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NursiNg EducatioN iN Malaysia

Strategies
1. The Nursing Division of all healthcare organizations, in particular the Ministry of
Health Nursing Division, to enforce standards for clinical nursing practice to constitute
the Nursing Process Model which outlines six important steps in its standard of care
to clients.

2. The Ministry of Higher Education to enforce a mechanism that compels:

(a) The Nursing Process Model be taught, assessed and applied in clinical practice
sessions at all basic and graduate nursing programmes;

(b) The entry requirements into basic nursing education programmes at diploma and
degree levels be specified to include pure science subjects (biology, chemistry/
physics) and mathematics to enable graduates to have the nursing literacy and
numeracy skills so needed in the provision of quality service.

(c) Teachers of nursing are well versed and qualified to teach and practice the
Nursing Process Model.

(d) The Malaysian Academy of Nursing to participate in the implementation process
of the Nursing Process Model by providing leadership and capacity building.

(e) By 2016, all employers of new nursing graduates have a right to expect the
graduates to possess at minimum four basic nursing competencies, to be
referred to as ‘Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for New Graduates’. The four
nursing competencies are: critical thinking and problem solving, knowledge-
based practice, clinical competence and accountability and ethical practice, all
of which are included in the Nursing Process Model.

agenda Five

By 2020, the degree to diploma nurse population ratio be at least 60% : 40% to
ensure:

1. The provision of the highest quality of professional care to clients through the
implementation of the Nursing Process Model;

2. Maximum possibility of achieving the profesional status classification within the
government service structure; and

3. Maximum possibility of achieving nursing autonomy through the provisioin of care
based on nursing orders (over and above doctors’ orders) throughout the system.