NHM Rajasthan Nursing Officer Syllabus 2025: Topic-wise Guide

The NHM Rajasthan Nursing Officer syllabus comes from the Rajasthan Staff Selection Board (RSSB) advertisement No. 01/2025 for the post of Contractual Nurse (NHM). The paper has five sections and carries 450 marks, and the professional nursing section alone is worth 270 of them.

This page lists every topic the Board has named, shows how marks are spread, and gives a week-wise plan to cover them. The Board prints a topic list in the advertisement, so nothing here is guesswork. The professional section is described only as "topics up to GNM course level", and the groups below follow the Board's own bullets.

Table of Contents

• Syllabus at a glance

• Key points to know

• General knowledge, general science and current affairs

• General English and Hindi

• National Health Mission and RMNCH+A

• Knowledge of computers

• Professional qualification topics

• How to cover the syllabus

Syllabus at a Glance

Each question carries 3 marks, so every 45-mark section works out to about 15 questions and the professional section to about 90. The Board does not print these question counts, so treat them as a working estimate from the marks. The exam pattern page explains the marking scheme.

Key Points to Know

• One paper, one syllabus: Contractual Nurse (NHM) and Contractual Nurse Grade-II (RajMES) share the same exam and syllabus, so you prepare once for both.

• Professional weightage: Three out of every five marks come from nursing subjects, so a strong GNM base decides your rank.

• Short sections still count: The four 45-mark sections add up to 180 marks. A gap of 20 to 30 marks there is hard to recover in the professional section.

• Single stage: There is no separate descriptive paper or interview in the 2025 process, so the whole syllabus is tested in one sitting.

General Knowledge, General Science and Current Affairs (45 Marks)

Rajasthan topics appear in four of the seven heads, so give them steady attention. Current events are the most perishable part, so revise the last 12 months before the exam rather than the full year of study.

General English and Hindi (45 Marks)

General English

• Grammar: tenses, modals, articles and determiners, clauses, uses of prepositions, active and passive voice, and direct and indirect narration.

• Sentence work: rearranging jumbled sentences, and comprehension with blanks to fill in with phrases and pronouns.

• Vocabulary: homonyms and homophones, synonyms and antonyms, pairs of words and their use in meaningful sentences, and idioms and phrases.

General Hindi

• Word formation: sandhi and sandhi-viched, upsarg and pratyay, samas and vigrah, and paryayvachi and vilom shabd.

• Correction: shabd shuddhi, vakya shuddhi (grammatical errors other than spelling), and one word for a phrase.

• Other topics: meaning difference between word pairs, Hindi equivalents of English administrative terms, and muhavare and lokoktiyan.

National Health Mission and RMNCH+A (45 Marks)

This section links directly to the job, so treat it as a scoring section. Cover these ten heads:

1. National Health Mission, its programmes such as RCH, and communicable and non-communicable disease control programmes

2. Ayushman Bharat and related health programmes

3. Introduction to RMNCH+A services: historical context, evolution, coverage and innovations

4. Components of service delivery under RMNCH+A, including Government of India programmes

5. Maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) services in the country

6. Adolescent health

7. Role of gender in public health programmes

8. Evolution of RCH services, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

9. Innovation in service delivery

10. Framework for evaluation of services

Knowledge of Computers (45 Marks)

• Basics: basic applications of computers and their components, fundamentals of computer science, and concept of open source technologies.

• Hardware and software: input and output devices, operating system, and hardware, software, CPU, peripherals, storage media, firmware and human-ware.

• Office tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS PowerPoint, PDF, internet and e-mail.

• Security and governance: computer viruses and anti-virus, and the role of information technology in governance, with IT Acts and regulations.

Professional Qualification Topics (270 Marks)

The Board states that nurse topics are covered up to GNM course level. It lists the topics below, which map to the usual GNM subjects.

The notification prints one bullet as "new logical disorders". We read it as neurological disorders, so check the official PDF if you want the exact wording. The Board gives no weightage for these nine areas. Medical-surgical nursing, community health and midwifery have the longest topic lists, so spend your first revision weeks there and keep the shorter areas for steady revision.

How to Cover the Syllabus

1. Weeks 1 to 3: Anatomy, physiology and nursing foundations. Draw diagrams and write short notes for each body system.

2. Weeks 4 to 6: Community health, child health and nutrition, along with the NHM and RMNCH+A section so the programmes stay linked to the clinical topics.

3. Weeks 7 to 9: Medical-surgical nursing, midwifery, infection control and emergencies. Add 20 minutes a day of current affairs from week 4 onward.

4. Weeks 10 and 11: English, Hindi and computers in short daily sets, plus a light read of education and administration topics.

5. Week 12 onward: Full-length tests, same-day analysis and error-log revision.

The official topic list is in the RSSB advertisement PDF.