NHM Rajasthan Staff Nurse Syllabus 2026: Subject-Wise Topics

The NHM Rajasthan Staff Nurse syllabus is built around one written test that mixes a short general section with a very large professional nursing section. If you understand how the topics are spread across the 150 reported questions, you can plan your weeks around marks instead of around chapters.

A note on sources first. The Rajasthan Staff Selection Board runs the written test for these NHM posts, and we could not find a detailed, topic-by-topic syllabus on its website for the Staff Nurse post. The section names and mark split below come from secondary reports on the last cycle, and the topic lists are working guidance based on those sections and on standard nursing curricula. Use them as a checklist, not as an official list, and compare them with the next official notice.

Table of Contents

• NHM Rajasthan Staff Nurse Syllabus at a Glance

• Key Points to Know Before You Start

• Professional Nursing Knowledge Syllabus

• NHM and RMNCH+A Syllabus

• General Knowledge, General Science and Current Affairs Syllabus

• English and Hindi Syllabus

• Computer Knowledge Syllabus

• Topics That Overlap Across Sections

• Is There a Syllabus for Document Verification?

• How to Cover the Syllabus in Phases

NHM Rajasthan Staff Nurse Syllabus at a Glance

Key Points to Know Before You Start

• Nursing decides your rank: Six out of every ten marks come from professional knowledge, so a strong GNM revision matters more than anything else.

• Small sections are scoring sections: NHM, computers and language sections carry 45 marks each and can be prepared quickly.

• The depth is GNM level: Questions are expected to follow the diploma curriculum, with a leaning toward community and public health.

• Older pages may differ: Older pages may still show topic lists from earlier NHM recruitments run by health societies, so follow the board's notice.

Professional Nursing Knowledge Syllabus

This section is the core of the paper. The 90 questions usually come from the following subject areas, which mirror the GNM course.

Foundations and basic sciences

Clinical nursing

• Medical and surgical nursing: Common conditions of the cardiac, respiratory, gastrointestinal, renal, neurological and endocrine systems, along with pre-operative and post-operative care, wound care and fluid balance.

• Emergency and critical care basics: Triage, shock, burns, poisoning, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, oxygen therapy and handling of common emergencies.

• Pharmacology basics: Drug classes, dosage calculation, routes, common adverse effects and safe storage.

Maternal and child health

• Midwifery and obstetrics: Antenatal care, normal labour and delivery, partograph, postnatal care, family planning methods and common complications of pregnancy.

• Child health nursing: Growth and development milestones, newborn care, immunisation schedule, common childhood illnesses and malnutrition.

Community health and professional issues

• Community health nursing: Primary health care, epidemiology basics, national health programmes, vaccine-preventable diseases, environmental sanitation and health education.

• Nursing profession: Nursing education, ethics, legal aspects, professional bodies and continuing education.

• Health administration: Hospital management basics, supervision, record keeping and the working of sub-centres, primary health centres and community health centres.

With 90 questions across this many topics, an easy rule is to give each of the four groups above a weekly slot, and to rotate. High-weight topics in most nursing papers are fundamentals, medical and surgical nursing, midwifery and community health, so make sure they are revised twice.

NHM and RMNCH+A Syllabus

This short section tests whether you understand the programme you are applying to work in. It is easy to prepare because the content is limited.

Read scheme names together with the target group, the benefit and the year of launch. Questions often pair a scheme with one of these three details.

General Knowledge, General Science and Current Affairs Syllabus

• History: Major events of Indian history, the national movement and the role of Rajasthan in it.

• Geography: Physical, social and economic geography of India and Rajasthan, including rivers, climate, agriculture and minerals.

• Polity and governance: Constitution basics, political system, Panchayati Raj and local administration.

• Economy and environment: Basic economic and social development concepts, biodiversity and climate change.

• General science: Physics, chemistry and biology at secondary school level.

• Current affairs: Recent events in India, Rajasthan and the world, with extra attention to health news.

Spend more time on Rajasthan-specific facts than on global ones. Questions about the state are easier to prepare for and tend to repeat across recruitments.

English and Hindi Syllabus

English

• Grammar: Tenses, articles, prepositions, modals, active and passive voice, direct and indirect speech.

• Vocabulary: Synonyms, antonyms, one-word substitution, idioms and phrases, commonly confused words.

• Sentence skills: Error spotting, sentence rearrangement and fill in the blanks.

• Comprehension: A short passage with questions on meaning and inference.

Hindi

• Word formation: Sandhi and sandhi-viched, upsarg and pratyay, samas and its analysis.

• Meaning and usage: Synonyms, antonyms, paired words, one-word substitution, muhavare and lokokti.

• Correctness: Spelling, sentence correction and technical terminology.

Fifteen questions are shared between both languages, so a daily 20-minute routine is enough for most candidates.

Computer Knowledge Syllabus

Topics That Overlap Across Sections

Some topics can be studied once and used in more than one section. Plan them together.

Is There a Syllabus for Document Verification?

No. Document verification is a check of certificates, not a test. Keep your mark sheets, GNM diploma, nursing council registration, identity proof and category documents ready in original form.

How to Cover the Syllabus in Phases

1. Weeks 1 to 6, concepts: Finish all four nursing groups from your GNM notes. Add 30 minutes a day for current affairs and 20 minutes for language.

2. Weeks 7 to 9, short sections: Complete NHM, RMNCH+A and computers with notes and a one-page summary of every scheme.

3. Weeks 10 to 12, practice: Take topic-wise nursing tests and note every wrong answer in an error log.

4. Final weeks, full papers: Attempt full-length timed papers, review them the same day and revise the error log twice a week.

Always confirm the syllabus against the official notice on the Rajasthan Staff Selection Board website once the next advertisement is released.