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agenda two

By 2020, the nursing profession will have the autonomy in decision making and
practice through an effective governance that enables members to control their practice,
their self-discipline, their working conditions and their professional affairs.

Strategies
1. Nursing organizations at various levels of the healthcare system to ensure that nursing
care provided to clients (individuals, families and the community) is based on the
critical thinking model known as the Nursing Process Model. The model specifies
that nurses perform nursing assessment, derive nursing diagnosis, identify client
outcomes, plan for the care, implement and evaluate the plan of care. This process is
the foundation for clinical decision making and includes all significant actions taken
by nurses in providing care to clients, outside of doctors’ orders;

2. A mechanism is established through which nursing could be seen by the public as
active in politics, professional and financial issues affecting health care and nursing
profession.

The mechanism to be established is the setting up of THE MALAYSIAN ACADEMY
OF NURSING, an independent professional institution devoted to advancing the
art and science of nursing by promoting and maintaining the highest professional
standards of nursing education, thereby providing the highest quality of patient care
for the people of Malaysia. It is expected to establish in 2011; and

3. The Malaysian Academy of Nursing with the support of the Ministry of Higher
Education to advocate the notion that nursing practice should be controlled by the
Nursing Board or Nursing Council which is independent of the Ministry of Health. The
Board/Council must be headed by a nurse with highly qualified nursing membership.
The major concern of the board/council must be on the quality of nursing services
which constitutes the heart of its responsibility to the public.

agenda three

In support of Agenda 1 and Agenda 2 as well as for the advancement of nursing
education in Malaysia, by 2015 a one-system nursing education must be in place implying
that all nursing programmes conducted by the Ministry of Health be placed under the
umbrella of the Ministry of Higher Education.

Strategies
1. The Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA) to advocate the conduct of accreditation
initiatives on all current Ministry of Health nursing education programmes using the

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