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2. Malaysia Overseas Delegation Visits while studying at
the Nursing Division, Ministry of Health Malaysia a. 16/01/2017
a. 2 delegates from Sultan Qaboos University, Oman in
collaboration with Mahsa University b. 09/09/2017
b. 4 delegates from Health Ministry of Republic of Maldives
Source: Nursing Division, MoH

REGULATORY

REGISTRATION
Registration Unit is a unit in the Nursing Board Malaysia (NBM), which handles the registration process
for nurses from MoH Colleges, Public Higher Learning Institute (IPTA), Private High Learning Institute
IPTS and Private Colleges who has passed the Nursing Board Malaysia (NBM) and Midwifery Board
Malaysia (MBM) examination. Total of 6,580 nurses have been registered in the year of 2017, in which
consists of 5367 Registered Nurses, 89 Community Nurse, 87 Assistant Nurse and 1037 Midwifery
Part 1 (Figure 43).

Figure 43
Statistics of Registration Nurses in the NBM and MBM for 2017

Source: Nursing Division, MoH

ANNUAL PRACTICING CERTIFICATE (APC)

Annual Practicing Certificate (APC) is issued to all nurses which would carry out Nursing Practice in all
hospitals/Institution in the public and the private sectors that have registered with the Nursing Board
Malaysia (NBM) and work with Malaysia employers only. In 2017 a total of 124,373 Annual Practicing
Certificate (APC) has been issued, 89,562 APC for the Government Nurses and 34,811 for Private
Nurses (Figure 44).

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