Heart Failure Certificate
Knowledge, training and powers to make clinical decisions in the field of heart failure.
An advanced course in heart failure deals with the management of treatment for patients with heart failure and groups of patients who are at risk of developing heart failure.
The advanced course program in heart failure focuses on acquiring clinical skills of performing an estimate, diagnosis, evaluating a patient's condition, managing the follow-up and treatment of heart failure, preventing complications and guiding patients to promote health and quality of life, in the treatment of heart failure patients. As part of the course, you will acquire knowledge in epidemiology, pathophysiology, and managerial and economic aspects involved in the treatment of heart failure patients.
As part of the clinical experience, you will acquire skills to care for patients, at the various stages in hospitalization and in the community, and you will get to know the work in a multi professional team model, the experience will focus on the integration and application of the learned material, while practicing clinical decision - making, treating a patient suffering from heart failure in a multi professional team, managing treatment and meeting needs unique in patients with heart failure in acute and chronic conditions.
Curriculum
The curriculum includes 398 hours, of which:
246 theoretical study hours.
152 hours of clinical experience.
Prerequisite for applying to the program:
- You are citizens or residents of Israel.
- You have certified nurse license in the State of 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 have passed the selection examination for the advanced courses in nursing with a score of 70 or higher and the score is valid (3 calendar years from the date of the exam) or if you are entitled to an exemption from a selection examination.
Tuition
Registration fee
See the registration fee for advanced courses and selection examinations in the relevant annual circular (Hebrew).
Learn more about the tuition for advanced courses
State licensure examination
After graduation and in order to register an advanced course graduate in the nursing register you must successfully pass the State Nursing Board Licensure Examination.
The content and the structure of the exam vary from course to course and are adapted to the field and knowledge acquired in them.
In this course you will pass licensing exams using a simulation method.
The simulation licensing exams include representative clinical situations, simulating reality, in order to solve them you must use the psychomotor and communication knowledge and skills you worked on in the course.
The exam includes a transition between different stations (simulations), which are determined according to the characteristics of the field of training you studied.
Among the different stations:
- Execution station simulator (dummy).
- Simulation station versus a player.
- An investigation station about the simulation against a player.
- Analysis station describing a clinical situation using a video/audio tape (computerized).
- Knowledge stations in front of a computer, 50 multiple choice questions ("American test)
The licensing exams in simulation for advanced courses are held at "Messer" – the National Center for Medical Simulation- the National Training Building for Health Workers at the Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer.
For more details on the exam day and additional instructions for the licensing exam
Where can you take the course
| Course Location | Course Opening Date | Course Days | Contact |
| Hillel Yaffe Academic School Hadera | 07/01/2025 | Tuesday | Ayala Levi Regarding gerontology and critical care courses: Regarding clinical instruction courses: |
| North Training Center (Rambam) | 02/01/2024 | Thursday | Ayelet Zohar a_zohar@rambam.health.gov.il Fax: 04-7773046 |
| Shamir (Assaf Harofeh) | 02/01/2024 | Tuesday | Maayan Natan nurseschool@shamir.gov.il |