Objectives:

• Prepare competent, professional nurses in the general and specialties of medical surgical clinical settings.
• Provide postgraduate nursing studies to upgrade the cognitive and psychomotor skills of professional nurses to be in line with the current days changing health care.
• Find proper innovative methods to solve patient problems through scientific critical thinking and holistic approaches.
• Prepare students to be self-motivated.

Scientific Degrees:

The department offers special courses needed to award the following scientific degrees:

• Master in Medical Surgical Nursing.
• Doctorate in Medical Surgical Nursing.
• Diploma in Burn Nursing.
• Diploma in Nephrology Nursing.
• Diploma in Peri-operative Nursing.
• Diploma in Oncology Nursing.

Skills Labs:

The department has specialized skills labs which are prepared with the most recent models, simulators, scientific apparatuses and visual aids. These labs include:

• Three Fundamentals Medical Surgical Nursing Labs (A, B and C).
• One Medical Surgical Nursing Lab and OSCE lab.