Courses Brief Description Level-8

Intensive Clinical Training

5Clinical setting

NRS 472

This course is a clinical practicum, which provides each student an opportunity to practices as a beginner nurse under the supervision of a faculty member and continuing education unit in the hospital. In this course, student will spend 10 actual hours per week in clinical area. Areas include: surgical and medical wards, emergency department, ICUs, and operation department. Student is expected to provide best comprehensive nursing care for patients under direct supervision.  This care will be guided by critical thinking and decision making approach. A list of skills that the student must master is clarified in this course. Since one can expect what is available for each practice date, there will be no scheduling for the skills.

Nursing Management and Leadership/ Theory

NRS 471

This course provides an overview of the concepts and principles of leadership and management emphasizes the role of the nurses as a change agent in shaping health care for the future. The concepts and theories of organization, management and leadership, change decision making are explored. Socio –cultural, political, economic, and historical factors that influence healthcare system are all also emphasized .It seeks to promote students growth as future nurse leaders able to affect quality of patient care, direct and evaluate nursing staff, and introduce change where necessary to ensure better quality care.

Nursing Management and Leadership/ Clinical

2Clinical setting

This clinical course is a co-requisite to the theoretical part of nursing management and leadership. The course focuses on the application of theoretical concepts in the practice settings where students are expected to gain managerial and leadership experience. Emphasis is placed on resource management, conflict resolution, managed care, quality improvement, and evaluation practices through collaborative efforts between hospital staff and college mentors.

Independent Study in Specialty Nursing

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The Independent study in specialty nursing (NRS 484) is a selective course. It involves only independent theory course work (i.e., no clinical component). In this course, students are required to prepare a proposal and present a certain topic in nursing care (project). The student has the responsibility to choose the topic with the assistance of the instructor.

Information Technology in Nursing

3 lectures

In this course, the students will be formally introduced to information technology in nursing, health and healthcare. This course is designed to prepare students to critically analyze and synthesize the application of healthcare information technology in professional nursing practice. It integrates nursing science with computer technology and information science to identify, gather, process, and manage information.

Evidence-Based Practice and Critical Thinking

This course aims at introducing nursing students to the concept of evidence-based practice and the use of critical thinking in utilizing the appropriate evidence for best nursing practice. It introduces students to several major models of utilizing the evidence and focus on one major contemporary model namely John Hopkins University Hospital Model of EBP. The course describes the several methods of finding the evidence using the databases of scientific research, reading and critiquing research papers and applying critical thinking concepts in the process of translating the evidence to practice. A special focus is placed on the cyclical process of identifying clinical questions, searching and appraising the evidence for potential solutions/innovations, planning and implementing practice changes, evaluating the outcomes and identifying additional gaps in nursing knowledge.