Personal Info
- Country of residence: Jordan
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Adiba Jeries Muslim, the first
Jordanian nurse, was born in Shefa Amr in 1917 AD and spent her childhood
there, then moved to the city of Nazareth, where she joined the Evangelical
Missionary Orphanage School and studied there in elementary school. She completed
her high school studies in Birzeit in 1934. She joined the nursing school of
the Evangelical Hospital in Nablus and graduated in 1937 as a registered nurse.
the job
She worked in the special department
for English patients of the Government Hospital in Jerusalem. She also worked
in hospitals and clinics in Jaffa, Gaza and Ramleh. In 1949 she was appointed
as an official in the pediatric department at Augusta-Victoria Hospital for a
period of five years. She moved to Jordan in 1954 to work as a teacher at the
Jordanian School of Nursing, which was established in 1953. She was dispatched
in 1954 to the United States to study at Syracuse University, where she
graduated with a Bachelor's degree with honors in Nursing. Accordingly, she is
considered the first woman to hold Jordanian nationality to obtain a Bachelor's
degree in Nursing. In 1958, after her return from abroad, she was appointed
Director of the Jordanian School of Nursing, where she continued in this
position for ten years, after which she worked as Director of the Directorate
of Nursing at the Ministry of Health, and she remained in this position until
she retired in 1977.
Achievements and Awards
Honor
King Abdullah II bin Al Hussein
honored her with the Centennial Medal at the Independence Day celebration on
May 25, 2021.
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