Email: head_health@ucas.edu.ps

Tel: (+970) 8 2624999 Ext:701

Fax: (+970) 8 2624222

P.O. Box: 1415 Gaza Palestine

Nursing

Seeks to prepare and train professional nurses to offer safe and special services in terms of health care to patients and families where they can attain , maintain, or recover better health and quality of life. The students will get training and practice in a wide diversity of practice areas. The students are trained on the skills of using the medical equipment and machines, and taught how to work directly with patients and their families. The students will perform frequent patient evaluations, including monitoring and tracking vital signs, performing procedures such as IV placement, phlebotomy, administering medications and other secondary care responsibilities. The students are prepared to deal with different work environments.

Surgical Technician

Looks for graduating a cadre who is able to work under the guidance and supervision of a surgeon. The students will be able to handle the instruments, scrubs, medications, and other supplies and equipment necessary during the surgical procedure. The tasks of the surgical technician includes ensuring that the operating room or environment is safe, and equipment functions properly. The students will be aware of complications of surgeries or anesthetization, and able to perform basic tasks such as checking patients' medical charts and consent forms, preparing sterile dressings, doing resuscitation and closing incisions.

Medical Secretary

Aims to prepare secretaries that work in a variety of environments such as hospitals and health centers, and mainly provides support and assistant to medical staff. The students will be trained on dealing with incoming and outgoing mail, answering phone calls and arranging appointments, writing letters or recording medical notes, ensuring medical samples are properly labeled, filing and typing up reports and correspondence as well as providing administrative assistance with medical research.

Nurse-Midwifery

Endeavors to prepare well-trained and qualified nurses and midwives who follow medical and professional techniques in terms of nursing and Midwifery. The students will recruit the basics of Mother's health and precautionary care during pregnancy and birth. The students will be able to put comprehensive plans that match the needs of mothers and children, diagnose pregnancy superventions, carry out first aids in case of emergencies, and make natural childbirths. The students will acquire necessary skills to operate and use different medical equipment, diagnose pregnancy disorders and how to deal with them, and identify various ways of Birth Control (advantages- disadvantages- side effects).

Anesthesia and Resuscitation

Aims at preparing assistants for qualified anesthesiologists to work in medical centers especially in hospitals. The students will be qualified to help the main anesthesiologist to develop and implement anesthesia care plans. They will be able to collect preoperative data and do many tasks related to operations as well as provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation in case of emergencies. The students will be able to provide assistance before and after the operation specially in monitoring patients, and function in the intensive care unit.

Dental Assistant

Seeks to graduate dental assistants to help dental operators and dentists in hospitals and dental clinics. The major trains the students on how to be the dentist's extra hand by doing the following tasks: prepare the patient for treatment, hold suction and other devices, sterilize and infect instruments and equipment, hand instruments to dentists during the procedure, expose dental radiographs,…etc. The students will be taught how to follow patient care and do some administrative work like keeping dental and treatment records, scheduling and confirming appointments, and ordering dental supplies and materials.