This course is taken concurrently with NUR 416. This practical experience will allow the student to apply the advanced concepts of community/public health nursing. Students will complete an in-depth community assessment and design an appropriate health care management plan addressing identified needs.
This course gives the student the opportunity to offer continuous and comprehensive nursing care to a patient and the family and to compile the care into a written document.
The student is introduced to the use of the scientific process in the identification, study and solution of nursing problems. Issues related to a study’s conceptualization, including the formulation of research questions and hypotheses and the development of theoretical contexts will be presented. The design of qualitative and quantitative nursing research studies will be explored. Sampling techniques, data analysis and communicating research will be discussed.
This course is taken during the long vacation and is designed to help student nurses plan, organise, implement and evaluate advance nursing care using the nursing process.
It is to enable students demonstrate technical skills in the management of patients with specific medical-surgical conditions and prepare patients for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
This course is taken concurrently with NUR 324. This course emphasizes the application of the nursing process to provide nursing care for paediatric clients with an acute illness and surgery. The focus will be on health promotion and health maintenance strategies to meet the physical, developmental, and psychosocial needs of children and adolescents. Demonstrations with return demonstration of selected nursing skills will be included in the course. Ward conferences will be organized to discuss the students’ clinical experiences and procedures.
This course builds on prior coursework and emphasizes the application of the nursing process to address acute illness and surgical care of paediatric clients. The focus will be on health promotion and health maintenance strategies to meet the physical, developmental, and psychosocial needs of children and adolescents.
This course is taken concurrently with NUR 307. The course is designed to allow the students to apply the nursing process in the care of clients with an acute illness or undergoing a surgical procedure involving the gastrointestinal, urinary or male and female reproductive systems. Students will spend six (6) hours per week on an assigned clinical unit under the supervision of nurse technicians and clinicians. Demonstrations with return demonstration of selected nursing skills will be included in the course. Ward conferences will be organized to discuss the students’ clinical experiences and procedures.
This course will expose students to the application of computers and software in biological sciences. The course will introduce students to computer hardware and software. Students will be exposed to input and output devices, Windows operating system and others. They will learn how to manage files in Windows and MS office package (Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc). Students will be exposed to word processing, presentations in PowerPoint and use of Excel for basic analyses and graphical presentations. Students will also be introduced to the use of the Internet and search engines for information retrieval on the web. Statistical packages (SPSS, MINITAB, GENSTAT etc) for data analyses will be introduced to students. Graphic packages, such as SIGMA STAT/PLOT, will also be introduced. Uses of PCs in health and medicine, modelling DNA sequencing and analysis; use of laboratory equipment interfaced with computers for data collection.
This course introduces statistics as a method of collecting, collating, summarizing and analyzing data on health phenomena. It deals with elements of descriptive statistics, probability estimation and statistical inference. The primary goal of the course is to develop an understanding and appreciation for the concepts and methods of modern statistics in students in the health sciences.
This course emphasizes the application of the nursing process to address acute illness and surgical care of clients with alterations in the gastrointestinal, urinary, male and female reproductive systems. The focus will be on health promotion and health maintenance strategies to meet the physical, developmental, and psychosocial needs of clients and families.
