Perceptions of health care consumers and deliverers nurses, nursing practice and nursing education system

A profession will be in a better position to pursue its goals when its actions are guided by an accurate understanding of its public image. India has a well planned public health care delivery system on one side as well as a huge burden of the global case load on the other. No doubt, nurses are the essential and indispensible members of the health team in the public health care delivery system. Being on the verge of the decade (2001–2010), it is essential that we evaluate where we are in terms of quantity and quality of national health care requirements and the professional education system with regard to nursing per se.