Introduction.

College Historical Background.

college mission.

college objectives.

 

 

Introduction:

The past few years has witnessed effective initiatives introduced by the government of Saudi Arabia. These initiatives aimed at developing the health services and creating the human resources to work in the health care sector. To meet these aims, the government focused its efforts on increasing the number of the educational and health training institutions by improving the ability of the medical and applied medical colleges, community health colleges, and other colleges to provide opportunity for more students through out the Kingdom. They also increased the variety of educational programs that lead to different degrees and are suitable for both technical and specialized jobs.

The strategy of human work force development in the health sector has targeted the national resources in all current health majors. Despite all these efforts, the current ratio of Saudis among the workers in the health sector is less than the anticipated ratio, which means that more efforts are needed to achieve Saudization. The Ministry of Health statistics in 1421/1422 H show that the total of nurses, "the largest sector in the human health resources", is 67,421. The ratio of the Saudi nurses is about 20% and most of them are associate diploma holders.

 

          

 

History of the College

      The Department of Nursing at King Saud University started as one of the eight academic departments of the Applied Medical Sciences College in 1396 H. It was the first nursing program in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Despite the low interest of students in the Applied Medical Sciences in general, and in nursing science in particular during that era, the College of Applied Medical Sciences continued to offer these majors striving to meet needs of highly academic qualified Saudis to provide a comprehensive and direct health services to all society members in all health settings and at all levels of care. 

            
      In 1407/1408 H., a Master of Science program in Nursing was established with six nursing majors. A number of students have graduated and are now occupying leading nursing positions throughout the Kingdom. 

         
      Following the experience gained by the Department of Nursing in preparing students over the years, and appreciating the importance of nursing science as one of the vital and most needed majors in the provision of health services, the Department of Nursing was converted to an independent college by Royal Order in 1425 H. The College of Nursing currently consist the following four departments:

* Medical-Surgical Nursing Department.
* Maternal-Child Health Nursing Department.
* Community and Mental Health Nursing Department.
* Administration and Nursing Education Department.

These departments are academic educational departments that play a major role in graduating students with a general (B.Sc.) and specialized degrees (M.Sc.) in Nursing Science.

 

           

 

College Mission:

The mission of the Nursing College at King Saud University is to provide students with educational programs that focus on the quality of teaching and learning. The College will provide the students with the opportunities and proper guidance to enable them to acquire the essential knowledge and skills to become qualified nurses. The College of Nursing also aims at enabling the graduates to face the challenges during the practice of nursing profession in all settings, through the use of critical thinking abilities and learning that evidenced-based within the context of Islamic principles.

 

 

College Objectives:

The objectives of the nursing college are to:

1- Prepare skillful and qualified nurses that will be able to provide nursing care according to the international standards.
2- Provide educational experts and teaching staff.
3- Improve the students' advanced nursing skills in providing a comprehensive and therapeutic nursing care.
4- Develop the students' skills of therapeutic problem solving.  
5- Prepare students that are committed to provide comprehensive health care for individuals and groups based on Islamic principles.
6- Improve the students' abilities of judging the clinical cases using their critical thinking abilities and evidence-based  practice.
7- Develop the personal and professional skills of continuing education.