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On Higher Nursing Education

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by Kalkaman Ayapov and Galina Beisenova

Health system restructuring in Kazakstan has provided for nursing restructuring as well, beginning with a transformation in the nursing vocational training system. Significant changes have been made, and we are proud of our success.

Nursing Education Issues In Kazakstan

We identified challenges such as:

  • low salaries and poor qualifications;

  • a drastic decline in the prestige of nurses (especially in recent years) and their exodus to other fields;

  • a lack of integration of the educational process with practical public health, and a scientific imbalance between educational plans and the realities of practical public health;

  • a lack of a well-defined system of medical personnel management and training.


    • Considering these problems, we've set the following goals:
  • development of nursing as an independent branch of medicine on the basis of nursing education reforms;

  • development of a new generation of nurse training; expanding the scope of nurses' duties with a view to medical care differentiated from the physician's role; and expanding opportunities for teaching, organizing and research and development work;

  • developing higher education to implement a system of continuous, multi-level training of specialists.

  • Further tasks have been defined: revision of the educational plan; further training of the teaching staff; transition to the sub-faculty training system of students; strengthening college material and the technical base; joint work with the public health sector in specialist training; and revision of specialists' professional-level quality control.


Kalkaman Ayapov, MD, is Director of Almaty Medical College, Galina Beisenova is Deputy Director, Almaty Medical College Almaty, Kazakstan



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