Nursing

Nursing education in Bahrain began in 1959, and the Nursing Department (ND) at the College of Health and Sports Sciences (CHSS) has since grown into a recognized training hub in the region. In 1990, it became the first World Health Organization Collaborating Center (WHOCC) for Nursing Development in the Middle East and later joined the Executive Committee of the WHOCC network. The ND also serves as an International Training Center for Basic Life Support in partnership with the American Heart Association.

The Department employs innovative, flexible, and student-centered teaching models that empower students to become decision-makers, problem solvers, and critical thinkers. Faculty members and graduates work in an environment of mutual respect, maintaining competence, seeking to improve nursing practice, and actively pursuing personal and professional development.

The Nursing Department includes expert academic staffs with various speciality in nursing education and practice such as Advanced Practice, Critical Care, Adult Care, Midwifery and women’s and newborn health, Cardiac nursing, Emergency nursing, Psychiatric, and Community nursing. The academic staffs in the Nursing Department have extensive years of clinical experience before their work at the university in different health facilities with a range of academic degree, which provides the department with a group of competent professors in the Nursing field, facilitating the department progression for further development and improvement and being in line with the international progress in Nursing education