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Educational Psychology

This is a comprehensive course designed to introduce prospective teachers to the psychological influences responsible for the behaviour and learning characteristics of individual students. It includes knowledge of the forces of nature and nurture as they affect the physical, psycho-social, cognitive and moral characteristics of the learner in the school. It also includes knowledge on how the teacher can identify special needs in the individual as well as the principles and strategies to employ in helping and counselling learners to develop their potentials in full.

Course Code: 
EPS 101A
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 100
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Basic Education
Guidance and Counselling
Science

NURSING PRACTICE IV

This course is taken concurrently with NUR 419. 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 endocrine, neurological or musculoskeletal systems. Students will complete a one-month rotation in the theatre. 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. A comprehensive Client-Family Care Study will be an integral part of the course.

Course Code: 
NUR 421
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Nursing

COMMUNITY/PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE

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.

Course Code: 
NUR 418
No. of Credits: 
2
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Nursing

PATIENT/FAMILY CARE STUDY

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.

Course Code: 
NUR 411
No. of Credits: 
2
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Nursing

NURSING RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

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.

Course Code: 
NUR 399
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 300
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Nursing

Clinical Nursing Practice III

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.

Course Code: 
NUR 331
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 300
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Nursing

PAEDIATRIC NURSING PRACTICE

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.

Course Code: 
NUR 326
No. of Credits: 
2
Level: 
Level 300
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Nursing

PAEDIATRIC NURSING

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. 

Course Code: 
NUR 324
No. of Credits: 
2
Level: 
Level 300
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Nursing

NURSING PRACTICE III

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.

Course Code: 
NUR 322
No. of Credits: 
2
Level: 
Level 300
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Nursing

BASIC COMPUTING FOR BIOLOGISTS

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.

Course Code: 
NUR 315
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 300
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Nursing

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