Alexnursing Faculty

WELCOME ABOUT THE FACULTY In 1955 an agreement was signed with the World Health Organization to establish the Higher Institute of Nursing which was affiliated to the Faculty of Medicine, University of Alexandria. The Higher Institute of Nursing became the first Higher Institute for Nursing in the Middle East and Africa. The teaching staff consisted of 5 American visiting nursing specialists and a director, who were assigned by W.H.O. Through the past 50 years, the Higher Institute of Nursing grew and by the year 1966, the director, as well as all the teaching staff members were Egyptians. They were 20 in number. They have reached one hundred and sixty-seven by the year and two hundred and twenty three till the year 2005. The first nurses who graduated from the Higher Institute of nursing in 1958/1959, were only five