Nursing Education, Practice, and Research in Lebanon

Nursing is a dynamic and challenging profession that requires compassion, competence, and skills. Like many other health professions, the nursing profession is constantly evolving, resulting in the emergence of new extended roles of the nurse, requiring new skills and competencies. Nurses constitute the largest group of healthcare professionals worldwide. Challenges to this profession make it difficult to set regional priorities for policies and research development. In Lebanon, it is imperative to make adjustments to nursing education and practice to cope with these changes and optimize the workplace ergonomics for nurses, thus, improve work environment, the quality of nursing care toward patients and the nursing profession’s longevity. Moreover, recommendations should be evolved regarding several aspects of the nursing profession in Lebanon, starting from educational engineering to good nursing practice, to several other aspects including the development factors of the profession, the recognition of specialized nurses, continuing education, and nursing advocacy role.