Are you about to take a post-basic licensure examination? All the information is here before you: where to enroll, what you need to prepare for enrolling, issuing the examination notice and more.
The enrollment in post-basic licensure examinations is done through the Healthcare Professionals Portal.
At the end of each course, the educational institution submits the list of the program graduates who are eligible to take the examination. The list is submitted to the Nursing Division in a concentrated action, in order to allow graduates to enroll in the licensure examination.
- Authorization to test – Effective 1/3/2022, all graduates of advanced nursing courses will take a final examination testing their knowledge upon completion of the course at the training institution in which they studied. A passing score on this knowledge examination will be weighed in the final score and will be submitted to the Nursing Division by the training institution and will constitute a condition for authorization to test.
- This guidance shall not apply to examinees who take the examinations in clinical instruction, infection prevention, midwifery and CBT.
Having reviewed and confirmed the details, the Ministry of Health sends you login details to the Portal, where you could enroll in the examination in the following manner:
The login information that will be sent to you include:
- E-mail with a link to the portal + user name
- Text message (SMS) to your mobile phone with a temporary password
Upon initial login, you will not to change your temporary password with your permanent personal password.
Your user name and password will be used for any future login to the Portal
You must fill in the declaration forms below, according to the guidelines in the portal:
- Health declaration
- Criminal record report
Completion of these declaration forms constitutes a pre-condition for enrollment to the examination.
For your information, the Nursing Division contacts Israel Police to receive a criminal record report.
You must pay the licensure examination fee and licensing fee.
Payments are to be made through the Postal Bank or by money transfer to the Ministry of Health's bank account:
Postal Bank, Branch 001 Jerusalem, Account Number 0-025961
The amount for payment is specified in the portal.
After making a payment, you need to scan or photocopy the reference (the proof of payment) and to keep it in your records for the remainder of your enrollment process on the portal.
You must complete the enrollment to the examination on the Portal up to one month before the examination date. After that the Portal will be closed for enrollment. The enrollment actions include:
- Select an examination session – the examination sessions are listed on the Nursing Division's website. In advanced nursing courses where there are numerous examination dates, the Portal will only present one session and the placement in the various sessions will be made by the Department of Nursing Licensure Exams, according to constraints. The final date of the examination you will receive in your letter of summons.
- Select an examination language (you may only select Hebrew).
- Enter the payment amount and date + attach the proof of payment for the examination.
- If you eligible for extra testing time, you must upload the relevant documents at the time of enrollment. Further information about filing a request for extra testing time.
- Upon completion of the enrollment process, you will receive a text message (SMS) from the Nursing Division confirming the completion of the enrollment process.
To the actual examination, you need to arrive with your licensure examination notice.
Two weeks before the examination date you will have the option to issue a licensure examination notice.
This notice contains information about the examination: place, date and time, examinee number, examination hall's name, and extra testing time eligibility, if any. You need to print the licensure examination notice and to bring it to the examination with you.
Please note!
- It is your responsibility to keep the Nursing Division up to date in case of changes to your contact information, by calling the Ministry of Health Hotline at *5400.
- If you possess a mobile phone that cannot receive text messages (SMS), you can provide the mobile phone number of a trusted person who could receive text messages (SMS) for you throughout the process of enrollment in the examination, the summons to the examination and receiving the examination score.
- If you experience any technical issues, you can contact the Ministry of Health's Hotline (*5400).
- The following information is presented for your convenience. The Department of Nursing Licensure Exams in the Nursing Division maintains the right to make changes in the structure of the examination and the testing conditions from time to time.
- Passing the State Nursing Board Licensure Examination constitutes a condition for registration as graduates of an accredited continuing education program in nursing. This condition is stipulated in the regulations that constitute part of the Public Health Protection Regulations.
- Article 10 of the Public Health Protection Regulations, 1988 (Hebrew), states that: "Those who meet all of the requirements below are eligible for registration in the Registry in the Department for Accredited Continuing Education: (3) … They passed the State Licensure Examination held by the Department, and in the format determined".