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Enhance The Attractiveness Of The Nursing Profession Initiative

PFAC overview

About the initiative

The nursing profession is one of the most important components of the health service, where the health of community members is closely related to the quality and efficiency of the nursing workforce, which plays an important role in preventive and promotional care to confront chronic and infectious diseases. Accordingly, the Ministry of Health and Community prevention launched the “National Initiative to Enhance the Attractiveness of the Nursing Profession” as one of the initiatives emanating from the ministerial retreat in 2015. Distinguished health that suits the environment and culture of the country and helps implement plans to promote nursing profession among nationals

Objectives

  • Attracting and retaining national cadres to work in the nursing profession by providing an attractive work environment

  • Providing nursing education programs and specializations in institutions of higher education covering all emirates of the country

  • Promoting the profession advancement of the nursing profession in the community, especially among the youth.

Expected outcome

  • Increasing the number of nationals nurses in the country in various health institutions

  • Reducing the leakage of national nursing cadres into the nursing profession

  • Raising the satisfaction rate of citizen nurses and service recipients

  • Increasing the number of nationals enrolled in these programs and graduating national cadres specialized in nursing sciences

  • Raising awareness and promoting a positive image of the nursing profession

  • Increasing the number of students enrolled in nursing programs in higher education institutions and the demand for them

Initiative Axes

The initiative to enhance the attractiveness of the nursing profession contains three main axes:

1- Education

This includes the role of education and training in making nursing an attractive profession for the national cadres, and it starts from the early stages of general education, university education, and continuing education during service, by offering specializations in the nursing profession.

2- Awareness and media

This includes communication and media programs of all kinds to be implemented and increase awareness about nursing, its specialized tracks, and prospects for professional and career development in it. This is to change the image of the nursing profession in general and of the national nursing cadre in particular

3- Motivation

This includes legislation, regulations and controls that contribute to motivating and making nursing an attractive profession

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