Through seminar discussion and individual advisement, the student will identify a clinical nursing problem amenable to research. A research proposal will be developed and must be approved by Department lecturers.  In addition, they will write an introduction on the research topic which they will present. Marks will be awarded for both the proposal and the introduction.

This course is taken concurrently with NUR 423.  In addition to the general obstetric rotation, students will spend four (4) weeks on the obstetric unit, one (1) week on medical-surgical wards, and one (1) week in a community health nursing experience.  The students are expected to spend six (6) hours daily on the ward under the supervision of preceptors and clinicians. Ward conferences will be organised to discuss the students’ clinical experiences and procedures.  Laboratory demonstrations will be done by clinicians with return demonstration by students.

This course introduces the prospective teacher to the current issues confronting identification management and teaching of children with special needs in the regular classroom. The course covers issues of inclusive education mainstreaming. Topics to be treated include mental retardation, learning disabilities, behavioural and emotional disorders, and hearing-impairment, gifted and talented, communication disorders.

Critical thinking includes, but not limited to, variety of deliberative processes aimed at making wise decisions about what to believe and do, processes that centre on evaluation of arguments, among other. The course will integrate logic, both formal and informal, with a variety of skills and topics useful in making sound decisions about claims, actions, and practices and to make it all palatable by presenting it in real-life contexts. This course is interactive and conversational in tone and aim at helping students to appreciate how to use the tools in logic in arriving at most cogent conclusions given different issues of life.