Well, it's easy... nowadays, every places on earth having the same problem which is the shortage of nurses... Some of nurses migrated to other countries... and some, no nurses at all..
From what I saw in the internet, they are some hospitals in Malaysia have closed even the ICU, few wards and operation theater.. why? No ones to take in-charge of patients there... and not enough nurses to be filled in such wards... so, the only way is, by closing few those wards...
I am not a nurse yet, but I am asked to make an assignment and research regarding this... I should say, few things should be implemented to nurses... As in, the pay... regardless the certificates either it's diploma or degree or even doctoral... but compared Malaysia to other countries like Saudi Arabia, nurses in Saudi Arabia is paid high enough compared to nurses in Malaysia... I guess this is why most Malaysian nurses moved out to Singapore and Saudi Arabia.. see the difference... Nurse in Saudi Arabia is paid for 12000 SAR which is equals to RM10900.19 per month... while in Singapore, nurses are paid for 3500SGD which is equals to RM8532.32... this shows that, nurses in Malaysia are paid low compared to other countries..
Compared to teachers who work for few hours in school, and brings back the work to home, and mostly happened to be so free without work are getting paid so high... while nurses whom work 6-8 hours per day, with shift some more... got pay such low than a teacher... is it fair? I guess it's unfair... Teachers get holiday easily... but nurses have to ask for a holiday... but nurses get paid low compared to those teachers... So, I think it's more than enough to prove that why nurses in Malaysia get interested to work in some other countries....
Then, I think... Malaysia should atleast have one International school of nursing... that specializes in nursing... so that it is easier for our country to recruit our own nursing students... so that Malaysian government does not need to fully support student in private colleges if they had already their own nursing school... it will save loads of money...
Maximize in students intakes... From what I see, nursing course are having the intake only once a year... which I think is not enough to recruit and cover the shortage of nurses... They should at least have five intakes in a year.. so that more nurses will be seen to cover the shortage of nurses...
Else like, nursing promotion is much important too... school leavers should be exposed to nursing so that they will get to know more about nursing career and will gain their interest in nursing... Government should start to promote nursing as shortage of nurses is sort of big problems to all of us...
I think that's enough for me to talk about... Since now, I am a nursing student, I should say, everyone should implement something good instead of building new and new hospitals and clinics to cover the shortage of nurses... Nursing is a profession, and I am not regretting on choosing it to be part of me in path of my life.... ;P