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Course Description

 


 
Course Descriptions
 

وصف المساقات

Clinical Assessment/Theory

911212

This course provides the theoretical foundation for health assessment, physical examination, and clinical experience to employ knowledge and science in practical practice. Students will learn interview techniques and skills, taking medical history, and clinical physical examination, with a focus on adults, and utilizing medical history-taking skills, clinical examination, and practical skills such as patient examination through palpation, percussion, and auscultation. This course focuses on normal examinations and findings for body systems examination, in addition to abnormal findings and various diseases.

Clinical Assessment/Practical

911217

This course provides practical fundamentals and principles for health assessment and physical examination, as well as practical clinical experience to employ information and knowledge in a clinical context for nursing practices. Students will learn interview procedures skills, taking medical history, clinical physical examination, and identifying and documenting common and important symptoms during their studies.

Community Health Nursing (Theory)

0910435

This course introduces students to basic and intermediate concepts of community health nursing including health promotion and disease prevention across the lifespan. The main focus of this course revolves around building students' capacity to think critically and discuss the role of community health care nurses in various settings outside the hospital. Nursing students will be introduced to diverse health problems and dilemmas related to populations found in Jordan and countries around the world.

Adult Health Nursing / Practical 2

0911224

This course is designed to provide nursing students with the required skills to efficiently and safely care for various patients in different specialty areas. Care for adult patients with specific and complex problems will be addressed. The nursing process is applied to maintain physiological, psychological, social, and cultural safety. Emphasis is placed on critical analysis of patient data and responses to nursing interventions.

Gerontological Nursing

0910430

This course is designed to teach students the foundations and standards of providing nursing care to the elderly within an interactive framework of the nursing process. Focus is on understanding the unique needs of older adults, encouraging health promotion and self-care, identifying changing responses of elderly clients to medical conditions, and maintaining functional levels that enhance quality of life.

Critical Care Nursing/Theory

0911410

This course provides students with the skills, knowledge, and attitudes necessary to provide comprehensive and intensive care to patients with critical health conditions. It focuses on enabling them to use the nursing process as a framework for providing nursing care with minimal risks, complications, or disabilities and within physiological health patterns, and helps students interpret the latest scientific research results and studies in providing advanced nursing care.

Adult Health Nursing 2 Theory

0911223

The course focuses on theoretical knowledge related to the care of adults with common medical and surgical problems. The focus in this course is on using the nursing process, developing competence in providing and coordinating nursing care, and the role of nurses in providing safe, high-quality care to medical and surgical patients.

Adult Nursing 1 Practical

0911222

This course provides nursing students with the essential knowledge and skills required to efficiently and safely care for adult patients with various medical and surgical conditions. Nursing processes are applied as a means to maintain physiological, psychological, social, and cultural safety. This course emphasizes critical analysis skills of patient data and patient responses to nursing interventions and procedures.

Health Education

0910247

This course aims to provide students with important knowledge and skills for practicing health education. This course will focus on basic principles and concepts of the teaching and learning process used in increasing clients'/patients' health awareness and enabling them to change their behavior. Teaching and learning strategies are explored to help students identify the learning needs of their clients/patients, initiate a participatory teaching and learning process, and prepare a health education plan for them.

Critical Care Nursing /Practical

0911414

This course is designed to provide nursing students with the required skills to efficiently and safely care for patients with critical conditions. The focus is on providing students with a practical clinical opportunity to expand their knowledge base and master the psychomotor skills of critical care related to assessment and providing comprehensive nursing care to patients with serious life-threatening conditions. Emphasis is placed on critical thinking, clinical judgment, decision-making, and teamwork in this course.

Nursing Professional Ethics

0910308

This course examines clinical and non-clinical aspects of the professional nursing role. Additionally, it focuses on professional development and risks threatening its professional standing, and prepares students to participate in non-clinical activities and discussions that are an integral part of nursing. Moreover, this course openly discusses the nurse's role in promoting clients' rights through informed consent and advance directives.

Maternal and Newborn Health Nursing\Theory

0910329

This course provides an understanding of the nurse's role in maternal care. This course addresses nursing care issues from physiological, pathophysiological, and psycho-social contexts. This course builds on previous nursing courses with a focus on utilizing the nursing process in dealing with women's health, maternal health, and newborn health. Students will become familiar with concepts of health promotion, disease prevention, and health modifications related to women.

Human Growth and Development

0910229

This course highlights the science of human development, its history and methods, and explains common factors and differences between ethnic groups and cultures in terms of physical, psychological, and mental development. It also discusses the broader social context in which humans develop. The purpose of this course is to provide nursing students with the knowledge and skills necessary for effective assessment of human development across different age stages, to promote normal growth and development, and to detect any developmental disorders across the human lifespan.

Pediatric and Adolescent Health Nursing/Theory

0910330

This course provides students with the necessary scientific information to enhance their clinical and educational approaches to child and family care. It teaches students the nursing role in caring for children. Additionally, it addresses nursing care challenges from a physiological, pathological, and psychological perspective for children during different illness stages. The course begins with ideas of health promotion and maintenance, as well as prevention of diseases and accidents to which children are exposed.

Communication Skills and Therapeutic Communication

0910347

This course aims to teach students effective communication skills for successful patient care and positive outcomes. This course helps students develop their skills in effective communication with individuals, families, and colleagues to achieve therapeutic goals in healthcare. Using clear practical guidelines, it demonstrates how to enhance the relationship between nurses and healthcare recipients through proven communication strategies.

Fundamentals of Nursing Theory

0911111

This course is designed to provide beginning students with basic knowledge related to the patient's physiological, psychological, and social needs according to functional health patterns. The course also identifies students with integrative aspects of nursing and health beliefs and practices. It focuses on individual patient care in health assessment and physiological and psycho-social care.

Fundamentals of Nursing Practical

0911113

This course aims to introduce students to the application of diverse and intensive clinical skills that are essential for the nursing role and will provide competence and proficiency in clinical skills in the nursing laboratory. Emphasis is on communication skills, interpersonal relationships, and problem-solving. It also includes practical concepts and behaviors for nursing roles in the context of the nursing process and physical and psycho-social care.

Maternal and Newborn Health Nursing \ Practical

0910320

This course aims to apply specialized motor skills and knowledge necessary to provide comprehensive reproductive nursing care and achieve safe maternal coverage in different stages of women's lives. Low and high-risk reproductive conditions, some gynecological conditions, newborn assessment, and learning how to manage them will be discussed based on ethical standards of nursing care and cultural value systems.

Mental Health Nursing /Theory

0910342

This course is designed for nursing students in advanced years of study. It aims to present theoretical foundations in psychiatric disorders and psychopathology symptoms and the foundations upon which procedures are based, whether biological and psycho-social for psychiatric disorders (psychiatric patients) with a focus on the adult category. The nursing process is applied in assessment, diagnosis, planning, and appropriate nursing intervention/procedure for psychiatric disorders.

Management, Leadership and Quality in Nursing/Practical

0910439

This course is designed to provide nursing students with administrative and leadership skills to deal with a number of recurring situations in the health sector, including guidance, counseling, accountability, auditing, and adopting quality standards in the health sector. Assessments have been added for students' skills in decision-making, problem-solving, and conflict resolution in the workplace.

Management, Leadership and Quality in Nursing Theory

0910438

This course contains appropriate knowledge that helps nursing students synthesize theories and concepts related to critical thinking, change theories, conflict resolution, delegation, and changes affecting the healthcare delivery system. Theories and concepts related to leadership and management are presented. This course prepares students to perform effective leadership and management roles with a focus on their interactions with healthcare team members.

Palliative Care Nursing

0910201

This course addresses global trends, studies, and recent developments in palliative care for diverse population groups across various healthcare settings. Students focus on caring for individuals with life-threatening illnesses and advanced diseases while respecting their values, beliefs, and choices. The course explores the psychological, social, and spiritual aspects of palliative care.

Infection Prevention and Control

0910202

This course focuses on providing nursing knowledge and skills in infection prevention and control related to communicable diseases within the nursing care process inside and outside hospitals. Emphasis is placed on understanding the needs of at-risk populations and international guidelines to enhance quality of life across all healthcare sectors.

Adult Nursing I – Theory

0911221

This course aims to provide students with an understanding of medical and surgical conditions affecting adult patients. Students gain adequate knowledge in assessment, nursing management, and specific nursing interventions for each health problem. The course also develops nursing skills such as problem-solving to deliver comprehensive and safe nursing care.

Scientific Research and Biostatistics

0910449

This course introduces undergraduate nursing students to the basic research process as presented in professional nursing literature. It covers fundamental research concepts, terminology, purposes, methods, literature review, data collection and analysis, as well as basic principles of biostatistics required for research.

Emergency Nursing (Old Plan)

0910219

This course aims to provide students with an in-depth understanding of various emergency conditions and the nurse’s role in meeting emergency patient needs. Students gain knowledge and skills required to provide effective nursing care in emergency and disaster situations, including basic and advanced management of patients requiring immediate attention.

Child and Adolescent Health Nursing – Practical

0910333

This course represents the clinical component of child and adolescent health nursing and is offered as a major requirement for third-year nursing students. It focuses on health problems of infants, children, and adolescents based on growth and development principles. Emphasis is placed on the nursing role in health promotion and maintenance through simulation-based and clinical training.

Community Health Nursing – Practical

0910436

This course focuses on the role of community health nurses oriented toward families and communities rather than hospitals, emphasizing health promotion, prevention, and rehabilitation. Students learn the nurse’s role within a multidisciplinary healthcare team and apply epidemiological principles to improve population health.

Field Training

0911415

This course prepares fourth-year nursing students nearing graduation to become professional nurses capable of working independently and collaboratively. In alignment with professional standards, students apply evidence-based theoretical knowledge and practical skills to meet patient and healthcare system demands for safe, high-quality care.

Professional Writing and Medical Terminology

0910210

This course examines medical terminology and vocabulary used by healthcare professionals. It focuses on medical and clinical terms related to human anatomy, physiology, body systems, diagnosis, and pathophysiology.

Mental Health Nursing – Practical

0910343

This course focuses on the study and application of contemporary mental health nursing concepts and effective interpersonal interaction. Students learn therapeutic responses for diverse clients, including those with maladaptive behaviors, while integrating self-awareness and professional growth throughout the course.

General Biology for Health Sciences

0216155

This course covers basic information in molecular biology, cell biology, organisms, and population biology. It includes the study of living cells, plant and animal cell structures, genetics, ecology, biodiversity, and fundamental biological principles.

General Chemistry for Health Sciences

0216145

This course provides a basic introduction to chemical concepts and principles. It equips students with foundational chemistry knowledge, focusing on atomic structure, chemical bonding, and the nature of elements.

Pathophysiology for Nursing

0910145

This course studies the human body from anatomical and functional perspectives, focusing on understanding disease processes and their causes to support effective treatment and prevention.

Anatomy and Histology for Nursing

0910142

These courses provide students with fundamental knowledge of human tissues and organs, their structures, locations, and physiological functions across all body systems.

Biochemistry for Nursing

0240249

This course enables students to understand cellular functions at the molecular level, including the structure of cellular molecules and their interactions.

Microbiology for Nursing

0240211

An introductory course covering essential microbiology concepts, hospital-acquired infections, and the role of microorganisms in disease diagnosis, prevention, and treatment.

Nursing Informatics – Practical

0910218

This course provides nursing students with concepts required to use computerized information systems to improve care delivery, optimize resources, reduce costs, and enhance healthcare quality.

Functional Pathology

0910261

This course provides students with knowledge of disease and functional disorders from anatomical and physiological perspectives, integrating tissue and organ system knowledge to understand normal and altered body functions and disease prevention.

 

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Jarash Road, 20 KM out of Amman, Amman Jordan

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