Aims of the program                                                            

The program aims to:

1. Preparing qualified nurses trained to provide specialized nursing care to meet the needs of society and the labor market.
2. Raising health awareness by enhancing the student’s leadership role in society and their participation in improving the quality of health care and keeping pace with professional developments
3. Qualifying students with the nursing knowledge, skills, and necessary attitudes to fulfill their role in society and solve problems related to their future work
4. Providing students with specialized information and skills that help them evaluate and solve patient problems to enhance the quality of health care
5. Establishing interactive partnerships with local and international educational organizations to provide an effective training environment that contributes to produce a graduate with nursing and specialized qualifications.
6. Refine students’ abilities in effective communication skills with patients, colleagues, and health team members
7. Preparing nurses who possess professional nursing ethics and morals, who believe in the values of work perfection and honesty, and who are able to embrace it and work in the spirit of one team.
8. Preparing competencies that capable of dealing with the technological information and modern techniques.
9. Preparing students to deal with advanced curricula compatible with international curricula.

The Program Mission

The program seeks to prepare a qualified nurse graduate with general and specialized nursing competencies that allow him to provide general and specialized high-quality nursing care by utilizing his acquired competencies that meet the needs of all levels of local, regional, and international health institutions with distinct competitive efficiency, keeping pace with global developments, strengthening scientific research mechanisms, as well as self-and continuous education skills, and using of research evidence and community service.

The Program Vision

Achieving excellence in specialized nursing education to meet the needs of society, keeping pace with progress in various sciences, and keeping pace with the labor market locally and internationally.

General conditions for admission

The faculty is subject to the admission system of Egyptian universities in force in the country, and in order to accept male or female students, they must meet the following conditions:

1. The student must have a high school in science or equivalent certificates, in accordance with the rules and regulations determined by the Supreme Council of Universities.

2. The student must be dedicated to studying.

3. The first foreign language the student studies must be English.

4. Passing aptitude tests in accordance with the rules and regulations determined by the Supreme Council of Universities

5. Passing the medical examination (the student must be free of physical or mental disability, chronic diseases, or infectious diseases, and there must be consistency between the student’s height and weight

6. International students are subject to the same general conditions for admission as their Egyptian counterparts and in accordance with the rules set by the Supreme Council of Universities.

Justifications for creating the program

The Bachelor of Nursing Sciences (Specialty) program was created for the following reasons:

• The results of labor market studies for service beneficiaries revealed that a graduate of nursing education must have the specialized skills that serve the community and meet its needs. Therefore, the program was created to qualify graduates to provide high-quality nursing care with a focus on a nursing specialty chosen by the student and based on the needs of society.

• There is a severe shortage of jobs for nurses specializing in various clinical educational fields, which is reflected in the level of education and practice.

• There is a severe shortage in the category of professional nurses who have graduated from nursing colleges, which has led to a shortage of specialized nurses to work in subspecialty branches such as critical care and emergency nursing, obstetrics nursing, women’s health, as well as oncology nursing, pediatric care nursing, and most branches of specialization.

• Implementing the recommendation of the International Council of Nursing, which stipulates that qualified nursing specialists must manage all nursing services in healthcare institutions of all types and that basic, post-basic, and specialized nursing education programs should be performed by specialized nurses who are educationally and technically qualified.

• The program provides the student with the knowledge, skills, and competencies that qualify for work after graduation in the general and specialized nursing field by providing the opportunity to be creative and use research evidence in nursing practice to meet the needs of the patient and develop health care for the community.

Conditions for admission to the program

• Must have a bachelor’s degree with an acceptable cumulative grade point average ( D+ ) equivalent to 60%, preceded by a high school diploma in science

• The student’s first foreign language must be English

• Passing admission tests in accordance with the standards approved by the Nursing Sector Committee

• Passing the prescribed medical examination and examinations provided that he is free of physical and mental disabilities

• Passing the qualifying courses to join the program if they were not studied in the first university cycle

Duration of the study

- The duration of the study to obtain a Bachelor’s degree in Nursing Sciences (specialized) is eight semesters (semester duration is 16 weeks) or when the student fulfills the requirements for obtaining the degree, including the minimum number of years of study of is three years and half, all in accordance with what is determined by the internal regulations of the colleges.

- After obtaining the bachelor’s degree, the student must pass the internship year, which is a calendar year (12 months) in May, with 36 actual hours per week (Bachelor of Nursing Honors List).

- The Faculty Council may agree to open a summer semester, provided that the number of students is not less than 5 students in the course and does not teach nursing courses that have practical training.

- The duration of the summer semester ranges from eight to nine weeks (provided that the number of weekly hours for each course is doubled). The student registers for the semester for 9 hours, and only two additional hours are allowed in the event of graduation.

The Study system

1. The study system in this program is a credit hours system that is based on competency-based academic standards

2. The study in this program is divided into:

a- Study of general nursing (fundamental nursing, adult nursing, obstetrics and gynecology nursing, pediatric nursing, community health nursing, geriatric nursing, psychological and mental health nursing, nursing administration) (Major 104 CH).

b- Specialized study (academic paths) where the student chooses a nursing specialty from the specializations offered by the faculty. (Minor 46 CH).

3. The Faculty Council may decide to teach one or more courses in the hybrid education mode after taking the opinion of the relevant department council and depending on the nature of the academic courses. So, the study in the course is 60% face-to-face and 40% in the distance education system.

4. The study is in the English language.

5. The student’s graduation certificate writes the specialized that he studied in the academic paths, in addition to his studies in general nursing.