NURSING DEVELOPMENT
Situation Analysis
There have been several meetings initiated
by the Jordan University, with the
participation of all health sectors (MOH, JU,
JUST, RMS, private hospital syndicate and
nursing syndicate), to discuss the
regulation of the nursing profession
including certification, licensure, and
accreditation. The MOH will be leading in
preparing and calling for a national meeting
to develop the national strategy for nursing
profession, that will also be supportive to
the activation of the Higher Council for
Nursing.
The Directorate of Health in collaboration
with the PHCI project - an USAID funded
project, had revised the ssociate nursing
curriculum and had put special emphasis on
the PHC side rather than the previous
hospital-based nursing curriculum.
During the last two years, the Diploma Level
(36 Months) assistant nurses (18 months) in
hospital based schools) have been
discontinued and replaced by the Associate
Nursing Program, which is supervised by and
linked to the Al Balqa University. This
program allows the student to bridge to
universities for another two years
university program, to get the Bachelor
Degree.
DET and PHCI are working on improving and
reviewing the midwifery program during the
coming year.
As for the continuous nursing training,
DET-MOH is providing through the next
biennium, 12 Training courses for nurses,
mainly in the remote PHC Centers, providing
nursing education bulletin quarterly,
conducting visits to other countries for 4
people, buying some nursing journals and
providing the DET with a data show for
continuous education.
Main achievements and constraints
One of the PHCI components is to improve the
quality of nursing services through
training, guidelines, protocols, standards
and continuous education. PHCI project is
also providing (in its training component) a
6-month PHC training program for trainers,
who will work in PH Centers and provide
further training to other employees.
Priorities
-
Development of the national strategy for
nursing.
-
Development the plan for strengthening
midwivery services.
Indicators
- A
strategy on nursing
-
formulation of the national council for
nursing
- Number
of nurses trained.
