The nursing department works closely with its partners to collaborate on various projects and initiatives and to implement sustainable development. The nursing department at the College of Health and Sports Sciences was redesignated as a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre (CC) for Nursing Development (WHOCC) in August 1990. The designation is subjected to renewal every four years. Th Nursing Department received its redesignation which is valid to September 2022.
The Collaborating Centre was the first in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) and remained the only Center in the Arab Gulf region. The centre contributes to the WHO’s sustainable and strategic goals and objectives in supporting and enriching the nursing and midwifery education and healthcare service in the country and the region.
In 2019, the center contributed to delivering several activities targeting the public midwifery workforce with the objective of upskilling the midwifery workforce in the region in collaboration with WHO and support WHO in scaling up the capacities of primary care midwives. To be more specific, this activity aimed to enhance midwives’ practices in primary health care settings (antenatal settings) consistent with the WHO actions to achieve the SDGs and universal health coverage.
