| | Credit Hours : 3 credit hours
Prerequisites : Introduction to Adult Health Nursing (0702204)Course description
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. | Second Year |
| | Course Number: 0702308
Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: 0702206
Course Description :
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. | Third Year |
| | This course provides the students with the basic knowledge and skills in the first aid of adult individuals in non-hospital settings. This course helps the students to care for victims with injury or sudden illness before professional emergency treatment is available. The main aims of the course are to prepare the students to assist in the assessment and intervention of caring of victims in the accident scene and to prevent possible complications | Second Year |
| | 2 credit hours
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. | First Year |
| | This course provides an examination of the principles and the philosophy of palliative and end of life care, as specifically applied in all care settings. It aims to equip nurses with the basic knowledge and skills to provide holistic and ongoing assessment for patients requiring palliative care, with regard to their physical, psychological, social, spiritual, and cultural wellbeing. It will also explore and analyze the needs of the family and the role of the nurse and the multi-professional team in meeting these needs. The student will spend six hours weekly in clinical training under the guidance of the faculty members in clinical lab or different medical and surgical departments according to the student specialty area. The student skills will be developed through evaluation of recommended best practice as presented in evidence-based research. | Master in Palliative Nursing |
| | This course provides an in depth study of pain and symptom management, including advanced care planning with clients and their families. This course takes a comprehensive look at the management of pain and suffering as understood from the patient's lived experience and applied to nursing practice. Both pharmacological and non-pharmacological pain management strategies are examined and the ethical clinical decision-making in pain management is emphasized according to established standards for quality care and best practices within an interdisciplinary team. | Master in Palliative care |
| | This course enables the students to learn about current practices, clinical advancements, and research updates in palliative care nursing. This course takes a holistic approach at the management of symptoms as understood from the patients' perspective and applied to nursing practice. It focuses on managing common symptoms in palliative care and issues associated with patients’ and their families’ needs such as psychological distress and spiritual concerns. The ultimate aim is to improve the patients' quality of life by preparing nurses to apply the recommened care plan based upon the best available evidence. The student will spend eight hours weekly in clinical training under the guidance of the faculty members and instructors in palliative care department and medical and surgical wards where the cancer patients are in need for palliative care services | Master-palliative care |
| | This course is aimed at developing and strengthening the writing skills of PhD students. Writing assignments may include a dissertation proposal, grants, or an area where the PhD student has developed a research interest or has a chosen field of research. The student will either create or revise a written document that may be submitted for publication, presentation, or a grant. | 2022-2023 |
