SURA`S TNPSC Maternal & Child Health Officer`s Exam Book - 2023 Latest Edition

Description about the Book :

Sura Publication has released many TNPSC books that have great acceptance among aspirants. TNPSC Maternal & Child Health Officers’ exam is especially prepared based on the prescribed syllabus. The chapters have been extensively dealt with, for candidates to gain thorough knowledge.

The book has been prepared, incorporating theory and multiple choice question answersfor all the chapters. About 1000 frequently asked questions have been given. The chapters covered are Introduction to Nursing, Hospital and its Function, Responsibility of Nurses in Hospital, First Aid, Anatomy & Physiology, Medical - Surgical Nursing, Mental Health Nursing, Midwifery, Pediatric Nursing,  Community Health Nursing, Pharmacology and Application of Psychology in Nursing.

In addition to this, Abbreviations, Nutrition and bio-chemistry, and Introduction to Computerhave also been covered. For candidates to have an understanding of the exam pattern, Original TNPSC 2015 Health Officer solved question paper is included. 

Description about the Exam :

TNPSC recruits Nursing graduatesfor the post of Maternal and Child Health Officer in Tamil Nadu Public Health Service. Notification for this post by TNPSC is anticipated to be released soon. Number of vacancies will be more than 50. The scale of pay for this post is Rs 9300 -34800 + 4700 GP.

To be eligible for the post, candidates should:

- Be less than 30 years(No age limit for SC, SCA, ST, MBC/DC, BC and BCM category candidates)

- Have completed B. Sc Nursing or B.Sc Public Health Nurse

- Have a Certificate of registration in section I-A or I-B of the Register of Nurses under theTamil Nadu Nurses and Midwives Act, 1926 (Tamil Nadu Act-III of 1926)

- Have a Certificate of registration in section I-C of the register of Midwives under the Tamil NaduNurses and Midwives Act 1926 (Tamil Nadu Act – III of 1926)

- Possess adequate knowledge of Tamil

Candidates should have cleared the required qualification in the order of studies – 10^th, HSC, U.G Degree.

The selection process includeswritten examination and Oral Test (Interview). Written examination includes two papers. Paper I will be of Degree standard and will comprise of 200 Objective type questions. The duration of this paper is 3 hours. This paper is for 300 marks.

Paper II includes the following sections – General Studies of degree standard and Aptitude Mental Ability of SSLC standard. The duration of this paper is 2 hours. The maximum marks for this paper is 200.

An Interview will be conducted toassess the candidates’ knowledge. The marks allotted for the interview and Records is 70 marks.

Candidates should appear in both the papers and Interview to be considered for selection. The qualifying mark for each candidate is calculated based on the marks obtained in both the papers and the interview. The qualifying mark is 171 marks for SC, SCA, ST, MBC, DC, BC and BCM category candidates and 228 marks for candidates belonging to other categories.