Nursing is a profession that focuses on the care of individuals, families, and communities so that they can achieve optimal health and quality of life according to modern health standards.
Rufaida bint Saad Al-Aslamiya is considered the first nurse in Islam. Rufaida received her training and gained experience in medicine at the hands of her father, a doctor, to whom she regularly provided assistance as she nursed the wounded in her tent in wars in which Muslims were a party. And I received a fighting man's arrow as a special honor from the Prophet Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace.
Florence Nightingale (Nurse the Lamp) is known as the pioneer of modern nursing. She learned nursing in school and fought to establish foundations and laws to protect the nursing profession and work to develop it. She was awarded the Medal of Merit in recognition of her long career in serving the sick and wounded.
The scientific and technological progress that has occurred in the health field has led to the expansion and ramification of the role of the nurse, as he now provides:
· Comprehensive care for the individual during health and illness, as this care includes the physical, psychological, social and spiritual aspects.
· Teaching the patient and his family and providing them with the necessary guidance to prevent diseases and improving their health. Teaching other categories of the nursing staff.
· Participate in developing a comprehensive and integrated plan for health care for the individual, family, and community. Participate in scientific research in health care.
· Coordination of health services.
· Managing nursing services and supervising nursing staff members.
The University of the Middle East, which was distinguished by the number of leaders in several specializations, took a distinct step upon itself to open the nursing specialty in response to the need of society and the world and for the number of elite nursing leaders, the heart and pulse of health care.
Nursing program: 134 credit hours. Students are trained in college laboratories and specialized hospitals to ensure the achievement of the specialization outcomes that qualify the graduate with scientific and practical competencies and prepare him for the global labor market.
Due to the importance of honoring male and female nurses, May 12 of each year was chosen to celebrate International Nurses Day.
What are the advantages of studying nursing?
The bachelor's program in nursing enables students to study and practice nursing in an integrated and specialized manner by providing students with basic scientific knowledge and intensive practical clinical training to provide comprehensive nursing care for the individual, family, and community in cases of health and illness.
The program qualifies distinguished graduates in the nursing specialty according to approved international standards and the use of modern technology to prevent diseases and raise the level of health, which enables them to work at the local, regional and global levels.
Fields of work for nursing graduates
Medical sector:
· Governmental and private hospitals
· Public and private clinics
- Medical centers
Health prevention sector:
· Health care centers
· Treatment and rehabilitation centres
· Motherhood and childhood centres
· Family planning centers
· Scientific research centers
Fertility centers
Academic teaching:
- Schools
- Institutes
- Universities
Why major in nursing at Middle East University?
· An integrated study plan to qualify graduates to enter directly into the labor market
· Providing the latest educational and research laboratories
· Providing a distinguished and specialized academic staff
· Providing modern technical halls
· Agreements and partnerships with centers and hospitals for practical training purposes
· Diversity of core academic courses to include internal and surgical nursing, critical care, children, maternity, elderly care, society and management.
· Training courses supporting the specialization through the Office of Career Guidance and Graduate Follow-up/King Abdullah Development Center.