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MENTAL HEALTH NURSING PRACTICE

This course is taken concurrently with NUR 427. This practical experience takes place in the psychiatric hospital. The student nurse will obtain general psychiatric nurse practice skills and techniques in the management of clients at any stage of the lifespan with various psychiatric disorders in a variety of health care settings. 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.

Course Code: 
NUR 429
No. of Credits: 
2
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Nursing

OBSTETRIC NURSING PRACTICE

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.

Course Code: 
NUR 425
No. of Credits: 
2
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Nursing

ADVANCED COMMUNITY/PUBLIC HEALTH

This course focuses on the further development of knowledge and skills needed to promote the health of local, national and international communities. A focus will be on the control and management of communicable diseases and the relationship between the environment and the health of communities. The course introduces students to basic epidemiological principles methods and tools. Emphasis will also be placed on the application of epidemiological approaches to the prevention and control of communicable diseases. The management of some communicable diseases of public health concerns will also be highlighted.

Course Code: 
NUR 416
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Nursing

Special Education

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.

Course Code: 
EPS 212
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 200
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Science

NURSING SERVICE ADMINISTRATION

This course is designed to introduce students to the management principles, strategies and theories used in professional nursing practice. The focus is on understanding health care delivery systems at the local and national levels and the development of the skills needed within the context of health services delivery in institutional or community settings.

Course Code: 
NUR 412
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Nursing

Critical Thinking and Practical Reasoning

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.

Course Code: 
PHL 205
No. of Credits: 
2
Level: 
Level 200
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Biochemistry
Science

MENTAL HEALTH NURSING

This course is designed to equip the student with knowledge of the theoretical basis for psychiatric mental health nursing. The course emphasizes the application of the nursing process in the provision of acute and rehabilitative care for the client and family with mental health problems. Interpersonal and group communication, and legal and ethical issues are presented Interdisciplinary health care team and its function in the psychiatric setting explored.

Course Code: 
NUR 427
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Nursing

Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) through Science Teaching

This course aims at equipping student teachers with skills to activate HOTS in their students in the teaching and learning of science. It is designed to enhance the engagement strategies of student teachers in the course of teaching and learning of Science. 

Topics to be discussed will include:  meaning and concept of HOTS, principles, theories and philosophies of HOTS, engagement strategies to activate HOTS (e.g. critical thinking and inquiry thinking skills), communicative approach, and patterns of discourse through scientific tasks. 

Course Code: 
ESC 213
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 200
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Science

Contemporary Issues about Nature of Science

The course will enable students to appreciate that science is a product of human thought and practice. Students will be exposed to the views of modern and contemporary philosophers of science. Students will learn the various approaches to scientific reasoning.

The course covers meanings and aims of science as illustrated by the views of Popper, Kuhn, Feyerabend, Lakatos and the Copernican revolution.  Patterns of scientific explanations; Scientific theories; Hypothetico-deductive reasoning; Explanation and inference; Science as process and Science as product; and the Constructs of nature of science (e.g. Tentativeness, objectivity, among others) will be discussed.

Course Code: 
ESC 201
No. of Credits: 
2
Level: 
Level 200
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Science

OBSTETRIC NURSING

The emphasis of this course is management of the childbearing family during pregnancy, labour and the puerperium. Emphasis is on the nurse’s role and responsibilities in the detection of deviations from the normal states of pregnancy and complications of pregnancy, labour and the puerperium. Nursing care of the new-born experiencing uncomplicated and complicated delivery will be presented.

Course Code: 
NUR 423
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Nursing

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