The current nursing and midwifery education in Bangladesh
- VernacularTitle:バングラデシュの看護・助産教育制度の現状と課題
- Author:
Chiyoko Hashimoto
;
Yasuyo Matsumoto
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
strengthening the nursing and midwifery capabilities;
shortage of health professionals;
new curriculum for the Diploma Nursing Course;
Bangladesh Nursing Council
- From:Journal of International Health
2012;27(1):87-92
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
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Abstract:
In Bangladesh, the Bangladesh Nursing Council (BNC) legally decides the curriculum for nursing and midwifery education and appoints nurses and midwives.
The BNC had revised the curriculum in 2006, and it is currently educating based on a new curriculum for the Diploma Nursing Course.
In the new curriculum, the BNC aims at strengthening the capabilities of nursing and midwifery professionals according to the care needed by each patient, cultivating the critical thinking skills of these professionals, and addressing the needs of nursing and midwifery based on communities.
However, the shortage of health care professionals cannot be compensated only with the Diploma Nursing Course. Private nursing and midwifery education are being continued as Certificate Nursing Courses.
In Bangladesh, in the stage transitorium of nursing and midwifery education, it will be a subject how health talented people's shortage of quantitative is coped with with strengthening of the education for the quality enhancement of nursing and midwifery from now on.
