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(g) A plan to reorganize the conduct of diploma of nursing programme by the
Ministry of Higher Education in the following manner:

i. By 2012, the entry requirements must be a pass in SPM with five credits
in Biology, Chemistry or Physics, Mathematics, Bahasa Malaysia and
Bahasa Inggeris;

ii. By 2012, all universities should cease to conduct diploma in nursing
programme;

iii. By 2015, only colleges of nursing with hospitals or affiliate hospitals
should be allowed to conduct diploma in nursing programme;

iv. By 2020, graduates of diploma in nursing should only be 40% of the total
Registered Nurse graduates in the country;

v. The criteria for teachers teaching in the diploma programme are: a
Bachelor of Nursing, a postbasic/postgraduate certificate or diploma in a
clinical specialty, satisfactory clinical experience of two to three years and
teaching process/technology qualification.

(h) A plan to reorganize the conduct of professional nursing programmes –
undergraduate and postgraduate studies – by the Ministry of Higher Education,
in the following manner:

i. Major emphasis on all programmes must be in clinical specialty to ensure
in-depth content and expertise in the practice of nursing to meet consumer
needs; the need to participate in the growth of Malaysia economy through
health tourism, foreign investments such as the presence of John Hopkins
University; shift in paradigm with special focus on mental health,
reproductive health, financial management, cancer survival nursing,
research building capacity; the compulsory integration of Nursing
Process Model, PBL (Problem-based Learning) approach in teaching and
practice;

ii. Student population must include foreign students, increase in male students
and an increase in the participation of multiracial group (as opposed to
almost 99% Malay and female gender in diploma programmes);

iii. The product of the programmes should be prepared to participate/be
involved in business ventures as entrepreneurs in healthcare, homecare,
women’s health issues and practitioners in individual or group practice;

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