Abu Dhabi: The federal Ministry of Health and Prevention will hire seven nursing students who are bachelor degree holders and citizens.
The ministry will also grant 45 scholarships to qualified female and male secondary students in general and advanced branches who are planning to take up a bachelor degree in nursing.
Interested students must have a 70 per cent score average in the advanced section and 75 per cent in the general branch. In addition to monthly stipends of Dh4,500, the scholars will be assigned to a ministry-run hospital after graduation.
“The ministry is committed towards achieving the national initiative of enhancing the attractiveness of the nursing profession,” said Yousuf Al Serkal, assistant undersecretary for the Hospitals Sector.
“One of our most important achievements so far is to raise the interest of male students in this particular field,” said Sumaya Mohammad Abbas, a director of the ministry’s nursing department.
“In fact, our programme has five additional male students this year to reach a total of seven with the ministry aiming to increase the number further along with their female counterparts.”
As many as 13 female nursing students, 22 nurses in the Nursing Bridging Programme, and eight nurses in the Master’s programme are expected to graduate next year and will be assigned in various ministry-run hospitals located across the country.
According to the ministry, all applicants should contact the MOH Training & Development Centre in Sharjah to submit the required documents and facilitate their registration in select UAE universities.
