research Methodology in Healthcare | 5 | Healthcare Quality Management |
Five Semester | Six Semester | ||
| 1 | Pediatric Patient Care | 1 | Emergency Patient Care Management |
| 2 | Geriatric Patient Care | 2 | Patient Care Administration |
| 3 | Clinical Internship IV | 3 | Clinical Internship V |
| 4 | Research Project in Patient Care Management | 4 | Legal Aspects in Healthcare |
| 5 | Professional Development in Healthcare | 5 | Professional Ethics in Healthcare |
Minimum Educational Qualification and Experience
The eligibility for admission to B. Voc. In Patient Care Management shall be 10+2 or equivalent, in the science stream.
Planned arrangements for RPL
HSSC has developed RPL policy to conduct pre-assessment of students for gap analysis as per NOS, sharing the gap & final assessments of students and certification. It is explained in section
1 under Assessment,
Point 2
International comparability was known
While writing the NOSs the UK NOSs were also referred to and an effort was taken to maintain comparability in the technical part of the NOSs.
Career Scope
- ◉ Private and Government Hospitals
- ◉ Nursing Homes
- ◉ NGOs
- ◉ Healthcare Systems Clinics and
- ◉ Community Health Centers (CHCs)