Nursing education programmes in SEAR, 83kb

All countries in the South-East Asia Region offer a nursing training programme. Programmes
offered include Auxiliary Nurse Midwife Programme, General Nursing or General Nursing and
Midwifery or Diploma in Nursing and/or Midwifery Programme, Bachelor of Nursing, Post-based
Bachelor’s in Nursing, Masters Programme in Nursing (Nursing Science) and PhD or Doctoral
Programme in Nursing Science. The table below shows programme title, entry requirement and
duration.
Table : Nursing programmes offered in South-East Asia Region
Country

Programme

Bangladesh Diploma in Nursing
Science and
Midwifery
Bachelor of Nursing
Science and
Midwifery
Bhutan
Diploma in Nursing
and Midwifery

DPR Korea
India

Indonesia

Maldives
Myanmar

Nepal

Post basic Bachelor
Degree in Nursing
Diploma in Nursing
Diploma in Nursing
and Midwifery

Entry
requirement
12th grade
direct entry

Duration
(months)
36

Title of
graduate
Nursemidwife

Note

12th grade
direct entry

48

Nursemidwife

NM integrated
Started 2008

12th grade in
science
Direct entry

42
(7-month
midwifer
y)
24

Nursemidwife

Diploma in
Nursing
11th grade
Direct entry
12th grade
Direct entry

Bachelor of Science in 12th grade
Nursing and Midwifery Direct entry
Diploma in Nursing
12th grade
Direct entry
Bachelor of Science in 12th grade
Nursing
Direct entry
Diploma in Nursing
10th grade
Direct entry
Diploma in Nursing
11th grade
and Midwifery
Direct entry
Bachelor of Science in 12th grade
Nursing
Direct entry
Certificate in Nursing
10th grade

Direct entry
Post basic Bachelor
Certificate in
Programme in
Nursing and at
Nursing (BN)
least 3 years
experience
Bachelor of Science in 12th grade
Nursing
Direct entry

24
36

Nursemidwife
Nurse

36

General
Nursemidwife
Nursemidwife
Nurse

48

Nurse

36

Nurse

36

Nursemidwife
Nursemidwife
Nursemidwife
Nursemidwife

48

48
36
24

48

NM integrated
Started 2008

Nursemidwife

Midwifery
course included
Midwifery
course included
Institute of
Health Science
NM integrated

NM integrated
NM integrated
NM integrated

NM integrated

Sri Lanka

Thailand

TimorLeste

12th grade
Direct entry
Bachelor of Science in 12th grade
Nursing
GCE passed
direct entry
Post basic in Nursing
Technical

nurse
Bachelor of nursing
12th grade
Science or equivalent
Diploma in Nursing
12th grade

36

36

Nursemidwife
Nursemidwife
Nurse

Bachelor of Science in 12th grade
Nursing

48

Nurse

Diploma in Nursing

48

24
48

Nursemidwife
Nursemidwife

Sri
Jayawardepura

NM integrated
Institute of
Health Science
National
university of

Timor Leste

Note :
Auxiliary Nurses Midwifery programmes are available in India and Nepal.
Master programmes in Nursing are offered in India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal and Thailand
Doctoral programmes in Nursing are offered in India, Indonesia and Thailand