About us
Kongunadu College of Nursing
A nursing college with a clinical spine — founded by a family of doctors, run by a public trust, and attached to a working hospital so students learn care by doing it.
03-hero-group-02 · the trust & campus — photograph to follow
Our foundation
Built by a family of clinicians, for the next generation
The college was founded by Dr. P. Raju and is run by the Kovai Kongunattu Arakkattalai trust — with managing trustee Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Raju and trustees Dr. Karthikeyan Raju and Arthi Karthikeyan. It sits in a calm setting near the hills, roughly ten kilometres from Coimbatore, with modern teaching facilities and safe on-campus hostels.
Vision
Why we exist
To prepare nurses who can take responsibility for people's care across primary, secondary and tertiary settings — competent, compassionate, and ready for the ward from the day they graduate.
Mission
- Teach nursing on real hospital technology, with clinical postings from the second year.
- Keep classes small enough that tutors know every student by name.
- Hold ourselves to what our certificates support — no inflated claims.
- Support students with safe hostels, transport and a calm campus.
Hospital-backbone training
You learn where the work is real
Clinical training runs at our parent hospital, Kongunad Hospital (KnH) — a working platform with a cardiac cath lab and an NABL-accredited laboratory (restricted scope). supervised clinical postings begin in the second year.
- 70 ICU beds · six specialty units
- 14 operation theatres
- 15 dialysis stations (~40 sessions/day)
- 64 slice CT scanner
- 1.5T MRI
- 1,100+ imaging studies a week
Laboratory throughput averages ~9,900 investigations a week (about 1,550 on a working day). Figures from the hospital’s HMIS weekly-average table.
The trust
Kovai Kongunattu Arakkattalai
- Photograph to followDr. P. Raju26-people-leadership
Dr. P. Raju
Founder
- Photograph to followMrs. Vijayalakshmi Raju26-people-leadership
Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Raju
Managing Trustee
- Photograph to followDr. Karthikeyan Raju26-people-leadership
Dr. Karthikeyan Raju
Trustee
- Photograph to followArthi Karthikeyan26-people-leadership
Arthi Karthikeyan
Trustee
Portraits to follow (shot-list folder 26). Full committee and governance disclosures are published on the Approvals page.