Course Description ( ) General Chemistry ( ) Biology ( ) Microbiology ( ) Biochemistry for Nurses

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1 Course Description ( ) General Chemistry Measurements and significant figures, chemical reactions; stoichiometry; the gaseous state, thermo chemistry; electronic structure and periodicity; chemical bonding; molecular shapes; states of matter and intermolecular forces; physical properties of solutions. ( ) Biology This course provides the students with the basic information regarding, the chemical behavior of carbon which makes it exceptionally versatile as a building block in molecular architecture, structure and functions of nucleic acids, the total of chemical reactions that takes place in living organisms, cell organelles and cell membrane, certain aspects of cellular respiration, Mendel and the gene idea, the chromosomal basis of inheritance and the connection between genes and proteins. It also includes types of plant cells, tissue systems and plant growth, levels of animal structural organization, types and functions of animal tissues, the kingdoms of life, characteristics of prokaryotes and protists, some of the most important phyla of invertebrate animals, characteristics & diversity of fungi and the immune system. ( ) Microbiology Microbiology for Nursing (501316) is two credit hours course. The course provides the students of Nursing with the essential principles of microbiology; concentrating on the major microbes: bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites. After studying the microscope and its use, the characteristics of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells will be covered. After that, we will talk about the metabolic processes in the major microbes, and the ways and the control of their growth. Moreover a topic about Viruses, viroids and pirons will be covered. Afterwards, some major microbial diseases will be discussed, together with their principles of pathogenicity, prevention of disease transmission and their antimicrobial drugs ( ) Biochemistry for Nurses The purpose of this course is to make biochemistry as clear and interesting as possible and to familiarize the students of Pharmacy and Medical Technology with the major aspects of biochemistry. This course covers the vital mechanisms explained by biochemistry, the molecular nature of cellular components, and the dynamic aspects of biochemical reactions. ( ) Professional Nursing Trends & Issues This course focuses on the delineation and analysis of contemporary issues in nursing practice, nursing education and heath care. The impact of the economics, politics, law, and special interest groups related to healthcare issues is explored. Experiences are provided from participation in political and legislative activities. Various roles of the professional nurse, as well as, the professional socialization process are examined to assist the new graduate's entry

2 into the profession. Discussion of current trends in ethical and legal components related nursing and their possible application to the nursing profession are covered. ( ) Pathophysiology for Nurses The aim of this course is the understanding of disease mechanism based on physiological principles. It includes how cells, tissues organs and organ systems respond to disease. The course includes general principles of pathology such as general concepts of disease, cellular injury and cell death. Response of the body to injury ( inflammation and repair). Disturbances in growth cellular proliferation and differentiation and hematologic system disorders. ( ) Biostatistics This course will provide a basic overview of fundamental statistical and bio-medical statistical principles. A series of workshop sessions will be interwoven with lectures and discussions. This course serve to introduce general statistical concepts, and form a foundation for reading and interpreting statistical materials and terms such as p-value, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, power, sample size, and variability. At the conclusion of the course, students should be able to effectively communicate with statisticians and better understand statistical material in reports and journals ( ) Nursing Research This course focuses on acquiring nursing students with the knowledge and skills which is needed to identify the ethical dilemma of nursing research, the importance of nursing research in developing the body of knowledge for nursing science, as well as developing their skills in reading, and conducting a nursing research. ( ) Communication Skills This course is developed to help the student nurse explore and examine basic knowledge and skills of communication in health and illness. 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 teacher, it includes teaching as interval part of nurse client interaction. ( ) Fundamental of Nursing (Theory) 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.

3 ( ) Fundamental of Nursing (Lab) This course is designed for first year nursing students in order to provide them with clinical nursing experience. Basic nursing skills related to the theory and principles are demonstrated and practiced in laboratory simulator. This course complements the background and concepts of fundamental theory. The purpose of this course is to give nursing students the opportunity to master all basic nursing skills accurately and safely, also, to prepare them properly before their clinical practice at the hospitals. ( ) Health Assessment (Lab) 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. ( ) Adult Health Nursing I (Theory) 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. ( ) Adult Health Nursing I (Clinical) 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. Students are expected to develop clinical decision making, 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. ( ) Counseling & Health Education This course has been developed for providing 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 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.

4 ( ) Critical Thinking in Nursing This course is planned to promote better understanding of critical thinking and its application in practice. As a guide to knowledge development in nursing, this course provides the student with an opportunity to practice on using part of their cognitive abilities. These abilities are impeded within the mind of each student, and through the application of critical thinking in real situations from the clinical practice they are expected to be promoted and enriched. In particular, clinical reasoning and decision making are integrated within classroom experiences. This course also sets examples of nursing science and knowledge development that demands theoretical connections between believed facts and practical observation. The overall approach of learning adopted in this course is evidence-based and enjoys a flexible pattern of learning and assumes the view of student as an independent learner. ( ) Adult Health Nursing II (Theory) 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. ( ) Adult Health Nursing II (Clinical) 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 biopsycho-social responses of adults to actual and high risk conditions, which affect their functional health patterns. These conditions may be acute or long term and the focus will be on selected functional health patterns, including: nutritional-metabolic, cognitive-perceptual 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. ( ) Child Health Nursing (Theory) This course introduces the students to appropriate scientific knowledge which enables them to develop their clinical and educational approaches to care of children and their families. The course starts with concepts of health promotion and maintenance, and the prevention of illness and accidents. Selected physiological health problems including alteration in respiratory, metabolic, renal, neurological, endocrinology, cardiac and other health problems common to all children are introduced. The content also addresses the psychological health problems that face children including inorganic failure to thrive, child neglect and child abuse. Nursing management relevant to each problem is discussed using the nursing process, developmental theories, new trends and the recent approaches in the management and caring of children.

5 ( ) Child Health Nursing (Clinical) This course complements theories from child health nursing and integrates knowledge acquired from nutrition and pharmacology in meeting a competent level of care to children and their families. Students will apply concepts related to growth and development, research, leadership and nursing process in planning comprehensive plan of care for children and their families. This course will introduce students to different clinical setting such as MCH, hospital and rehabilitation centers which enable student to achieve a holistic approach to nursing care through primary prevention, health promotion, health maintenance and rehabilitation. Student will effectively engage in identification of ethical and legal problems which help in decision making and problem solving. ( ) Maternal Health Nursing (Theory) This theoretical course will acquire students with adequate knowledge about reproductive - sexual health, parenting and a comprehensive consideration for most gynecological cases at all woman stages of life, based on biophysical science and psycho cultural values to achieve optimum health benefits. The focus of this course is to provide students with nursing knowledge that is needed to provide nursing care and applying nursing process for both normal and high risk clients in the antenatal, intrapartal and postnatal periods in addition to newborn nursing care. Ethical and legal issues that interfere with maternal and newborn nursing care, critical thinking and problem solving for normal and high risk maternal and newborns will be addressed in this course ( ) Maternal Health Nursing (Clinical) This course is designed to provide the opportunity of synthesizing and applying specialized psychomotor skills, attitudes and knowledge that needed for providing a comprehensive reproductive nursing care and achieving safe mother hood in different stages of women life. The low and high risk reproductive cases, gynecological conditions and newborns assessment will be discussed and learned to be managed based on the ethical standers of nursing care, and cultural value system. At this course Students will be trained on how to utilize critical thinking, reflection and problem solving techniques while dealing with maternal and newborns nursing health issues. ( ) Growth & Development This course provides students with the basic knowledge about human growth and development, which enable them to understand and assess the normal process of human growth and development throughout the life span, as well as normal problems and needs during different stages of human life.

6 ( ) Mental Health Nursing (Theory) In this course, the student is introduced to basic concepts of psychiatric mental health. The course provides the student with the knowledge base to apply selected theories, concepts and research in the nursing management of mental disorders in service users throughout the life span and in a variety of settings. Continuing themes of growth and development across the life span, therapeutic communications, socio cultural dimensions, pharmacology, teaching, service user advocacy, and ethical standards are explored. Traditional psychotherapeutic and integrative health therapies are addressed. ( ) Mental Health Nursing (Clinical) The course is designed to provide nursing students with scientific and interpersonal skills needed to intervene effectively among service users with mental and/or psychiatric disorders and their families in the field of psychiatric nursing. Furthermore, this course will help the student to appreciate the service users as holistic individuals and develop skill to function as psychiatric nurses in future. ( ) Critical Care Nursing This course prepares the student to take responsibility of patients with a range of acute and life threatening conditions. Its approach is based on problem-based and the promotion of evidence-based principles in nursing education. While the student practices advanced nursing roles (i.e. patient advocacy and counseling), s/he uses knowledge, skills and critical thinking to perform assessment, planning, and intervention of the most logically sound alternative solutions to care according to patient condition. It introduces the nursing student to critical care nursing and examines concepts foundational to this understanding. It explores increasingly complex health problems (e.g. acute coronary syndrome, brain injury, cardiac failure, hemodynamic instability) and integrates knowledge of basic nursing care to critically-ill patients. Further, emphasis is placed on crucial principles in nursing care, including ethical and legal issues, disease prevention, palliative care, and patient/family members experience with potentially life threatening illnesses ( ) Community Health Nursing (Theory) This course is designed to help the fourth year students studying for a bachelor degree in nursing. The subject matter of this course will cover different community health nursing concepts; related to levels of prevention, primary health care, and health promotion. Emphasis is placed on community health nursing in wellness and illness in various community settings. Health promotion and disease prevention strategies are used in primary health care. This course familiarizes them with best practices in community health nursing by building on knowledge, values, attitude and skills acquired in the prerequisite courses Legal and ethical roles of the professional nurse on the three levels of prevention for the well, sick and disabled individuals are emphasis. These aspects of care are provided through the use of public health sciences and tools, utilization of community health nursing concepts, problem solving and critical thinking approach, which acts as frame work for nursing process that to be provided in any setting. It aims at developing, modifying and promoting students' knowledge, and attitude and health behavior.

7 ( ) Community Health Nursing (Clinical) This course intends to equip students with skills necessary to promote health of aggregates. The three levels of prevention are explored with special emphasis on primary level of prevention. This course will provide students with opportunities to provide health education programs during home visits and at primary health care centers. This course will focus on the application of nursing process to meet needs of aggregates especially in rural areas in Jordan. ( ) Nursing Administration (Theory) This course is designed to introduce the students to the concepts and principles of management and leadership. Emphasis will be on management process, quality improvement, introducing change, and building and empowering the team. Critical thinking will be utilized throughout the course to promote effective decision making, problem solving, and producing necessary changes. This course will aim at promoting students growth as future nurse leader able to influence quality and produce changes ( ) Nursing Administration (Clinical) This course is designed to assist nursing students in developing managerial and leadership skills before their graduation. This course will help the nursing students to gain managerial skills for better quality of nursing care, better patients outcomes and nurses satisfaction. It is also provides opportunities to explore many skills and strategic management interventions related to leadership and management in nursing and health care systems. Critical thinking and problem solving approaches will be developed through this course and will be reflected through projects and activities at the clinical settings. ( ) Primary Health Care This course provides a knowledge base understanding of the Primary Health Care (PHC) concepts, principles as well as present and future challenges in the implementation of primary health care programs. The focus is on developing a broad overview of PHC to enable students to explore a number of PHC programs including reproductive health and, safe motherhood, child's health and immunization, and other PHC programs. (901102) Emergency & Disaster Nursing This course prepares the student to understand the nature of disaster in order to develop appropriate response, resource collection & recovery strategies. Review of real world disaster provides the student with valuable knowledge & skills that develop habits of anticipation & response. The examination of real events & case studies will address current & future trends directed to improve effectiveness of disaster response. Students will learn principles for emergency planning & operations management, as well as individual skills to improve judgment, decision making & leadership which are vital skills during disaster or crisis.

8 ( ) Clinical Training This course aims at promoting students' role as independent practitioner through weaning process; where clinical training opportunity is provided with indirect supervision, it aims at reinforcing and mastering skills, attitudes, and knowledge acquired throughout their learning experience and required to carry out their future role as a staff nurse in providing total patient care and utilizing critical thinking. The student will practice under the supervision of preceptors in different clinical areas they choose and the indirect supervision of faculty member. ( ) Palliative Care This course will focus on Evidence-based strategies for palliative management of pain and common symptoms in life-limiting and chronic illness across the lifespan. This course will focus on palliative care area, increase knowledge of palliative care models, and enhance understanding of priorities of care, and the role of the nurse as a member of an interdisciplinary team in providing high quality of nursing care. Basic principles of palliative care will presented within a quality of life framework. ( ) Gerontological Nursing This course will provide information on the care of the elderly. The theories and concepts of aging, the physiologic and psychosocial changes and problems associated with the process, and the appropriate nursing interventions are discussed. Ethical and legal aspects of caring for the elderly are also addressed. ( ) Topics in Nursing This course provides nursing students with essential academic skills for searching updated and advanced information. Guided survey and discussion of current literature on major topics in nursing. Seminar/lecture with analysis and discussion of selected topics and readings. May have clinical component. Implications for nursing practice and health care emphasized. ( ) Neonatal Nursing This course introduces students to the main topics of nursing care of newborn babies both healthy and sick. Topics will cover normal newborn babies, at risk newborns and babies with an alteration in fetal growth and development, cardiovascular, neurological, gastrointestinal and urological systems. Contents also include newborns with specific complication such as sepsis, asphyxia, nutritional problems, immune disorders, babies of diabetic mothers and newborn of mother under the effect of drugs misuse or abuse.

9 ( ) Parmacology This course is designed to provide students with a clear, concise introduction to pharmacology. The basic explanations Drug therapy is one of the most important and complicated treatment modalities in modern health care. Providing information that accurately reflects current practices in drug therapy. Facilitating the acquisition, comprehension, and application of knowledge related to drug therapy. Identifying knowledge and skills the nurse can use to smooth the interface between a drug and the patient receiving it. This course describes the general, drug preparations, drug therapeutic effect, drug adverse effect, drug administration. ( ) Anatomy This course focuses acquiring nursing students with the knowledge and skills which is needed to identify the human body structures from tissues to systems. ( ) Physiology This course is design to provide students with essential knowledge about the vital function performed by the human body organs, in order to understand the integrity of body as whole, that explain the normal physiological function which consider as a standard as data base for any functional deviation. ( ) Nutrition in Health and Illness 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).