ANM Full Form

What is the full form of ANM?

The full form of ANM is Auxiliary Nurse and Midwife. ANM is a diploma course that focuses on the study of various healthcare services. It helps students to learn how to take care of equipment and its maintenance, set up operating rooms, provide medicine to patients on time and keep track of the records.

Eligibility criteria

The ANM is a two-year training course. In individual institutes, the course can also be offered part-time. The minimum eligibility criteria for applicants interested in pursuing an ANM course are mentioned below.

• The minimum educational background needed for the ANM course is 10+2 in Science, Arts and English core or elective or health care science from a recognised board.
• Students qualified in the 10+2 Arts or Science examination conducted by the National Institute of Open School.

Admission process

• Many ANM Nursing Colleges providing the course admit students in a performance-based entry test accompanied by a Personal Interview (PI) round in which general aptitude is evaluated for the course.
• The admission procedures differ across universities.
• Final admission to the ANM depends entirely on the score of the candidate in the entrance test and the PI.

List of the famous institute offering the ANM course.

1. Bansal School Of Nursing Jainpur, Ludhiana , Punjab
2. Amritsar School of Nursing, Punjab
3. A N M (F H W) Training School G D General Hospital, Mehsana, Gujarat
4. Civil Hospital Bhatinda, Bhatinda, Punjab
5. A.N.M. School & Sadar Hospital, Hazaribagh, Jharkhand
6. Shri Guru Ram Rai Institute Of Medical & Health Sciences Patel Nagar Patel, Dehradun, Uttarakhand
7. A N M (R) Training School, Jangipur S D Hospital, West Bengal

Employment areas after the ANM course

The primary objective of ANM graduates is to take care of patients, including infants, women and the elderly. The course aims at providing medical services to patients, families and also communities so that they can obtain, maintain, or recover health and quality of life.

• Health visitor
• Home nurse
• Rural and basic and community health worker

Job opportunities

• Hospital staff and ICU nurse
• Homecare and health care nurse
• Nursing homes
• Medical labs and private clinics, etc.