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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.