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           agenda ten

               By 2011, the Malaysian Academy of Nursing shall be established as an independent
           professional institution as well as a leading institution of nursing devoted to upgrading and
           maintaining quantity care to clients via high standards in nursing education .

           Strategies
           1.     The Ministry of Higher Education is to endorse and support the establishment of the
               Malaysian Academy of Nursing to be done through the following mechanisms:


               (a)  Formation of a PROTEM COMMITTEE

               (b)  Drawing up of the CONSTITUTION of the Academy

               (c)  Making formal APPLICATION TO THE REGISTRAR OF SOCIETIES for the
                    establishment of the Academy.

               (d)  RECRUITMENT  OF  FELLOWS  on  approval  of  the  establishment  of  the
                    Academy.

           2.    The provision of financial support will have to come from the Ministry of Higher
               Education to facilitate the establishment of the Academy in the initial stages.

           3.    The Academy to be named as the MALAYSIAN ACADEMY OF NURSING will
               admit nursing leaders from education, management, research and clinical practice
               with minimum qualification of a Master’s degree in Nursing.


           agenda Eleven

               By 2015, the Nursing Board of Malaysia shall become Nursing Council of Malaysia
           whose chairman shall be a Nurse selected by the Minister of Health from a group of highly
           qualified nurses in the country and who, in addition, has extraordinary leadership qualities
           that makes it possible for the council to function independently of the Ministry of Health.

           Strategies
           1.    A working paper shall be prepared to outline the critical issues underlying the need
               for change from a Nursing Board of the Ministry of Health headed by a medical
               doctor to a Nursing Council, independent of the Ministry of Health headed by a nurse.
               The Malaysian Academy of Nursing, with the support of the Ministry of Health, shall
               be responsible for initiating the change process.


           2.    On the basis that the council must serve the interest of the nursing profession and
               legal aspects of nursing practice and that its autonomy depends almost entirely on
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