The Nursing Division and Its Activities
The Nursing Division – you have someone to count on and trust
The Nursing Division outlines nursing policy and concerns itself with the development of the profession in 6 different departments, in order to promote the nurses and the well-being of the patients.
About the Nursing Division
The Nursing Division is a ministerial body that was established in 1994 within the framework of the Ministry of Health. The Divisions directs and leads the nurses' sector in the State of Israel that numbers about 85,000 people and that constitutes the beating heart of the healthcare system. Its main calling is to outline nursing policy within the framework of stately trends, participating in the Ministry of Health's strategic plan and promoting it. Furthermore, the Division takes focused action to increase the numbers of nurses, to strengthen their professional development and to realize their functional potential.
Our vision
The Nursing Division is committed to strengthening and enhancing the contribution of the nurses to the health and well-being of the residents of the State of Israel, to maintaining a high standard of excellence, quality and safety and to promoting a work plan for strengthening and enhancing the three main core areas in the nurses' work that constitutes the main leverage for the reinforcement of the healthcare system in Israel: increasing the number of academic nurses, professional development of nursing practitioners and realizing their functional potential.
The nursing profession
- is independent in treatment.
- is a full partner in the treatment process.
- is an integral part of the treating staff.
- places the patient at the center of the care and at the core of its work.
- increases accessibility to healthcare services and decreases inequality.
- paves the way for the implementation of new and innovative technologies.
- leads and influences changes in the various challenges facing the healthcare system.
Destination and directions
- Outlining a policy that reinforces the centrality of nurses in patient care in Israel.
- Providing an extensive response to the changing needs of the healthcare system: adjusting nurses' roles and responsibilities to meet changing needs and trends in the system, upgrading the nursing services by providing professionals with basic and advanced training courses, as well as reinforcing the nurse training array and the processes of maintaining nurses' professional capacity.
- Setting the bar for the nurses' required level of knowledge through the State Nursing Board Licensure Examinations and setting professional standards that guarantee excellent and safe nursing practice through professional guidelines.
- Tightening the bonds with practicing nurses in the full range of their professional areas, accompanying and supporting them at every junction in their professional career by providing them the tools, training, support and skills necessary for carrying out their duties in the best way possible, as well as taking actions to enhance leadership in nursing and to develop an administrative core in both hospital and community settings.
- Promoting a view of patients and their families at the center of care, all the while displaying clinical excellence and human compassion: nurturing nurses' participation in a multi-disciplinary staff that generates innovation and creativity, in order to create a safe environment and to ensure high-quality care, all the while staying up-to-date and maintaining professional capacity and clinical skills.
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Day-to-day activities and the Division's structure
The Nursing Division works in coordination with on-the-scene practitioners from all disciplines, directors in healthcare establishments and organizations, clinicians of the highest level, senior nursing staff in active service and in nurse-training facilities (in education), and a multi-disciplinary staff within the Ministry of Health's ranks and without, all the while basing its work on policy-supporting research.
National Head Nurse and Director of the Nursing Division
Dr. Shoshi Goldberg
Call.Habriut@moh.health.gov.il
Coordination and Organization Coordinator
Ms. Shani Levi
Call.Habriut@moh.health.gov.il
Head of Organization, Coordination and Quality Control
Ms. Tammy Anuka
Call.Habriut@moh.health.gov.il
The departments of the Nursing Division
Resgistration and Licensure Department
Licensure Examination Department
Professional Development Department
Department of Regulatory Nursing Guidelines
Workforce Regulation Department
Department of Information and Data Systems
Nursing Innovation, Surveillance, and Research Department
The legal status for nursing practice in Israel
Registered nurses in Israel performs all the actions allowed them according to any law, with a view to promoting health, preventing sickness, treating healthy and sick persons throughout their life cycle, in routine times and in emergency situations, including evaluation and diagnosis of deviation from the desired state of health; saving lives; providing treatment; maintaining the intactness of the therapeutic continuum; rehabilitating; providing counseling, guidance and support; managing treatment; participating in the treating staff; supervising and controlling; promoting research and the implementation of research findings; and performing any other actions usually performed by a registered nurse.
The practice of nursing and midwifery professions in Israel is anchored in both primary legislation, secondary regulations and the Ministry of Health's circulars and protocols. The profession's practice and uniqueness appear in the Public Health Ordinance, 1940, in the Physicians Ordinance 5737-1976, in the Midwives Ordinance, 1929, in the Pharmacists Ordinance, 5741-1941, in the Public Health Protection Regulations, 5741-1981 (Nursing Staff in Clinics), in the Public Health Protection Regulations 5749-1989 (Nursing Practitioners in Hospitals), and elsewhere.
Currently, the Nursing Division is working to draft the Nurses Law that will regulate and anchor by primary legislation the entirety of the practice of nursing profession in the State of Israel.
Applications to the Nursing Division
Requests can be forwarded to the Ministry of Health's Hotline at *5400, 08-56555969, fax: 02-5655969.
The Nursing Division processes public requests in professional matters pertaining to nursing regulation:
Examinations, licensing and certification, recognition of professional status, specialization, professional competence and accreditation of courses for purposes of continuing education reward.
We strive to process every single request personally and efficiently and we undertake to respond to individual requests within up to 14 days from the date of their arrival in our offices.