UP Nursing staff join workshop on Competency Based Education for technical working group revising nursing curriculum

Cambodia nursing education consists of the theoretical and practical training provided to nurses with the purpose to prepare them for their duties as nursing care professionals. The ministry of health offers an associate degree in Nursing by following curriculum in year 1998.

Curriculum guidelines provide a framework for graduate-degree nursing programs to meet the health care challenge of a new century. On January 16th 2020, the ministry of health with the support from USAID and fhi360 launched a workshop on Competency Based Education for technical working group revising nursing curriculum for Associate Degree of Nursing. This program will be schedule to meet every month.

This program was joined by all universities include University of Puthisastra and regional training centers which offer ADN program with the goal of complete competency based education revision in one year time period. This requires monthly meeting to discuss about curriculum revision process.