Department's Overview | The Mission | Philosophy | Divisions
Department's Overview
Tawam Hospital is A 407-bed tertiary care facility (expanding to 500 beds) caring for all specialties, with the exception of cardiac surgery. Tawam is also the Oncology referral center for the United Arab Emirates and other Gulf States.
The Department of Nursing is divided into three major divisions:
Medical, Specialty and Oncology Services, including Primary Health Care and Polyclinics (Outpatient Department)
Surgical, Women and Children Services
Support Services
Our Nursing team is composed of multi-disciplinary, culturally diverse staff members. There are approximately 33 nationalities from all over the world among +900 staff members.
Nursing Standards of Practice are based on international standards. Nursing services are provided in an atmosphere of collaboration, both interdependently and independently with other healthcare disciplines; to provide a quality, cost-effective, individualized and coordinated healthcare service to all patients throughout the organization.
Our mission is to strive to provide a safe, effective, quality healthcare to our patients in a compassionate and culturally sensitive manner.
We respect the values of each person to determine his/her health choices and the right to participate in their plan of care.
Nursing is a dynamic profession, which will nurture an environment conducive to learning, strengthen our practice and allow us to consider the patient as the primary focus of our endeavors.
Nursing is a dynamic profession, which nurtures an environment conducive to learning, strengthens our practice, and identifies the patient, and their family, as the primary focus of our endeavors.
The individualized needs of our patients are met by providing safe, effective, quality care, in a compassionate and culturally sensitive manner utilizing a goal directed multi-disciplinary plan of care.
As an advocate, the nurse ensures that the patient and family are afforded privacy, respect, dignity, and confidentiality in death, as in life.