BSN in Nursing Sciences

The program grants its alumni a bachelor’s degree in nursing while simultaneously preparing students to receive certification as a registered nurse (RN)by succeeding on the Israeli government’s exam.

Place of studies: Theoretical studies, including attaining experience in a clinical simulation lab, take place at the Ruppin Academic Center campus. Practical clinical studies take place at a variety of medical centers and hospitals, such as Hillel Yaffe, Meir, Laniado, and Ichilov, among others, with students learning both in the wards and in the community.

About the field: Nurses play a central role in therapeutic and support activities in the healthcare system. Nursing staff works in a dynamic environment that requires the ability to make decisions in real time. This ability is dependent upon acquiring and developing broad professional knowledge in various fields, developing critical thinking skills, and the abilities to evaluate changing situations and diagnose a patient and build and implement a suitable treatment plan. This is done in cooperation with professional partners who also are active in the healthcare arena. The nursing staff is active in many different fields such as health promotion, convalescence, preventing complications and rehabilitation. The goal of treatment and support are to provide a high-quality of professional response to the sensitive physical and emotional needs of patients and their families.
The constant growth of the Israeli population and rising life expectancy require ever-increasing human resources in the field of nursing and the expansion of academic frameworks for professional education in the national healthcare system. At the same time, the rapid, complex progress of technology in treatment and medical treatment methods  have broadenednursing staff’s areas of responsibility and authority significantly.
About the program: The department’s vision is to educate a new generation of professionals who are endowed with a principled approach, situational awareness, and social involvement and who consider nursing a challenge, mission, and profession that also is a way of life. In addition to their training as skilled nursing professionals, the program’s alumni acquire managerial abilities and sensitivity to human and community values.

Goals of the program:

• To grant academic and professional knowledge, skills, and thinking tools required in the complex, dynamic environment of the different components of healthcare systems: hospitals, medical centers, community health centers, clinics, healthcare cooperatives, and more.
• To educate nursing students to have a broad view and possess multidisciplinary knowledge in life sciences, medicine, behavioral sciences, social sciences, and management.
• To develop students’ ability to make decisions at the clinical and managerial level.
• To educate nursing professionals who operate with a clear ethical code and to equip them with values and sensitivity to the needs of the individual and community.
• To provide the skills required of researchers and educators in the field of nursing.
• To prepare alumni to continue their studies and specialize in specific areas within nursing.