Enrollment and Admission Conditions for Advanced Nursing Courses
Meet the conditions for admission
Are you interested in taking an advanced nursing course and develop professionally? See below the enrollment and admission conditions.
The Nursing Division operates advanced nursing courses in various clinical fields as response to the challenges of the healthcare system, the changing needs of the Israeli population and the developments in the field of technology and healthcare.
Advanced nursing courses constitute the infrastructure that allows nurses to make clinical decisions, solve problems, promote health and provide professional, safe and high-quality care, based on knowledge and skills iin the various therapeutic outlines.
The process of enrollment and admission to advanced nursing courses is performed in the nurse-training institutions, while the Nursing Division is responsible for developing, constructing and operating the courses array.
- You are an Israeli citizen or resident.
- You are a licensed registered nurse in Israel.
- You have a bachelor's degree in nursing.
An accredited degree in nursing is a degree accredited by interinstitutional committee at the Salary and Employment Agreements Department at the Ministry of Finance. The list of degrees is updated from time to time in the circular: "Academic degrees accredited for salary purposes in the civil service, Clalit Health Services and Hadassah Medical Center and Shaare Zedek Medical Center - nursing" (Hebrew). - You passed the selection examination for candidates for post basic nursing courses with a score of 70 or higher, and your score is valid (within 3 calendar years from the date of the test), or if you are eligible for exemption from the selection examination.
- In certain courses there are additional prerequisites. See the full list of courses.
Exemption from the selection examination
You may be eligible for exemption from the selection examination for candidates for post basic nursing courses, if you meet the following conditions:
- You have an accredited PhD degree in the State of Israel.
- You are a graduate of an advanced nursing course in Israel taken within the 5 years preceding the enrollment year to the advanced nursing course that you wish to take now.
- You are a graduate of a nurse practitioner program in Israel.
- You completed the registered nurse licensure examination with a score of 70 or higher in the 4 years receding the enrollment year to the advanced nursing course that you wish to take now.
To complete the enrollment process to the courses, you will need to present the following documents to the institution that offers this course:
1. A certified copy of your license as a registered nurse with a permanent certificate from the Nursing Licensure Registry.
2. A nursing diploma attesting to an accredited academic degree (including an accelerated BSN nursing program) – submit one of the following documents:
- A certified copy of a diploma attesting to a nursing academic degree from one of the accredited institutions of higher education in Israel that is recognized by the Council of Higher Education.
- A certified copy of a certificate attesting to eligibility for a nursing academic degree, signed by an accredited academic institution in Israel that is recognized by the Council of Higher Education.
- Holders of a nursing academic degree on behalf of an accredited international institution of higher education – certified copy of a certificate attesting to eligibility for a nursing academic degree, attached to a certificate of the Committee for the Evaluation of International Academic Degrees and Diplomas in the Ministry of Health, attesting to the equivalency of the degree to an academic degree in Israel.
3. Certificate attesting to the completion of the selection examination for candidates for post basic nursing courses with a score of 70 or higher, taken within the 3 years preceding the year of enrollment to the course to which you currently enroll.
4. For graduates of accelerated BSN nursing programs - certificate of the nursing school or nursing course, attesting to the completion of an accelerated BSN nursing program in Israel.
Candidates who have been exempt from the selection examination shall attach the following documents:
1. Candidates who have an accredited PhD degree in the State of Israel – submit one of the following documents:
- A certified copy of a diploma attesting to a PhD degree from one of the institutions of higher education in Israel that is recognized by the Council of Higher Education.
- Holders of a PhD degree on behalf of an international institution of higher education – certificate by the Committee for the Evaluation of International Academic Degrees and Diplomas in the Ministry of Health.
- Certified copy of a certificate attesting to the completion of a nurse practitioner program in Israel.
2. A certified copy of a graduation diploma from an advanced nursing course conferred within the last 5 years before the year of enrollment to the course to which you currently enroll.
A certificate signed by the Nursing Division attesting to a score of 70 or higher in the registered nurse licensure examination f within the 4 years preceding the year of enrollment to the course to which you currently enroll.
You need to issue an examination score through the Healthcare Professionals Portal. If at the time of examination your score was not communicated on the Portal, you can contact the Department of Nursing Licensure Exams and request the score to be sent to your e-mail. You will need the application form for issuing a certificate attesting to the score on the licensure examination (Hebrew).
In advanced nursing courses where there are numerous tracks for clinical internship, the track is determined according to the students' previous clinical experience in the field at hand. In order to undergo clinical internship in the track that is most suitable for you, you will need to bring a declaration form (Hebrew), signed by the nursing director in the institution where you are employed, attesting to your period of employment in the field or in the ward at hand, and the scope of your employment. You will need to submit this form at the beginning of the study program.
Screening candidates for the advanced nursing course is both the responsibility and within the authority of the training institution where the course takes place.
For the institution to consider your candidacy, you must meet all of the prerequisites specified here.
You may become a priority candidate if you could provide a letter of recommendation on behalf of the institution that employs you (submit to them the form (Hebrew), on which they can submit a recommendation on your behalf).
You will receive a written notice about your admission or non-admission to the advanced nursing course.
The notice is only valid for that school year, meaning that if you have been admitted to an advanced nursing course and you did not realize your eligibility within the same school year, this eligibility will not be saved for you for the years that follow.
To be admitted to the course in another year, you will need to re-enroll and to meet all of the prerequisites at the time of re-enrollment.