Various health surveys brought to light the fact that the strength of nursing staff in all the fields of health needs to be increased appreciably. The high power committee on ‘Nursing and Nursing Profession’ set up by the Central Government gave its recommendations at the end of March 1990. One of the recommendations was that nursing education needs to be fitted into the national stream of education to bring about uniformity, recognition and standards.The committee recommends that there should be two levels of Nursing Personnel viz., Professional Nurse (Degree level) and Auxiliary Nurse/Vocational Nurse (Plus two level). This is the internationally accepted pattern of nursing education.The JSS College of Nursing was started in November 1997 by the foresight and vision of His Holiness Jagadguru Sri Shivarathreeshwara Deshikendra Mahaswamiji to prepare professional Nurses at the university level in order to improve standards of nursing service through quality nursing education.The idea was conceived in 1990 and nurtured for seven long years. This is the first college of nursing started in the city of Mysore as well as the first college of nursing in Mysore to start a post-graduation course in nursing. Its motto is to maintain the standards of nursing education and all efforts are made to deploy well qualified and experienced faculty to achieve the goal.