Background: Risk management is highly needed in higher education in general and in nursing education in particular. This is because nursing education is facing many risks that urges universities and colleges to change their strategies and plans. One of the recent risks that nursing education is facing in Oman and all around the world is the COVID-19 pandemic. The spread of COVID-19 has forced nursing colleges to change their plans. Aim: This article aimed to describe the experience of one nursing college in Oman during the COVID-19 pandemic and how it responded to this crisis. In addition, this article explored the barriers in implementing risk management process/policy and steps needed to develop the risk management process. This article also presents more lessons learned and recommendations to strengthen future risk management plans for the higher education institutions (HEIs), particularly for the nursing programs. Design: A literature review was done related to risk management in higher education in general and in nursing education in particular. The experience regarding the steps of mitigating the educational process during the peak of COVID-19 pandemic in one of the governmental colleges in Oman that provides nursing program was discussed in this article. Results: Despite that there were no clear policies or guidelines of a risk management system, the nursing program in the college was able to develop a contingency plan to deal with the wide-spread of COVID-19 and restore nursing education. The plan included shifting learning from face-to-face teaching to online teaching, postponing of clinical practicum, and others. Plans and strategies implemented during the pandemic were successful to some extent. Conclusion: Risks are inevitable and, therefore, risk management system should be part of any higher education institution (HEI), especially for those with professional training and/or clinical practicum. Adopting a new plan is risky by itself and it needs great