The department of Midwifery and Newborn Nursing is looking forward to achieve distinctiveness and leadership in the areas of Nursing education, scientific research, and
Advanced professional practice of its graduates, so as to keep pace with the times and meet the requirements of the community.

The goals of the department of Midwifery and Newborn Nursing cover three main areas: education, scientific research, and community service. Thereby, the department aims at training cadres that are capable of providing professional services in the field of nursing, contributing to scientific development, working on skill development in nursery, and most importantly promoting health care services in Libya.

1. Applying nursery skills to assessment and diagnosis of health problems of patients.
2. Training cadres that are highly qualified scientifically, academically, professionally, morally, and ethically to make sure they are capable of taking care of patients and who ever needs help in the area of nursery, as well as keep up with the times and the rapid scientific development.
3. Using therapeutic nursing techniques.
4. Utilizing Leadership and Management Skills to promote the level nursing and health care services.
5. Applying behavioural as well as scientific skills and utilizing them to provide the best nursing services possible.
6. Helping patients to meet their health needs and adapt to health changes associated with illness.
7. Applying values and ethics of nursing.
8. Promoting Community perceptions on the profession of nursing.
9. Providing nursing care to all segments of society in the areas of preventive and curative health care, as well as clinical treatment.
10. Establishing a substantive link between nursing sciences and health problems, and cooperating with the medical team.
11. Promoting the ability of identifying the clinical conditions of patients through scientific
surveys, evaluative thinking, and evidence-based logical analysis.

Training highly-qualified cadres in terms of knowledge and practical training of the essential skills needed in the area of epidemiology and infection control aiming at boosting the level of public health in the community

1. Providing educational programs that are based on modern perceptions of the science of epidemiology and infection control, and fulfilling the aspirations of the community.
2. Training highly competent, skillful specialists in epidemiology and infection control.
3. Conducting field-based research about health problems, and disseminating knowledge with a view to promoting the community.
4. Developing the skills of technical personnel in the area of field epidemiology through continuous training.
5. Providing advisory services to health institutions about issues related to the various fields of the science of epidemiology.

1. Epidemiological monitoring of infectious diseases, and measuring their infection rates in the community.
2. Conducting surveys, as well as field research about diseases, pandemics and various contagious diseases.
3. Initiating contact tracing of patients of contagious diseases, and taking the preventive measures towards the contacts according to health systems.
4. Using International Classification of Diseases for coding diseases, infections, and deaths in the community.
5. Participating in research studies related to health problems through making interviews, collecting and analyzing data, and formulating results of studies.
6. Playing a role to the evaluation of the quality of health services with aview to promoting them.
7. Measuring health indicators related to diseases, deaths, and the functioning of health centres.
8. Participating in the implementation of programs associated with the control and eradication of diseases in cooperation with the health team.

The department believes that theoretical knowledge and practical skills are both essential for training highly qualified epidemiologists that take the responsibility of safeguarding the community from epidemic diseases with a view to promoting public health in the community.

Achieving distinctiveness and leadership locally and internationally by training well-qualified competent clinical nutritionists that take the responsibility of providing nutritional treatment to individuals and groups in the various health institutions, as well as distinctive reseach programs in the area of therapeutic feeding at the local and international levels.

The department seeks to train highly-qualified professional cadres that are capable of working in the various health institutions, providing distinctive services in the area of therapeutic feeding, practicing the profession of nutrition and health care, and obtaining international appreciation and recognition of the outputs of the department and its graduates.

Nutritionists must be professionally trained by paying great attention to both the scientific and practical parts of their training, in a way that enables them to manage the status of the patient and find out the appropriate nutritional program for their health condition. Nutritionists must also be capable of introducing nutritional information to individuals and the community accurately and make awareness-raising nutritional programs aimed at changing bad nutritional behavior and habits into good ones.

1. Identifying psychological, economic, social, and health-related factors associated with the nutritional status.
2. Cooperating with doctors in support of the treatment of the medical conditions of patients.
3. Formulating nutritional plans and calculating nutrients to meet the nutritional needs of different age groups.
4. Working with patients individually and formulating personal nutritional plans for each one based on their health condition and needs.
5. Providing nutritional guidance and education, as well as promoting preventive food behavior for individuals and the community.
6. Encouraging healthy eating habits, and improving the quality of life through simple clever choices.

The department of General Nursing is a department in the faculty of Nursing-Misurata University. This educational institution provides students with an invaluable opportunity for professional learning as well as the educational grounds they need for personal and professional development, given that challenges increase due to the continuous changes and developments in the health sector at the local and international levels. There was a shift in the role of nurses within hospitals in particular, and the community in general due to the rapid development in technology and the increasing needs of the community for more health services with a view to covering those needs and working on the development and promotion in health care fields.

The department aims at becoming a center of excellence that contributes to the promotion of nursing and training highly qualified cadres with scientific and practical skills enabling them to keep pace with the rapid developments of the world. Therefore, the department seeks to maintain the quality of nursing education, as well as encouraging faculty members in the department to conduct research studies in furtherance of nursing education and the development of health care services.

Preparing a generation of highly qualified graduates that are capable of working in the profession and achieving scientific and skill development in nursing, as well as improving the health standards in the community.

1. Using nursing skills in the diagnosis and evaluation of health problems of patients.
2. Training students with the required qualifications academically, scientifically, ethically, and cognitively to take care of patients and provide their services to the community in general, in addition to keeping up with the times, and achieving scientific development.
3. Using therapeutic nursing techniques.
4. Using management and leadership skills to promote the quality of nursing and health services.
5. Applying the scientific and behavioral skills acquired in the provision of nursing care.
6. Helping members of the community in the satisfaction of their health needs, and supporting them with advice to help them adapt to their new health status and changes that come alongside with disease.
7. Applying values and ethics of Nursing.
8. Promoting community perspectives of Nursing.
9. Providing nursing care to all segments of society in spheres of preventive, curative and clinical care.
10. Creating a substantive link between nursing sciences and health problems.
11. Supporting capacity-building for evaluating clinical cases through scientific surveys, evaluative thinking, and evidence-based logical analysis.

The department of Psychiatric Nursing in the faculty of Nursing – Misurata University is looking forward to achieve leadership among the various departments in the faculty in terms of scientific research, community service, and education in accordance with the highest standards of quality control. Accordingly, the department aims at training highly competent distinctive graduates that are capable of dealing with the community in general, and with psychiatric patients in the various health institutions.

The department aims at achieving a set of goals including:
1. Studying sociocultural factors affecting the behaviors of individuals, families, and societies.
2. Giving students the opportunity of identifying normal and pathological behaviors and how to adapt to them within the sociocultural context.
3. Studying psychological problems and providing health care to them considering all age groups, as well as identifying chronic psychological and mental illness and providing the necessary health care to them.

1. Offering high quality distinctive educational courses that contribute to preparing students to graduate with the skills needed for career success and promoting their intellectual scientific, and methodological abilities.
2. Promoting the abilities of students in the areas of communication, time management, research, and self-development.
3. Strengthening the principles of commitment, discipline, and responsibility, as well as promoting the principles of leadership, confidence and entrepreneurship.
4. Building a positive therapeutic relationship between patients and psychiatric nurses.
5. Using communication techniques efficiently.
6. Evaluating the psychological and behavioral status of the patient, and their temperament.
7. Setting therapeutic behavioral limits on acceptable interaction and communication among patients.
8. Dealing with the various psychological and mental health problems and providing appropriate nursing care to them.

The department of Psychiatric Nursing is looking forward to achieve distinctiveness through paying great attention to lectures, skill development, research workshops on psychiatric nursing, education seminars about problem solving by presenting medical cases of patients in the community to identify them and learn how to deal with them and provide them with appropriate nursing care.

Based on our belief that the disabled and people with or who need prostheses are among the most important segments of society, we aimed at doing our best to provide the necessary health care and services they need in a way that creates a more supportive environment, one promoting their full integration into society.

The department of Prosthetic Limbs aims at training highly-qualified cadres that are highly trained scientifically and practically in a way that enables them of acquiring the skills and techniques needed for providing the best health care services to the various kinds of people under this segment of society. In addition, the department is looking forward to keep up with the times and be up-to-date with the rapid developments in the field.

1. Supporting our country with highly qualified cadres that are capable of evaluating the conditions of people with various types of disabilities and providing them with appropriate Prosthetic Limbs or medical assistive devices according to their clinical conditions.
2. Improving the quality of life for patients, and supporting patients with disabilities from illnesses or injuries to become relatively more independent.
3. Doing the best we can to reduce obstacles for patients and help them overcome difficulties, search for why such difficulties exist and find appropriate solutions for them.
4. Putting a lot of effort into taking care of people with prostheses limbs and providing them with special services that compare favorably with services that could be provided abroad, thus ensuring their comfort and helping them avoid the trouble of travel and movement.

Providing distinguished education and preparing graduates specialized scientifically and professionally to achieve quality in medical laboratories, qualified to serve the community, and capable of self-development and competition in the labor market.

• Rehabilitation and preparation of the student and providing him with theoretical information and scientific and practical skills to work in the field of medical laboratories, diagnostic equipment and quality assurance in laboratories in line with scientific progress in this field.
• Motivate, encourage and support graduates to interact with the community, self-learning ability, prepare and publish scientific research, and actively participate in training programs in the fields of medical laboratories and health care.
• Participation in community service programs and health awareness development in the field of medical laboratory sciences.
• Responding to the requirements of the labor market by preparing specialists with high quality competence that meet the needs of the labor market in the field of medical laboratories such as microbiology, clinical chemistry, diseases, blood banks, tissues, tumor markers and genetic diagnosis.

We seek to achieve and cultivate the following values: professional ethics, respect, and appreciation, credibility, sincerity and commitment, discipline, responsibility, self-esteem, self-confidence, teamwork, initiative, self-change, quality, and sustainability

(Creativity, excellence and leadership in medical laboratory sciences and contribution to community service).