Project for Capacity Building of Nursing Services Phase 2
Health
Bangladesh
December 21, 2021
March 26, 2022, to March 25, 2026
Directorate General of Nursing and Midwifery Services (DGNM), Bangladesh Nursing and Midwifery Council (BNMC)
The People's Republic of Bangladesh, the most densely populated country in the world with a population of approximately 160 million people, has 3.6 nurses per 10,000 people (in 2020), well below the level of 44.5 per 10,000 people, according to the World Health Organization. To improve this situation, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pledged in 2009 to increase the number of nurses in public healthcare institutions. In parallel with the increase in the number of nurses, the Bangladesh government also revised its nursing education system in 2008 to improve the quality of nurses and introduced a bachelor's degree nursing program system (4-year program) as university education.
JICA implemented the Project for Capacity Building of Nursing Services (Phase 1) from 2016 to 2020, providing technical assistance to the Directorate General of Nursing and Midwifery (DGNM) in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Dhaka Nursing College, the hub of nursing education in Bangladesh, and Dhaka Medical College Hospital, the country's largest public hospital, which the nursing college belongs. In Phase 1, activities were conducted mainly in the following three areas: strengthening the capacity of nursing administration and expanding the accreditation* program, improving the capacity of lecturers and clinical practice supervisors for the bachelor's course education, and improving the enhancement of the acceptance system at the clinical practice at the hospital. Then, JICA launched the Project for Capacity Building of Nursing Services (Phase 2) in March 2022. In Phase 2, the Project will expand its target to a maximum of eight nursing colleges (tentative) in Bangladesh. In addition, we will support the post-graduate careers of nurses based on a long-term perspective, such as the development of career paths for nurses with DGNM.
The quality of nursing education is improved in Bangladesh
Implementation system of nursing education is strengthened at the target public nursing colleges and hospitals
[Output1]
1-1. | Investigate the current situation of nursing administration in Bangladesh and specify issues for sharing experiences of Japan. |
1-2. | Formulate a career path for nurses. |
1-3. | Promote nursing college accreditation. |
1-4. | Train organizational and administrative nurse managers/administrators in selected issue. |
[Output 2]
2-1. | Assess the situation of public nursing colleges and determine the target colleges. |
2-2. | Establish the system for improving the quality of teachers skill (mentoring, teaching quality evaluation) in the target public nursing colleges. |
2-3. | Establish the system of strengthening clinical nursing practices. (Coordination with CNTs (clinical nurse teachers) in the collaborative hospitals in the target public nursing colleges.) |
2-4. | Strengthen the system of promoting nursing research activities. |
2-5. | Provide subject-based nursing for nurse educators (ex. fundamental nursing, community nursing etc.) |
[Output 3]
3-1. | Assess the situation of implementation of clinical nursing practices and in-service training on clinical nursing. |
3-2. | Practices at the collaborative hospitals which accept students from target nursing colleges.Conduct CNTs training. |
3-3. | Provide in-service training for nurses to improve clinical practices. |
3-4. | Establish the system for promoting CNTs training and deployment as well as in-service training on nursing clinical practices. |
3-5. | Make policy recommendation regarding clinical nursing practice system. |
[Output 4]
4-1. | Share the knowledge (such as training tools) of Phase1 and Phase2-output2 for strengthening the implementation system of nursing education. |
4-2. | Share the knowledge (such as training tools) of Phase1 and Phase2-output3 for capacity development of CNTs. |
4-3. | Support organizing forums and seminars for capacity development of post graduate nurses (Possible theme will be instruction method for newly graduated nurses, fundamental nursing skills and others.) |