Contact: Derek Thomson, CEO, EMMS Nazareth

Tel: 009724 602 8815

website: www.emms.org

EMMS Nazareth was established in 1841 to pioneer and support the medical aspect of Christian missionary work. It has supported the medical training of over 400 Christian medical students with a view to them serving with missionary societies throughout the world. Many of these students started new medical clinics abroad, some of which developed into mission hospitals. One of these hospitals, the Nazareth Hospital, founded in Nazareth, Israel in 1861, continues as an EMMS owned hospital to this day.

The Nazareth Hospital is a Christian institution, independent of church denomination or political affiliation, which exists to glorify God and be a witness to His love as manifested in the life and teaching of Jesus of Nazareth. The hospital aims to serve all who seek treatment without prejudice to any religious, ethnic or social background.

The hospital has a large nursing staff comprising local nurses trained to both practical and Registered nurse standard, plus a number of overseas nurses with various specialities.

Qualifications and Experience

Israeli licensing requirements mean that in order to practise all nurses must be locally registered. To achieve this nurses and midwives must pass the appropriate Israeli examinations, which are now only produced in Hebrew.

However if a nurse or midwife wished to spend time at the Hospital as a volunteer, they would be able to do so, but at the standard of an advanced aide nurse. This would mean that they would not be able to undertake many of the normal nursing duties, meaning that many of their talents would go unused. For midwives it also means that they would not be able to actually deliver babies, but only work in the ante natal and post natal care on the Maternity Ward, as an advanced aide nurse.

Terms of Contract

Visa requirements restrict volunteers to a maximum of 9 months in Nazareth. They may get an extra 3 months if they are willing to leave the country for a while, but even this does not guarantee more time.

Flight expenses are paid by the volunteer, though the Hospital will pay for transport from the airport. The Hospital also provides board and lodging and a small stipend or "pocket money" of 300 NIS per month (approx US$75). This would pay for essentials only, volunteers would have to provide for any travel and sightseeing they would like to do while they are here.

How to Apply

To CEO of the Nazareth Hospital:
Mrs Najla Hamati
Administrative Office
Nazareth Hospital EMMS
PO Box 11
Israel

Tel: 00 972 6 6028817
Fax: 00 972 6 6575912
Email to: ChristineFarah@nazhosp.com