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Health Assessment

2 lectures

NRS 233

This course designed to provide students with knowledge and skills required for assessment of individual’s health status during health and illness. Students are directed to use effective communication skills to collect data about health history required for the performance of physical examinations based on the functional health patterns that affect the individual’s health status.  Knowledge from medical sciences and critical thinking are used to determine any health alterations of the individual

Health Assessment Skills Development \ Lab

2 lab

NRS 234

This laboratory based course is a co – requisite to the Health Assessment/Theory (NRS 241). It is designed to assist students to acquire basic essential skills to perform physical assessment and data collection for various patients in different health care settings. Thus, students are trained to collect subjective and objective data in order to design patients' care accordingly.

Adult and Geriatric Health Nursing-1\ Theory

3 lectures

NRS 233

This course is designed to introduce fourth level nursing students to the basic principles of nursing care and management of adult health problems related to respiratory, cardiovascular, , endocrine and gastrointestinal systems. These principles will assist students to provide the comprehensive nursing care needed to meet their needs by utilizing the nursing process.

Adult and Geriatric Health Nursing-1\Clinical

3Clinical setting

NRS 234

This course is designed to help the nursing students to apply the basic principles of nursing care and management of adult health problems related to respiratory, cardiovascular, immobility, endocrine and gastrointestinal systems by utilizing the nursing process .

Pharmacologic Aspects of Patient Care

3 lectures

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This course deals with pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, clinical/therapeutic uses and toxicology of drugs. Emphasis is given on how a drug works to anticipate when giving a drug to a patient are of paramount importance since nursing responsibilities include administering drugs, calculating medication dosages based on given setting, assessing drug effects, intervening to make a drug more tolerable, and providing teaching about drugs and the drug regimen.  

Microbiology for Nursing

1 lecture+1 lab

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This course is an introduction to the pathogenic microorganisms of humans including, bacteria, viruses, and fungi with a major emphasis on bacteriology and aseptic techniques and also the impact of microbes on everyday life. Further, this course uses a hands-on approach to investigate microbial growth and factors that impact growth and the interactions of microbes with biotic and abiotic environments.

Principles of Anatomy

1 lecture+1 lab

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This course involves the study of the structure of the human body including a gross and microscopic study of cell, tissues, and organ systems listed in the course outline.  All major human organ systems are completed by the end of this Course. 

Principles of Physiology

1 lecture+1 lab

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This course serves as a base for the other nursing courses and is intended to provide the second year students with the basic nursing concepts and principles needed for the nursing practice. This course provides the student with an introduction to each of the major physiological organ systems (cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, endocrine, neural and gastrointestinal) as well as basic concepts of cellular physiology.

Introduction to Clinical Skills in Patient Care

4 lectures

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This course serves as a base for other nursing courses. It is designed to provide the third level students with the basic nursing concepts and theoretical principles needed for the practice of nursing. The course emphasizes the student's understanding of the nature of the client needs and the interventions required utilizing the functional health patterns such as exercise and rest, nutrition, and elimination.

Patient Care Clinical Skills Laboratory

4 lab

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This course provides a mastery of entry level nursing skills and competencies for a variety of health care settings, it is as important to nurses as theoretical knowledge. It serves as base for the other nursing courses. It is designed to introduce the nursing student to a wide variety of basic clinical nursing skills, which progress in level of difficulty. 

Emergency Care

1 lecture+1 lab

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This two-credit hour course consists of two parts; theory and practice. The theoretical part (1 credit hour) is designed to provide CAMS students with basic knowledge related to emergency cases. This knowledge includes definition and scope of emergency care, assessment of the victim, vital signs, and emergency care provided for certain emergencies. The practical part (1 credit hour, 2 actual hours) provide students with skills needed to care for injured or ill clients until the arrival of advanced medical personnel. It includes assessing vital signs, BLS (Basic Life Support) for adults, children, and Infants, in addition skills needed to care for certain conditions

Adult and Geriatric Health Nursing-2\ Theory

3 lectures

NRS 243

This course is continue to adult and geriatric health nursing 1, it introduce nursing students to the basic principles of nursing care and management of adult health problems related Selected alterations in health experienced by the adult and geriatrics client (i.e. renal, musculoskeletal, nervous, immunology, eye and ear, integumentary and infectious diseases).These principles will assist students to provide the comprehensive nursing care needed to meet their needs by utilizing the nursing process.

Adult and Geriatric Health Nursing-2\ Clinical

3Clinical setting

NRS 244

This course is continue to adult and geriatric health nursing 1, it introduce nursing students to the basic principles of nursing care and management of adult health problems related Selected alterations in health experienced by the adult and geriatrics client (i.e. renal, musculoskeletal, nervous, immunology, eye and ear, integumentary and infectious diseases).These principles will assist students to provide the comprehensive nursing care needed to meet their needs by utilizing the nursing process .

Nursing: History, Trends and Issues

3 lectures

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This course provides an exploration of nursing history and current professional issues in nursing. Specifically, students will develop an understanding of the development of nursing history and its major landmarks and forces that shaped it during all stages of its development, basic knowledge about the complex issues of nursing within multidisciplinary practice in a variety of surrounding environments. The course explores issues and trends of furthering the profession, current nursing shortage, workplace issues, policy, ethical principled behavior, trans-cultural concepts, culture and practice competencies, and legal and ethical issues in nursing practice and healthcare systems. Students will be asked to apply this knowledge and discuss the impact of a current professional issue focused on the junior nurse's role. The students will explore the challenges or opportunities that arise around these issues.

Principles of Nutrition

2 lectures

NRS 234

This course introduces nursing students to the concepts of nutrition in illness and wellness. Students will be able to learn about the nutritional requirements of clients during all stages of their life. Attention is given to the nutrition and metabolism, nutrition and illness, influence of culture on nutrition, and the role of professional nurses in assessing and providing proper nutritional needs of all clients.

Pathophysiology

2 lectures

NRS 232

This pathophysiology course will provide an in-depth study of the abnormal physiology associated with disease, the pathologic processes (pathogenesis) of disease and how that disease affects the human organism. The pathologies to be studied will be diseases that have the greatest effect on our society, with an emphasis on those complex pathologies that are most commonly encountered by health care providers. The study approach will be around major body systems and common diseases characteristic of those major body systems for the adult and child.  

Human Growth and Development

3 lectures

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This course is designed to introduce nursing students to the concepts of growth, development, and maturation. It explores the stage of growth and development throughout the life span. Specific emphasis is placed on the physical, emotional, cognitive, social, and spiritual growth and development of human beings. Theories of personality development and nursing precaution measures in each developmental stage are also addressed.

Maternal-Newborn Heath Nursing / Theory

3 lectures

NRS 351

This course focuses on the study of women during different cycles of their lives including childbearing, childrearing, and menopausal periods. Knowledge of reproductive health, safe motherhood and gynecological aspects are essential for the planning and implementation of care during preconception, conception, antenatal, and postnatal periods. The course reveals the needs of the mother and infant during the antenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum periods.

Maternal-Newborn Heath Nursing / Clinical

3Clinical setting

NRS 352

This course provides both relevant instructional and clinical learning experiences for students to applying the nursing process and critical thinking skills as prime frameworks prior in providing holistic care to the childbearing family during ante-partum, intra-partum and postpartum periods in a variety of settings.

Pediatric Health Nursing / Theory

3 lectures

NRS 351

This course introduces the students to the normal growth and development of the children from infancy to adolescence. Also, it covers the pathological entities of children: the major systems of the body, respiratory, cardiovascular, hematology, and gastrointestinal, gentato-urinary, central nervous system, endocrine, integumentary and musculoskeletal systems will be taught. 

The goal of this course is to enable the student to utilize the nursing process to develop plans of care for the pediatric patients, recognizing and addressing the psychological, developmental, and physiological implications of nursing to the pediatric patient.

Pediatric Health Nursing / Clinical

3Clinical setting

NRS 352

This course requires students to utilize the nursing process in the care of healthy and high risk pediatric populations and their families experiencing disruptions in biopsychosocial, cultural and spiritual needs. Emphasis is also placed on meeting health promotion and health maintenance needs, caring, therapeutic communication, documentation and teaching. Students are expected to spend the first 6 weeks in the lab followed by 8 weeks in pediatric clinical areas.

Advanced Emergency Health Care

1 lecture+1 lab

CAMS231

This course is designed to introduce nursing students to the concepts of growth, development, and maturation. It explores the stage of growth and development throughout the life span. Specific emphasis is placed on the physical, emotional, cognitive, social, and spiritual growth and development of human beings. Theories of personality development and nursing precaution measures in each developmental stage are also addressed.

Community Health Nursing/Theory

3 lectures

NRS 361& 363

This course is designed to provide the student with the essential knowledge and skills related to the latest concepts in family and community health, and how to work as a community health nurse. The students will understand the principles of environmental health, and ways to provide nursing care and health education in different settings, including health care centers, homes, schools, factories and associations dealing with clients

Community Health Nursing/Clinical

3Clinical setting

NRS 362& 364

This course is designed to apply principles of community health nursing and to help the student to gain a broad perspective of community health nursing. Knowledge and skills learned previously are used to guide the concepts of the individuals within the family and within the community either in illness or in wellness. Concepts of the nursing process within the family and self-care framework are applied.

Mental Health Nursing/Theory

3 lectures

NRS 351

The purpose of this course is to provide students with the knowledge, skills and attributes they will require to become compassionate mental health nurses, health practitioners, and future leaders in the discipline of Mental Health Nursing. The course also aims at providing students with evidence-based knowledge and skills required for nursing practitioners to care for their clients and to meet the challenges of mental health nursing while providing high quality health services to individuals and families with diverse mental health needs across the lifespan.

Mental Health Nursing/Clinical

3Clinical setting

NRS 352

This course will introduce the principles and practices of psychiatric/mental health nursing care of the adult population, enabling students to gain the basic knowledge and ability required. Clinical practice occurs in a range of healthcare settings and with a variety of patient populations requiring psychiatric nursing care, treatment, and intervention. Students will be expected to apply previously learned theory concepts, treatment modalities, and clinical techniques to acquire and apply clinical skills. Students are provided with the opportunity to practice basic interpersonal communication skills, physiologically oriented interventions, and skills and interventions geared towards meeting the social, intellectual/ emotional, and spiritual needs of diverse patients’ populations.

Methods of Nursing Research

3 lectures

CAMS231

This course introduces nursing students to the fundamentals and principles of the research process and their application in nursing. The importance of searching relevant literature, understanding research methods, reviewing research, understanding, and evaluating research findings related to the practice of nursing is emphasized.

Intensive Care for Adults

2 lectures+1 lab

NRS 351

This course focuses on pathophysiological and psychological responses of clients experiencing critical health disruptions. Concepts from pathophysiology, nursing science, pharmacology, and medical technology are integrated as a theoretical base for practicing critical care nursing and managing critical health disruptions. Approaches of analytical thinking, decision making, homodynamic monitoring, patients education, analysis of research results, and nursing process are used to build a system to identify physiological, psychosocial, and spiritual responses to critical health disruptions in order to deliver appropriate nursing care .

Intensive Care for Newborns

2 lecture+1 lab

NRS 363

This course allows students to broaden their understanding and knowledge of the neonate requiring intensive care support and treatment that include assisting the neonate to optimal health within the context of family centered care. The neonatal intensive care stream subjects aim to develop the neonatal nurses’ ability to evaluate and manage the wide variety of conditions that present in the perinatal environment.

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.