To gauge the performance and working of nursing schools the Directorate:
- Monitors the merit of admission as per government policy
- Monitors all the affairs related to nursing schools
- Being the appellant authority, considers the disciplinary cases of nursing students
- Collects and consolidates data related to schools of nursing and forward it to the government
- Implements policies laid down by the Pakistan Nursing Council, Islamabad as well as the ones by the Health Department
- Arranges the trainings of nurses at national and international level