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Nursing Department
Course Description
2015/2016
Course Number : (0901210)
Course Name: Fundamental of Nursing (Theory)
Number of credit hours: 3
This course is an introduction to basic nursing concepts and skills. Nurses today must
be able to grow in order to meet the demands of a dramatically changing health care
system. They need to utilize the nursing process, evidence-based practice; students
learn the specific concepts needed in the planning of nursing care addressing a client’s
cognitive, interpersonal, psychomotor skills, psychosocial and developmental needs,
protection, safety and basic physiologic needs.
Course Number : (0901216)
Course Name: Fundamental of Nursing (Lab &Clinical)
Number of credit hours: 3
This course provides the student with knowledge and practical application of basic
nursing skills while incorporating concepts learned in fundamental theory. Students
learn and practice basic nursing skills in personal care, sterile technique, patient
safety, documentation, and medication administration. There is major emphasis on
the critical elements of nursing procedures and the scientific rationale for performing
the procedures correctly.
Course Number : (0901221)
Course Name: Health Assessment (Practicum)
Number of credit hours: 3
This clinical laboratory experience helps students to develop health assessment skills,
including client health-history taking and physical examination. The legal and ethical
aspects of the examination and documentation will be included. Focus is on
interviewing skills and systematic performance, analysis and documentation of health
assessment process of the adult client. Clinical laboratory experience provides
students with a non-threatening environment in which to help them to apply their
knowledge of physical assessment to adult clients.
Course Number : (0901222)
Course Name: Adult Health Nursing I (Theory)
Number of credit hours: 3
The course introduces the students to the nursing care of patients with specific and
complex problems that affect the functional health patterns of an adult patient.
Emphasis will be placed on the impact of these conditions on an individual’s
functioning. The approach to the content theory is by way of presenting problems
related to meeting the basic needs of the patient and those arising from specific health
problems. The nursing process provides a framework for selected independent and
interdependent nursing interventions, including health promotion and lifestyle
changes.
Course Number : (0901228)
Course Name: Adult Health Nursing I (Clinical)
Number of credit hours: 3
This clinical practice course provides students with the opportunity to care for adult
with an alteration in functional health patterns in a variety of hospital settings utilizing
the nursing process. These conditions may be acute or long term and the focus will
be on selected concepts relevant to the functional health patterns, including:
nutritional-metabolic, stress & coping \cognitive-perceptual, patient safety ,
oxygenation ,pain management ,fluid &electrolyte, activity &exercise ,sleep & rest,
skin integrity, sexuality and elimination patterns.
Concept-based learning will be utilized to facilitate students’ clinical training .This
strategy will help enhancing students’ clinical reasoning essential for effective
problems solving and decision making related to different health problems.
Moreover, Students are expected to critical thinking, Communication skills,
psychomotor skills, and teaching – learning strategies in keeping up with current
literature, moral principles and integrated knowledge from theory into practice.
Course Number : (0901303)
Course Name: Nursing Health Education and Counseling
Number of credit hours: 2
This course has been developed to provide students with major concepts about
teaching, counseling and their importance in maintaining and promoting health.
Student will value nursing knowledge and communication skills in the process of
influencing clients thinking, attitude and behavior for enhancing their quality of
life.
This course will provide student with a guideline for the teaching process starting
from assessment till evaluation. Emphasis will be on development, implementation,
and evaluation of health education plan applied to individual, family or community.
Course Number : (0901321)
Course Name: Adult Health Nursing II (Theory)
Number of credit hours: 3
This course is presented over one semester as part of the Adult Medical-Surgical Nursing
course and is intended to follow Adult Medical-Surgical Nursing 1. This course and
Adult 1 are designed to introduce the student to nursing care of the adult suffering from
the most prevalent acute and chronic medical and surgical disorders, and provide
competencies about disease prevention, and restoration/ maintenance of a healthy
lifestyle. This course will focus on management of patients with renal problems,
management of patients with reproductive health problems, management of patients with
endocrine problems, management of patients with nervous system problems and
management of patients with musculoskeletal problems. The nursing process provides a
framework for selected independent and interdependent nursing intervention.
Course Number : (0901327)
Course Name: Adult Health Nursing II (Clinical)
Number of credit hours: 3
This course is designed to provide the student with the knowledge and positive
attitudes while providing care for clients and their families. It will focus on the
functional health patterns that affected by actual and high risk conditions. These
conditions may be acute or long term and the focus will be on selected concepts
relevant to functional health patterns, including: nutritional-metabolic, stress & coping
\cognitive-perceptual, patient safety , oxygenation ,pain management ,fluid
&electrolyte, activity &exercise ,sleep &rest ,skin integrity, sexuality and elimination
patterns. The nursing process will be used as a framework to formulate nursing
diagnosis and identify nursing interventions which promote, maintain and restore the
health of adults and their families. Concept-based learning will be utilized to facilitate
students’ clinical training. This strategy will help enhancing students’ clinical
reasoning essential for effective problems solving and decision making related to
different health problems.
Course Number : (0901422)
Course Name: Critical Care Nursing (Theory)
Number of credit hours: 3
This course introduces the nursing student to critical care nursing and examines
concepts foundational to this understanding, including oxygen supply and demand,
comprehensive assessment, technology, and ethical decision making. The critical care
nurse’s role in the context of patient’s and family members including experience of
selected critical illnesses is also examined. It explores increasingly complex health
problems (e.g. acute coronary syndrome, brain injury, and heart failure, hemodynamic
instability) to integrate and expand knowledge of assessment, monitoring,
interventions, caring and comfort. Emphasis is placed on ethical and legal issues,
disease prevention, palliative care, and patient/family members ‘experience with
potentially life threatening and end of life illness.
Course Number : (0901428)
Course Name: Critical Care Nursing (Clinical)
Number of credit hours: 2
This clinical course provides the student with the advanced knowledge, attitudes &
skills needed to provide comprehensive nursing care for patients with critical health
conditions. The course focuses on preparing student to assist the patient & his family
to adapt to their conditions & achieve the optimal level of care. The student uses
critical thinking, communication skills, problem solving, decision making to
prioritizing nursing diagnoses & implement therapeutic nursing interventions for
patients with critical health conditions, also the student will be able to integrate
scientific data, advanced technology & resources in the hospital setting & research
findings into the nursing process while caring for patients & their families. This
clinical course gives the student opportunities to explore critical care nursing & to
work in peer relationships with critical care staff nurses in critical care units.
Course Number : (0901485)
Course Name: Intensive Clinical Training
Number of credit hours: 5
This Clinical Training Course is based on all competencies acquired from previous
courses that serve to enable the nursing student to practice as a novice care nurse
practitioner. Students have the opportunities to apply competencies for direct clinical
practice, ethical decision-making, leadership, change agent, collaboration, coach,
advocacy and research in the context of advanced practice. Student will provide
nursing care for patients off all ages requiring acute/critical care. Nursing theoretical
approaches to complex care nursing will be applied in the clinical experience. Clinical
experiences will occur in different hospitals units with patients across the lifespan.
Core competencies emphasized in this course are caring, critical thinking, decision
making, professional commitment, leadership, professionalism, communication and
patient safety. The focus is on applying role competencies as care provider, designer,
coordinator and novice manager of care. The emphasis is on understanding the key
skills employed by highly successful nurse leaders/managers such as thinking
critically, communicating effectively, handling conflict, delegating successfully,
building teams, controlling resources, improving quality, managing stress, and leading
change. Students must pass a competency standardized examination to pass the course
and to meet the requirement for graduation.
Course Number : (0901100)
Course Name: English for Nurses (1)
Number of credit hours: 3
This course is designed to improve communication skills and specialist language
knowledge, enabling nursing students to practice more confidentially and effectively.
And to improve their practice in many health care situations represents the final stage
in the series of courses designed for nursing.
In this course, attention is focused on the ESP component of the program. English for
nurses is a composite of three components designed to provide the students with a
comprehensive program of ESP language in medical sciences. While reading
constitutes the fulcrum of the course, a supportive Medical Terminology component is
added to enhance the overall ESP skills needed for future college studies.
Course Number : (0901121)
Course Name: English for Nurses (2)
Number of credit hours: 3
This course is designed for nursing students with the purpose of enhancing and
developing a professional level of writing within the nursing context. Writing-in-the
nursing discipline should ensure that students are able to document and explain
patient's history, and findings. Effective documentation skills are essential to enhance
the quality of nursing practice.
Course Number : (0901301)
Course Name: Nutrition in health and illness
Course
Number of credit hours: 3
This course is important course in the nursing that is required for all nursing students
studying for a bachelor degree in nursing. Students learn concepts related to
nutritional needs of the individual are integrated. Legal and ethical roles of the
professional Nurse are emphasized. The course aims at providing the students with
changing throughout the life cycle and a long the wellness- illness continuum.
Nutrition is the science of food, the substances found in food and how these
substances relate to health and disease. It provides energy and promotes the growth
and maintenance of our body. Also it regulates the many body processes such as your
heart beating and food being digested and supports optimum health of our body.
This course applies information on nutritional sciences, community nutrition, and life
cycle needs for health maintenance to clinical nutrition needs in disease, and updated
terminology. All these information will be used by following the problem-solving
approach (nursing process).
Course Number : (0904331)
Course Name: Biostatistics for Nursing Students
Number of credit hours: 2
This course prepares you to understand the basics of Biostatistics in health care. This
course is intended to help you develop important analytical skills through practicing
quantitative reasoning using statistics in health. This course focuses on explaining the
basic terms used in statistics.
Specifically, you will be introduced to the fundamental concepts of statistics and
develop reasoning skills that can be applied to statistical information encountered on a
daily basis. Students should learn to draw conclusions from analyses and how to
communicate analysis results. Students will work on examples of data sets, learn
approaches to problems of statistical prediction, and learn the application of statistical
reasoning to decision making.
Students will be familiar with data description, variance and variability, significance
tests, confidence bounds, tests of differences of means, correlation of variables, linear
regression and nonparametric tests. In addition, examples from the real life will
establish evidence for students on the application of biostatistics.
Course Number : (0901401)
Course Name: Nursing Research
Number of credit hours: 3
This course examines the evolution of contemporary nursing research and its
relationship to nursing science, theory, and practice. From the perspective of the
investigative role of the professional nurse, knowledge of the research process will be
developed and applied to skillful and systematic analysis of research studies and
findings. The process of developing a research proposal derived from a practice issue
or question will be examined.
Course Number : (0901403)
Course Name: Communication Skills
Number of credit hours: 3
This course is developed to help the nursing students explore and examine therapeutic
communication and health assessment principles and techniques. It focuses on
understanding aspects of human behavior in health and illness context; building new
experience, meanings and therapeutic skills, that will help the student to develop a
goal –directed relationship that will introduce change in self and others in the
environment, to reach a high level of wellness. The course emphasizes on the role of
the nurse as communicator and as a client –educator, it includes teaching as interval
part of nurse –client interaction.