Mission:

To provide training in the specialties "Nursing", "Midwife" and "Health Care Management" of the educational qualification degrees "Bachelor" and "Master". 
Participation in training in the specialty "Public Health and Health Management" of the educational and qualification degrees "Bachelor" and "Master".
It organizes postgraduate training courses for healthcare professionals.
Maintains and develops the scientific potential of the academic staff in the Department.

Disciplines taught by professors in the Department:

For the "Health Care Management" and "Public Health and Health Management" majors

• Mandatory
  • Health care theory;
  • Health care management;
  • Health projects;
  • History of health and health care
• Freely selectable
  • Dimensions of Nursing Practice;
  • Health needs of the population;
  • Quality of the informational and documentary activity
  • Public relations 

For the specialties "Nurse" and "Midwife"

• • Philosophy and Introduction to Nursing;
  • Philosophy and Introduction to Midwifery Care;
  • Practical Fundamentals of Nursing;
  • Practical foundations of midwifery care;
  • Social medicine and health promotion

Scientific research work

Defended dissertations for the educational and scientific degree "Doctor of Medicine"

• • "Organization of emergency medical assistance in Bulgaria" - Kolechka Shopova, 1980;
  • "Surgical and orthopedic methods and means of treatment in Southeastern Bulgaria" - Penka Ivanova, 1987;
  • "Strategies and technologies in the continuous education of nurses" - Magdalena Alexandrova, 2006;
  • "Organizational and ethical aspects of health care in primary care" - Ivanka Stambolova, 2006;
  • "Quality of nursing care in the hospital" - Galina Chaneva, 2006.

 Participation in projects

• • Project of the PHAR "Domestic care" program of the BRC - Iv. Stambolova, G. Chaneva;
  • World Bank Project "Health Promotion" - Iv. Stambolova, G. Chaneva;
  • Project of the PHAR program "Restructuring of the paramedical sector in Bulgaria" - Iv. Stambolova, G. Chaneva;
  • "Tempus" program, "Specialization for semi-graduate medical specialists" - Iv. Stambolova, G. Chaneva;
  • Project "Educational program Procter/Gamble" - Nadka Vasileva;
  • Bulgarian-Swiss program "Hygia" - A. Terzieva, Eq. Budinova, P. Bikova, Il. Alexieva.;
  • Project under the "Matra" Program - Em. Kikarina 

Published monographs and textbooks

• • Modern trends in the training of nurses - M. Alexandrova;
  • Health care management /Practical guide/ - G. Chaneva, Iv. Stambolova;
  • Handbook on the quality of health care - G. Chaneva;
  • Technical sheets and protocols for health care - Iv. Stambolova, G. Chaneva;
  • Basics of nursing and midwifery care Iv. Stambolova, G. Chaneva et al.;
  • Domestic care - Iv. Stambolova, G. Chaneva et al.;
  • Public relations – P. Ivanova;
  • Ethno-medicine and public health – P. Ivanova;
  • History of medicine and health care and social work - P. Ivanova, M. Apostolov;
  • Christomatia in history of medicine – P. Ivanova, M. Apostolov;
  • Museum work in medicine and health care development - P. Ivanova;
  • History of medicine and nursing - P. Ivanov