Nurse practitioner

A nurse with postgraduate training who examines, diagnoses and prescribes within a defined scope after nursing.

• Advanced clinical assessment
• Diagnosis
• Advanced pharmacology
• Chronic case management

In Arabic: الممرض الممارس

Examples of graduates’ jobs, not a full or ranked list. A job is an occupation; the major is one route to it:

• Primary care nurse practitioner
• Paediatric nurse practitioner
• Emergency nurse practitioner

Professional classification and registration with the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties.

GASTAT does not publish pay for each major; this is the average for the “Health and welfare” field among Saudi bachelor’s holders, 2024 (1445–1446 AH)³.

Unemployment among Saudi graduates of the field (bachelor’s, all ages)³:

• 20211442–1443 AH8.2%
• 20221443–1444 AH8.0%
• 20231444–1445 AH7.5%
• 20241445–1446 AH6.5%

For the whole field, not this major alone. Past measurement, not a forecast.

Example programmes abroad

• University of Sydney, Master of Nursing (Nurse Practitioner)
• University of Toronto, Post-Master Nurse Practitioner Diploma

• Nurse practitioner tops the list of fastest-growing occupations in the United States between 2025 (1446–1447 AH) and 2035 (1456–1457 AH).⁴