About GulfNursePrep
GulfNursePrep publishes free, plain-English guides to the nurse licensing process in the Gulf — the Dubai Health Authority (DHA) licence in depth, plus the equivalent route through Abu Dhabi, the Northern Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and Kuwait. There are 104 of them today. None of them needs an account, an email address or a card.
We are independent — and that cuts both ways
We are not a licensing authority, a recruitment agency, a visa consultancy or a document service. We are not endorsed by, affiliated with or speaking for the DHA, DOH, MOHAP, SCFHS, QCHP, NHRA, OMSB, any Ministry of Health, DataFlow or Prometric. Nothing here is regulatory, clinical or legal advice.
That independence is why we can tell you plainly when a step is slow, expensive or avoidable. It is also why we cannot act on your application: we never handle your documents, submit anything on your behalf, or hold your money. Your application stays entirely between you and the authority’s own portal.
One consequence worth knowing: nobody can guarantee you a licence, and nobody legitimately sells the real exam questions. Buying or sharing exam content is an offence under the DHA’s own assessment rules and can end your application — we cover exactly what those rules say. If someone promises either, walk away.
How the guides are researched
Every guide is built from the licensing authority’s own material first — the portal a nurse actually has to use, and the published manuals and requirement documents behind it — rather than from forum posts or agency marketing. The desks the guides draw on:
- Dubai Health Authority (DHA) — the Sheryan portal and the DHA Manual for Professional Assessment
- Department of Health Abu Dhabi (DOH, formerly HAAD) — TAMM and the Professional Qualification Requirements
- Ministry of Health and Prevention (MOHAP) — the federal licence for the Northern Emirates
- Saudi Commission for Health Specialties (SCFHS) — Mumaris+
- Qatar Council for Healthcare Practitioners (QCHP/DHP), under the Ministry of Public Health
- National Health Regulatory Authority (NHRA), Bahrain
- Oman Medical Specialty Board (OMSB) and the Oman Ministry of Health
- Kuwait Ministry of Health — Medical Licensing Department
- DataFlow Group, for Primary Source Verification, and Prometric or Pearson VUE for the exam itself
Where a guide states a rule, it names the authority the rule comes from, so you can check it at the source instead of taking our word for it.
Why we don't print the fee, the pass mark or the question count
You will notice our guides describe the shape of a step — what it is, what it costs you in effort, what order it comes in, where people get stuck — and then send you to the official portal for the exact number. That is deliberate.
Fees, exam duration, question counts, pass marks, eligibility rules and processing times change without notice, and they differ by profession, category and nationality. A figure that is right the day it is written quietly becomes wrong, and a stale number in a guide is worse than no number at all when someone is budgeting a licence or booking a seat. So the changeable figures live on the authority’s page, where they are current, and we point you there.
What the “last reviewed” date on each guide means
Every guide carries a review date under its title, and the same date on the guides hub. It is the day we last read that guide against its official source — the authority’s own portal, manual or regulation — and confirmed or corrected what it says. It is not the day we fixed a typo or changed a link, because that would tell you nothing about whether the content is still true.
Use it the way you would on any licensing page: the older it is, the harder you should check the changeable details at the source before you pay for anything or book a seat.
What we deliberately don't publish yet
GulfNursePrep is building exam practice — a question bank, timed mock exams and worked explanations — but none of the clinical material is live, and it will not go live until a licensed registered nurse has reviewed it. That covers anything a wrong answer could actually hurt you with: pharmacology and dosages, medical-surgical, paediatric and maternity content, and disease or condition management.
We would rather make you wait than hand you a confident wrong answer weeks before a licensing exam you have paid for. It is also why the practice routes on this site currently sit behind an honest coming-soon page instead of showing you filler.
Live today: 104 free licensing guides, no account needed. Not live: practice questions and mock exams, pending clinical review.
Found something out of date? Tell us
Gulf licensing rules move, and we would rather hear it from you than leave a nurse acting on a stale page. If a step has changed, a portal has moved, or something in a guide simply does not match what the authority told you — send it to us and we will check it against the official source and fix it.