ABSTRACT
This chapter is based upon interview between author and C. Chandrakanthi, Thiruvananthapuram. It took at least 10 telephone calls to author, to set up an interview with the impressively busy Chandrakanthi, who is the Dean of the College of Nursing at the privately-run Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences. And Research Centre in Kochi, as well as the Chairman of the Board of Studies in Nursing at the Mahatma Gandhi University. Chandrakanthi, after taking two years of a pre-university course, enrolled at the newly established School of Nursing in Trivandrum, and was a member of the first batch of students to study with Lucy Peters. Chandrakanthi then went on to take Peters' pioneering post-basic BSc programme, the first of its kind in South and South-east Asia. The rapid opening of new nursing schools and colleges is providing opportunities for retired nurses such as Chandrakanthi to take up creative and profitable new positions of authority.
