PGIMER Nursing Syllabus 2026: Topic-Wise Guide

The PGIMER Nursing syllabus depends on which test you are preparing for. The Nursing Officer (Group B) recruitment test is built on the nursing curriculum, while the B.Sc Nursing entrance for the 4-year course is built on Class 11 and 12 science. The Post-Basic B.Sc entrance sits in between, drawing on GNM-level nursing subjects.

This page gives a subject-wise checklist for each, shows where subjects overlap, and ends with a week-wise plan. PGIMER does not publish a detailed topic-by-topic list in the sources we could check, so please read the honesty note below before you use the lists.

Table of Contents

• Honesty note on the syllabus

• PGIMER Nursing syllabus at a glance

• Nursing Officer syllabus, subject by subject

• B.Sc Nursing (4-year) entrance syllabus

• Post-Basic B.Sc Nursing entrance syllabus

• High-weight topics to start with

• Overlap between the tests

• Is there an interview syllabus?

• How to cover the syllabus

Honesty note on the syllabus

PGIMER describes the Nursing Officer paper as objective questions based on the prescribed nursing syllabus, and it does not list every topic. The topic lists below are built from reported subject lists and from the standard nursing curriculum. Use them as a working checklist, not as an official list, and compare them with the notice on the official PGIMER website when it is released or updated.

PGIMER Nursing syllabus at a glance

Nursing Officer syllabus, subject by subject

The following subjects are reported across secondary sources. Questions are objective and mostly direct, so clarity on definitions, values, schedules and standard nursing care steps pays off.

Clinical nursing subjects

Community and supporting subjects

Professional and management subjects

• First aid and emergency nursing: CPR, triage, bleeding control, fractures, poisoning, burns and disaster nursing.

• Nursing management and leadership: Hospital organisation, staffing, delegation, supervision, quality assurance and legal issues.

• Nursing education and research: Teaching methods, research basics, sampling, data collection tools and simple statistics.

• Ethics, laws and biomedical waste: Professional ethics, patient rights, infection control and waste segregation rules.

• Computer basics in nursing: Digital record keeping, office tools and health information systems; expect these to be minor.

B.Sc Nursing (4-year) entrance syllabus

For the 4-year course, questions are reported to be at Class 11 and 12 level, with the paper split across five sections of about 20 questions each. The topic lists below follow the standard science curriculum.

Post-Basic B.Sc Nursing entrance syllabus

This test is reported to cover core nursing subjects, clinical concepts and general aptitude, which in practice means the GNM syllabus. Use the Nursing Officer table above as your base, with extra weight on the following:

• Fundamentals and medical-surgical nursing: They form the backbone of GNM training.

• Community health and nutrition: Programmes, indicators and diets are common fact questions.

• Midwifery and child health: Know normal values, schedules and emergency steps.

Because the Post-Basic format is not described the same way across sources, check the current prospectus for section names and weightage.

High-weight topics to start with

No official weightage is published, so this is guidance from the structure of the subjects, not from a count of questions. Large subjects with many conditions, such as medical-surgical nursing, tend to supply more questions simply because they have more content.

• Medical-Surgical Nursing: Cardiac, respiratory, renal and neurological conditions deserve the first block of time.

• Community Health Nursing: Programmes and indicators are factual and repeat across papers.

• Child Health and Midwifery: Immunisation schedules, milestones and labour stages are short to learn.

• Pharmacology: Drug classes and dose calculations are scoring if practised regularly.

• For B.Sc entrance, Biology: It supports the aptitude section and your later nursing studies.

Overlap between the tests

If you may take more than one PGIMER nursing test over the next year, study the shared areas once.

Is there an interview syllabus?

No interview is reported for the Nursing Officer process, so there is no separate syllabus for one. Selection is described as a computer-based test followed by shortlisting and document verification. For B.Sc Nursing, counselling follows the merit list and has no syllabus either. Confirm this in the official notice, because processes can change between cycles.

How to cover the syllabus

A phased plan keeps revision regular. Adjust the weeks to your exam date, which for the Nursing Officer test is still to be announced.

1. Weeks 1 to 4: Cover Fundamentals, Medical-Surgical Nursing and Anatomy and Physiology, and write one-page notes per topic.

2. Weeks 5 to 7: Cover Community Health, Child Health, Midwifery and Mental Health Nursing.

3. Weeks 8 to 9: Cover Pharmacology, Nutrition, Microbiology, First Aid and Management, and revise the earlier notes.

4. Weeks 10 to 11: Take topic-wise tests and a short sectional test every second day.

5. Week 12 onwards: Take full-length timed mocks, analyse them the same day and revise your error log.