Students from Karnataka can practice as nurses in Kerala, says HC

The Kerala High Court has directed the Kerala Nurses and Midwives Council to registry students who person completed nursing courses from institutions tally by the Karnataka State Association of the Management of Nursing and Allied Health Science Institutions successful Karnataka and to licence them to practise arsenic nurses successful Kerala, provided their qualifications are included successful the Schedule to the Indian Nursing Council Act, 1947.

The absorption was issued connected Tuesday connected a plea filed by the association, which submitted that respective students who had completed BSc Nursing courses from nursing colleges successful Karnataka were being denied registration successful Kerala connected the crushed that the Indian Nursing Council had not recognised the institutions conducting the BSc Nursing courses successful Karnataka. The institutions acrophobic are members of the petitioner association.

The relation contended that the Indian Nursing Council cannot importune connected abstracted designation of the institutions by the council, arsenic the institutions are duly registered and recognised by the Karnataka State Nursing Council. It further submitted that immoderate nursing grade awarded by a assemblage affiliated to the respective State Nursing Council should beryllium recognised crossed the country.

While proceeding the plea, the High Court termed the enactment of the Kerala Nurses and Midwives Council — insisting connected a designation oregon suitability certificate from the Indian Nursing Council for the institutions wherever the students had pursued their studies — arsenic “illegal and arbitrary.”