Course Description
B.Sc. in Nursing
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0702111
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Health Assessment
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(3 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: ( 0501105)
This course aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to
assess the individuals' health throughout the stages of life. In addition,
the course aims to develop the ability of students to practice health
assessment based on the functional health patterns in nursing, which affects
the individual's health status. It enables the student to differentiate any
deviations from normal status. The students will be trained in the faculty of
nursing laboratories.
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0702101
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Introduction to Nursing Profession
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(2 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (None)
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This course
introduces the nursing the begining student's to the history nursing, its
nature and roles. The course has been prepared to provide the student with
basic information and appropriate positive attitudes that will be acquired
while studying and working in nursing profession. This information includes
health and freedom from illness, nursing process, and health care delivery. In addition, it prepares the nursing
students to use critical thinking and decision-making process, which guide to
safe and competent nursing practice.
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0702202
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Foundations of Professional Nursing
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(3 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (0702101)
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This course is designed to provide the beginning student with the basic
knowledge and positive attitudes related to the individual's physiological,
psychological, and social needs according to the functional health patterns. Students will be able to assess, plan,
implement, and evaluate nursing strategies in order to meet client's needs
using nursing process as a framework.
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0702203
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Foundations of Professional Nursing (Clinical)
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(2 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (0702202) or co-requisite.
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This clinical course is designed to
provide the student with laboratory guided experiences with emphasis on the
student's independent learning that will assist her/him to master the basic
nursing skills. These skills are presented according to the functional health
patterns in parallel with knowledge provided to the students in the theory
course in order to prepare the students to implement holistic care modalities
in the clinical settings.
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0702204
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Introduction to Adult Health Nursing
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(3 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (0702202) (2
theory+1 clinical)
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This course introduces the student to
concepts and procedures that are fundamental in caring of adult clients
aiming at providing holistic nursing care through integrating concepts of
nursing, physical, social and psychological sciences. The course is developed
and applied within a framework of the nursing process to formulate nursing
diagnoses and identify nursing interventions directed towards promoting,
maintaining and restoring the health of adults and their families. Also, this
course focuses on the bio-psycho-social responses of adult clients to actual
and high risk conditions that affect their functional health patterns.
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0702205
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Pathophysiology
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(3 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (0501105)
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This course focuses on the physiological
changes that occur due to internal and external environmental stressors,
pathological processes and the responses that produce signs and symptoms.
Underlying concepts and principles common to major health problems will be
presented. The concepts explored will assist the student in clinical decision
making and actions related to individual health needs.
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0702206
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Adult Health Nursing I
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(3 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (0702204)
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This course is sequel to the Introduction
to Adult Health Nursing course. It introduces students to the conditions that
affect the functional health patterns of an adult patient. It focuses on the
bio-psycho-social responses of adults to actual and high risk conditions that
affect their functional health patterns. The nursing process will be used as
a framework to formulate nursing diagnoses and identify nursing interventions
directed towards promoting, maintaining and restoring the health of adults
and their families.
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0702207
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Adult Health Nursing I (Clinical)
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(3 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (0702203) & co-requisite with 0702206.
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This course is designed to provide a
guided nursing experience, knowledge and skills essential in preparation of
professional nurses who are accountable to provide nursing care of adult
patients with medical and surgical health conditions. It focuses on the
bio-psycho-social responses of adults to actual and high risk conditions that
affect their functional health patterns. This course provides the student with the practical experience
to deliver nursing care for adult patients with alterations in functional
health patterns. The nursing process will be utilized as a framework for care
for the individuals and their families. The course aims at developing the
decision-making and problem solving skills, and linking the theory with the
clinical.
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0702308
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Adult Health Nursing II
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(3 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (0702206)
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This course, a sequel to Adult Health
Nursing I course. It introduces students to conditions that affect the
functional health patterns of adult patients. Emphasis will be placed on the
impact of these conditions on an individual's functioning. Students are expected
to have skills and knowledge in the process of decision making when providing
care for adult clients experiencing critical conditions. The nursing process
provides a framework for selected independent, interdependent and dependent
nursing interventions including health promotion and lifestyle changes.
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0702309
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Adult Health Nursing II (Clinical)
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(3 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (0702207) & co-requisite with 0702308.
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This course is
designed to provide the student with the knowledge and skills while providing
care for critically ill patients. It will focus on the bio-psycho-social
responses of adults with acute illness and enable the students to care for
adult patients in special units. Students will have advanced knowledge and
skills in treatment modalities, and advanced nursing roles when providing
care to critically ill patients. 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.
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0702311
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Emergency and Disaster Nursing
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(3 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (0702309)
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(2 theory +1 clinical)
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The purpose of this course is to prepare
nursing student to care for people affected by disasters or under emergency
situations. This course will provide students with: definition of disaster
nursing; recognition of the community resources, utilizing disaster planning
models; and recognizing the role that nurses could play in disaster
situations. In addition, The course will include basics of emergency, first
aid and emergency nursing care for specific medical emergencies. Critical
thinking and problem solving is emphasized.
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0702412
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Management and Leadership in Nursing
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(3 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (0702308)
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This course is designed to introduce the
student to management and leadership concepts and principles necessary to
promote student's ability to manage care and make appropriate decisions
related to clients. These concepts and principles are also necessary to
facilitate student's growth as future nurse leader able to affect quality of
care and introduce change when necessary. Management process is used as a
framework in designing the content of the course.
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0702413
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Management and Leadership in Nursing (Clinical)
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(2 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (0702309) & co-requisite with 0702412.
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This course is complementary to the
management and leadership in nursing theory course. It gives student the
opportunity to integrate various management and leadership concepts and
principles into practical experiences organized in different settings.
Student is required to submit individual and group projects that reflects
mastering levels of different management and leadership concepts and skills.
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0702414
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Clinical Nursing Training
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(4 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (0702413) & co-requisite with 0702413.
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This course aims at providing clinical
opportunity for the fourth year nursing student in the last year of study to
reinforce and integrate clinical skills, attitudes and knowledge acquired
during the course of study. The student will practice under the supervision
of a preceptor in different clinical areas with the guidance and indirect
supervision of a faculty member. In the
final semester of the fourth year, the students will work on daily full shift
practice in one of the health care institutions.
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0702415
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Nursing Informatics
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(3 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (1942102)
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The purpose of this course is to provide
nursing students with understanding of the technical, user, and environmental
factors that need to be considered in building computerized clinical nursing
information systems to provide quality information that supports nursing care
and resource decisions. This course will focus on methods of identifying
necessary changes to improve cost, quality, and access to care through
automated system.
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0701202
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Communication Concepts in Nursing
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(3 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (None)
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(2 theory +1 clinical)
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This theory and clinical course provides a
variety of methods to interact more effectively with clients, families, and
professional colleagues. The course focuses on communication strategies and
principles that enable nursing students to interact with clients in different
clinical settings. The psychosocial aspect of illness and health will also be
addressed. The student will also learn principles of critical thinking and
professionalism in nursing, and will be introduced to the career of nursing
and its major concepts.
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0701303
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Mental Health Nursing
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(3 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (0701202)
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This course is
designed for the beginner student in mental health psychiatric nursing. The
course is based on a belief in the value of humanistic and holistic approach
to nursing care. The nursing process is used as an organizing framework. It
provides student with concepts, theories and principles that will illuminate
his/her clinical experience. Each concept represents a major coping pattern
along the mental health-mental illness continuum is addressed through its
relation to the anxiety continuum, theoretical bases, its manifestation with
the five dimensions of the person, related nursing diagnosis, psychiatric
diagnosis, and nursing care plans.
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0701304
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Mental Health Nursing (Clinical)
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(2 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (0701303) & co-requisite with 0701303.
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This course is designed to help the student nurse to explore and gain insight into the problems experienced by the mentally ill person; and the emotional, intellectual social, and spiritual strains that physical illness causes. The student is expected to: integrate knowledge base from the mental health nursing course; utilize the nursing process within the therapeutic nurse client relationship with the emphasis on the humanistic holistic approach; and develop an open communication with health care providers team to facilitate the client's healing process in a structured environment |
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0701305
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Health Education and Promotion
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(3 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (None)
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This course is designed to introduce
students to the health education and primary health care concepts, and the
techniques of health teaching skills for the purpose of health promotion to
clients, families and community. The
course is planned to facilitate integration and application of the scientific
knowledge regarding health promotion theory and practice. Health education
process Emphasizes on preventive aspect of health as well as client education
in health and illness. Students will
have the opportunity to apply course material to design and implement client
education programs to clients with common health and environmental problems
in the community. Students are expected to utilize the latest scientific
research in relation to health education.
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0703201
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Foundations of Growth and Development
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(3 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (None)
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This course is designed to introduce the
nursing student to the main concepts and principles that are related to the
growth and development of children, adolescents, adults and elderly people.
It focuses on the physical, psychosocial, and cognitive changes during these
age periods. This course will enable the nursing student to develop a
comprehensive and holistic nursing care for individuals in each age group and
to their families. The framework of the course will be based on the concept
of health maintenance and promotion.
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0703102
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Professional Writing
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(2 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (None)
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This course is designed to introduce
students to the basic English concepts in health professions and to enable
students to practice professional writing. Students will recognize the
multiple purposes of documentation and state documentation fundamentals. The
professional writing course will help students learn effective strategies for
communicating such as hand writing and computer-mediated writing
technologies.
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0703303
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Children and Adolescents Health Nursing
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(3 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (0702206)
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This course focuses on teaching students
the proper nursing care of the healthy and ill child in all stages of his or
her life as a unique individual with special needs and characteristics within
the family and the community context. The focus is on primary health care for
children in different age groups. This care includes the prevention of health
problems, as well as the treatment and the rehabilitation in case of illness.
In addition, the course focuses on the application of the nursing process in
the care of children and adolescents as well as providing care for children
with various health problems.
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0703304
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Children and Adolescents Health Nursing (Clinical)
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(3 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (0702207) & co-requisite with 0703303
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This course contains the skills necessary
for nursing care of healthy as well as
ill children and adolescents. The students will be able to perform health
assessment to the newborn child, as well as to the children and adolescents
at different stages of their lives. Then, the students will compose a
comprehensive plan to meet the clients physical and psychological needs, and
implement the plan of care in accordance with the nursing process.
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0703305
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Maternal Health Nursing
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(3 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (0702206)
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This course aims at providing physical, psychological, emotional, social
and economic care for women and their
families. The focus is on providing health care through the application of
the nursing process steps. Emphasis will be placed on maintaining women's
health during the reproductive years , which includes: pregnancy, childbirth
and the postpartum periods, It also
includes fetal growth and development,
the immediate care of the newborn and family planning and
gynecological problems.
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0703306
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Maternal Health Nursing (Clinical)
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(3 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (0702207) & co-requisite with 0703305
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The course focuses on the application of
the principles of primary health nursing care, which include maintaining the
health of women and prevention of the disease through the application of the
nursing process steps. The student's education and training in this course
will accentuate the application of skills related to nursing care of women
during pregnancy, childbirth and after childbirth, as well as learning the
skills related to family planning methods and caring for women with various
diseases.
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0703407
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Global Perspectives in Nursing Care
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(3
Credit Hour)
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Prerequisite: (None)
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This course is designed
to introduce nursing students to the professional challenges from a global
perspective. The course teaches and trains students to provide nursing care for individuals
from diverse cultures. It is prepared to equip students with a solid
intellectual foundation enabling them to be part of the creative globalized
environment. Through careful reading and research about the major global
issues, students will learn about the importance and the sensitive nature of
these challenges and the need to cope with these issues.
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0703408
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Selected Topics in nursing
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(3
Credit Hour)
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Prerequisite: (None)
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This course is designed to introduce
baccalaureate students to relevant and emergent topics which affect the
practice of nursing in the national and international healthcare system. The
focus will be on issues confronting professional nurses including global
health, cultural awareness, gender identity, and evidence-based wellness.
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0703309
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Reproductive Health
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(3 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (0703305) or co-requisite.
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(2 theory + 1clinical)
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This course introduces the
students to the basic concepts of reproductive health. It emphasizes safe
motherhood and fatherhood, women's, men's and
adolescent reproductive health across the different stages of their physical,
psychological and social life. Topics
such as benign and malignant tumors of the reproductive system and sexually
transmitted diseases will be addressed.
Emphasis is placed on early detection, prevention and the provision
of nursing care. The clinical part of
the course provides the students with the opportunity to apply various learnt
concepts through well-organized training activities in a variety of clinical
and community settings.
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0703210
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Scientific Research Methods
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(3 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (0831190)
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The purpose of this course is to
introduce the undergraduate nursing student to the research process as
presented in professional nursing literature. It aims at introducing the
basic concepts of research, its nature, purposes, methods, literature review
and data collection, analysis & utilization. Emphasis will be on the
applicability and implementation of the research process to nursing and
health related problems. The course provide
the students with the opportunity to prepare for research projects.
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0701406
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Trends, Issues and Ethical consideration in Nursing
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(2 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (None)
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This course
introduces the student to the history, current issues and problems
influencing nursing practice and education and possible approaches in dealing
with them. Discussion of recent trends in nursing services and nursing
education and their possible application to the nursing profession will be
covered. The course focuses on ethical issues in nursing profession and their
significance while providing nursing care.
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0701407
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Health and Safety in Work Setting
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(3 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (None)
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This course introduces the student to the
concepts and issues related to the maintenance of health through the
prevention of occupational hazards for nurses, clients and community. It
includes safety measures in relation to the nurse’s and client’s immediate
environment. It focuses on the prevention and management of accidents,
planning safety precaution measured and teaching prevention strategies.
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0701308
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Holistic Mental Health Concepts
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(3 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (0701304)
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(2 theory + 1clinical)
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This course
presents holistic concepts and principles of mental health nursing for
individuals, families and communities. The focus will be on promoting
wellness and preventing of illness
among vulnerable populations taking into
consideration the cultural and environmental factors affecting peoples'
wellbeing. Group interaction within the class setting is directed toward
development of self-awareness as well as development of the professional role
in comprehensive primary care centers.
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0701309
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Nursing Care for Special Cases
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(3 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (0701304)
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(2 theory +1 clinical)
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This course is a three sections course
designed to provide the student with opportunities to explore and apply
advanced nursing roles in the health care of clients with special needs. The
course integrates student's knowledge of assessment, pathophysiology, and
pharmacological, with nursing interventions. The first section introduces the
BSc. students to the principles of palliative nursing care for clients facing
problems associated with serious life threatening illness and their families.
The emphasis of this section is on the nurses' role of meeting the physical,
psychosocial, cultural and spiritual needs of the clients and their families.
The second section involves exploration of clinical presentations, including
symptoms and human responses, underlying common health problems in the geriatric
population. The third section of this course introduces the students to the
principles of nursing care of clients with special needs. The student will
learn how provide high quality nursing care through the application of the
standards of care within the comprehensive aspects multidisciplinary team.
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0701410
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Community Health Nursing
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(3 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (0702308)
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This course is designed to provide the
student with the essential knowledge and skills related to the latest
concepts in family and community health, and how to work as a community
health nurse. The students will understand the principles of environmental
health, and ways to provide nursing care and health education in different
settings, including health care centers, homes, schools, factories and
associations dealing with clients with special needs and with the elderly.
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0701411
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Community Health Nursing (Clinical)
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(3 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (0701410) or CO.
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This course is designed to help the
student to gain good broad perspective of community health nursing. Emphasis
will be on the family in the community. Knowledge and skills learned
previously are used to guide the concepts of the individuals within the
family and the family within the community either in illness or in wellness.
Concepts of the nursing process within the family and self care framework are
applied. Analysis of roles and interactions of the community health nurse
with the individual family and community is to be worked upon (such as
nursing roles in school health, occupational health, and roles for clients
with special needs, in addition to providing nursing care to the elderly.
Related topics to the family and community health will be discussed.
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Course
description for allied health courses
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0831190
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Statistic in Education
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(3 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (None)
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This course introduces the student to the
nature of statistics, and to the various methods that can be used to describe
statistical data. It includes tabulation of data, measures of central
tendency, measures of dispersion, measures of relationships, and an
introduction to the field of statistical analysis including the normal curve
and its applications, hypotheses testing (one sample case, two sample cases),
and one-way ANOVA.
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0303101
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General Chemistry- 1
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(3 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (None)
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Measurements and significant figures,
chemical reactions; stoichiometry; the gaseous state, thermochemistry;
electronic structure and periodicity; chemical bonding; molecular shapes;
states of matter and intermolecular forces; physical properties of solutions.
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0304101
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General Biology 1
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(3 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (None)
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Internal structure of the cell; molecules
of the cell; cellular respiration photosynthesis; molecular biology of the gene;
genetic code; DNA replication, protein synthesis; the control of gene
expression in prokaryotes and eukaryotes; DNA technology; endocrine; glands
and chemical regulation; the immune system.
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0501104
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Biochemistry for Nursing
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(3 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: ( 0301301 )
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Relationship of organic biochemistry
& biochemistry, structure & function of biomolecules, general
properties of enzymes, regulation & their applications in nursing. Energy
production in living systems & the metabolic pathways involved. Storage
of energy & biosynthetic reactions. Nucleic acid & protein
biosynthesis. Biotechnology &, molecular biology as related to pathology.
Biochemical of hormones action & nutrition.
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0503202
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Pharmacology
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(3 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (0501104 , 0501105)
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This course is briefly describing the
general principles of pharmacology. Implications of drugs, drugs
preparations, drugs therapeutic effects, drug adverse effects, drug
administration. Then the course will cover the categories of drugs acting on
autonomic nervous system; drugs acting on central nervous system; diuretics;
antimicrobials; antiprotozoal agent; antihelmenties; anti cancer; drugs
acting on the endocrine system; drugs used in gastrointestinal system; drugs
in respiratory system and autacoids.
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0501105
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Physiology
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(3 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: ( 0502105) or Co.
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The course provides basic understanding
and general knowledge of physiology. It includes a description of body
fluids, blood, nerves and muscles. It illustrates how body maintains itself
through the mechanisms of circulation, respiration, digestion, and urine
production. It also covers the physiology of the endocrine system and the
reproductive system. Finally, the central nervous system (sensory and motor)
and the peripheral nervous system (symatheric and parasympathetic) are also
discussed. Clinical applications are mentioned when appropriate.
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0502105
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Anatomy
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(3 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (None)
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The objective of this course is to
identify the normal structure and working knowledge of human body. This
includes to study the structure of the cell, the basic human tissues and all
systems of human body.
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0504201
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Microbiology
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(3 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (0304101)
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A lecture course which deals with general
aspects of medical microorganisms including Viruses, Bacteria, Fungi and
Parasites and their relation to human and nature. Host parasite relationship
and the cellular and humoral immune responses are considered in relation to
infectious disease. The course provides knowledge on the most important types
of human pathogens, clinical signs and symptoms, laboratory diagnosis and
prevention and control. Hospital acquired infections, control, prevention and
use of disinfections and sterilization methods are included.
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0603232
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Applied Nutrition for Nursing
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(3 Credit Hours)
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Prerequisite: (0702205) or Co.
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Fundamentals related to nutrients &
energy with respect to digestion, absorption, metabolism, functions, dietary
sources, diseases of malnutrition and requirements throughout the life cycle;
assessment of nutritional status, formulation and planning diets, nutrition,
counseling, and use of therapeutic diets in the management of common diseases
of different body systems & selected chronic diseases of affluence.
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