Scheme and syllabus for UPSC Recruitment Test (RT) for posts of Nursing Officer
Scheme
- The test will be of two hours duration
- All questions will carry equal marks.
- The test will be objective type questions with multiple choices of answer.
- The medium of the test will be English.
- There will be penalty for wrong answers. Every wrong answer will carry a deduction of one-third of the marks assigned to that question. If no answer is marked for a question, there will be no penalty for that question.
Syllabus1
The syllabus of the Test broadly comprises the following topics:
| S.No. | Topic |
| 1 | Nursing Foundation. |
| 2 | Medical Surgical Nursing (including Pathology and Pharmacology). |
| 3 | Nursing Education (including e-technology). |
| 4 | Paediatric Nursing. |
| 5 | Mental Health Nursing. |
| 6 | Nursing Management. |
| 7 | Nursing Research and Statistics. |
| 8 | Obstetrics and Gynaecological Nursing. |
| 9 | Community Health Nursing. |
| 10 | Anatomy. |
| 11 | Physiology. |
| 12 | Psychology. |
| 13 | Sociology. |
| 14 | Nutrition and Dietetics. |
| 15 | Microbiology. |
| 16 | Biochemistry. |
Weightage
- 100% weightage is accorded for the Recruitment Test.
- https://upsc.gov.in/sites/default/files/AdvtNo-52-2024-Spcl-NrsngOfcr-engl-070324_0.pdf ↩︎