UMMC Department of Nursing Science
Education in Kuala Lumpur

Department of Nursing Science was first established in 1993 as a Nursing Unit under the Department of Allied Health Sciences. Upon completion, graduates are expected to practice nursing knowledge critically and ethically by applying scientific nursing foundation in health care delivery. With this vision we hope to produce nursing graduates with research culture and practice evidence based nursing. Ever since its information the unit has been involved in teaching undergraduate courses leading to Bachelor in Nursing.
The Vision of the Department is to be the pioneer in producing Nursing leaders to meet the country’s aspiration and bring changes in the healthcare system and nursing profession. It was the first nursing unit to recognize the importance of bacculaurate education in nursing and became the pioneer in the transition in the nursing education from a diploma to a graduate program, Bacherlor of Nursing Science in Malaysia.
The Unit was established as a clinical department: Department of Nursing Science in Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya on the 1st July 2007.