Female Multipurpose Health Worker
This is the first and foremost step in nursing profession. FMPHW curriculum intends to prepare skilled and effective health workers, to achieve the goals of National Rural Health Mission, which aims at bringing about dramatic improvement in the health system and health status of the community.
Many nurses provide care within ordering scope of physicians and this traditional roles has come to shape the historic public image of nurses as care providers. Health is a fundamental human right. Maintenance of optimum level of health entails individual as well as social responsibility. However health can never be adequately protected by health services without active involvement of the community. Multipurpose health workers both male and female play a vital role in the rural health care delivery system. Nursing just doesn’t mean serving an individual patient, it has much role to play , e.g., health training, supervision, administration of hospitals and promotion of health programmes in community.
Carrier Opportunities
It is a short duration course which can help to make carrier in a short span of time. Being the backbone of health sector Multipurpose Health Workers can get jobs easily in both Government and private sectors. Mostly they work in areas like Government and private hospitals, nursing homes, old age homes, dispensaries, orphanages and armed forces. They also work as home care nurses and community health nurses