Perception of faculties regarding improvement of nursing education system in Bangladesh

The fundamental focus of nursing education programme is to produce nursing professionals that are clinically competent and can contribute widely to the provision of quality and safe nursing care. Multifaceted strategies are needed for up to date and up to international standards. This research work will shed light on the direction of these strategies. A cross sectional study was design to determine faculty’s perception regarding improvement of nursing education system in Bangladesh. From 14 nursing educational institutions 195 faculty members were selected for this study using multistage sampling. The study was carried out from January to December, 2020. A pretested semi structured questionnaire based on study objectives were used to collect data. Distributions of the socio demographic status of the respondents were females 92.8% (n-181) and males 7.2% (n-14). Their mean age was 48.2 years, SD= ± 5.89. In educational level 94.4%, (n-184) of the respondents were post graduates, 4.6% (n-11) were graduates. This study reveals 92.3% respondents recommended for improvement of admission criteria, 99% were recommended for development of PhD programme and 100% were mentioned to establish a nursing university, 97.9% of the respondents had mentioned to developed a curriculum that reflect more technology oriented, 99.5% for patient safety and professionalism, 97.9% had mentioned for international accreditation. Among all respondents 69.2 % mentioned about lacking of clinical teacher, 99% had mentioned to establish a teacher’s training college, 96.4% faculty perceived that periodic faculty appraisal should initiate. Educational qualification of the faculty members showed significant relations with maintaining of teacher student ratio according to world health organization (WHO) guideline (p-value=0.026), designation of the respondents showed significant relations with faculty development programme (p-value=0.039), age of the respondents showed significant relation in health information technology (p-value=0.03), supportive staff (p-value=0.01), shortages of faculty (p-value=0.03). We need for reviewing and guiding nursing education system. It will also help the policy makers to evaluate the perception of faculties and take necessary steps to optimize nursing education system. This study concluded that many of the fields of nursing education system need improvement to strengthen nursing education to produce more competent nursing workforce which will be an important part of health system in Bangladesh.