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NUR101
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Foundations of Nursing
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This foundational course in nursing explores the historical, philosophical, scientific, ethical and legal bases for the profession of nursing. It examines nursing as a profession and prepares students to acquire the knowledge, attitudes and skills ne...
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NUR201
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Health Promotion
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This course explores concepts of health, health promo- tion, health protection and illness prevention throughout the lifespan. It introduces the student to factors that influence health and wellness and strategies for promotion and maintenance of hea...
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NUR203
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Health Assessment
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This course introduces the student to the nursing process and health assessment of well individuals throughout the lifecycle. The nursing process framework is used for interviewing, data collection and performing physical assessment. Opportunities ar...
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NUR204
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Patient & Health Care Worker Safety
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This theory and clinical practice course provides the student with key concepts and principles of infection prevention and control, injection safety, and blood safety, which are fundamental to safe nursing practice.
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NUR205
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First Aid & Basic Life Support
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This course provides students with the knowledge of the principles of managing first aid in emergency situations in the home, community and health care facilities.
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NUR214
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Community Health Nursing
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This course introduces the student to basic concepts of community-based nursing focusing on the family and community as units of care. Principles, theories, and concepts of community health nursing are utilised to generate an understanding of the rol...
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NUR215
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Community Health Nursing Clinical Practicum
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This course focuses on community health nursing clinical practicum in the community. Guided clinical experiences are provided at selected community-based agencies and organisations to enable students to observe the role of members of the health team...
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NUR216
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Concepts Applied to Nursing
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This course introduces the student to basic nursing skills. It focuses on concepts of caring, body image, pain, loss, grief and the grieving process, dying and death, immobility and chronicity. The student is introduced to hospitalization. The nurses...
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NUR217
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Concepts Applied to Nursing Clincal Practicum
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This course provides an opportunity for students to implement selected basic nursing skills relative to the course Concepts Applied to Nursing in acute care settings. The focus of the course is to assist students develop competence and confidence in...
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NUR240
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Pathophysiology
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This course focuses on the structural and physiological changes occurring in the body as a result of disease processes. The course introduces students to the concepts of abnormality and provides information on the sequel of dis- eases, alterations in...
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NUR250
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Pharmacology in Nursing
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This course introduces the students to the knowledge and principles of pharmacology, a brief history
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NUR265
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Mental Health Nursing
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This course focuses on mental health, as well as the basic psychopathology of mental disorders of individuals and families throughout the lifecycle who are experiencing varying states of mental health. The environmental influences affecting the menta...
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NUR266
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Mental Health Nursing Clinical Practicum
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The clinical experience of this course enhances theoretical learning related to the mental health needs of individuals and families. The essential features of the clinical experience in a variety of settings are caring, professionalism, skills and co...
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NUR305
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Adult Health Nursing (19-64 yrs.)
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This course focuses on the develop- ment of nursing competence in planning and managing care for individuals (19-64 yrs.) and families with alterations in health status. The course stresses the integration of physiological, pathophysiological, pharma...
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NUR306
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Adult Health Nursing (19064 yrs.) Clinical Practicum
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This course pro- vides the student with foundational clinical experiences necessary for the management of adult health, including health promotion, illness prevention and treatment. Emphasis is on utilisation of the nursing process, critical thinking...
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NUR315
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Care of the Elderly
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This course critiques and applies social and biological theories of ageing (65 years and over) and psychosocial models of growth and devel- opment to the study of the elderly in a variety of settings such as, the community, acute care and long-term c...
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NUR316
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Care of the Elderly Clinical Practicum
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The application of health and nurs- ing concepts and theories in the care of the elderly patient and family. Emphasis is on practising inter-disciplinary health care, advocacy in order to promote health and pre- vent illness, disability and disease o...
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NUR325
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Childbearing Family
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This course presents basic nursing theory of the childbearing family from conception through delivery and the neonate. Exploration of normal changes and processes of pregnancy and delivery including the neonate, as well as the physiological, emotiona...
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NUR326
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Childbearing Family Clinical Practicum
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This course provides the experi- ence for the student to integrate theory and skills in the nursing interventions for parental and foetal health during pregnancy, childbirth and the post-partum period, and the neonate up to 28 days of life. Practice...
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NUR330
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Child Care Nursing (1 mth.-18 yrs.)
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This course provides a theoretical foundation of nursing care of children of all age groups (1 month-18 years) along the well-illness continuum within the framework of normal physical, cognitive, and psy- chosocial development. Health and wellness ar...
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NUR331
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Child Care Nursing (1 mth.-18 yrs.) Clinical Practicum
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This practicum course concentrates on health maintenance and the prevention of illness, and care of the child from 1 month to 18 years. The practicum provides opportunities for students to deliver nursing care that is adapted to the unique health and...
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NUR401
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Research Project
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This course provides the opportunity for the student to select a research topic relevant to nursing under guidance of the instructor. Prior to undertaking the research, the student will present for approval a written project outline. On completion of...
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NUR405
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Specialised Nursing
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This course provides information on the organisation, structure, personnel, functions and care of patients in the specialised units, namely the Accident and Emergency, Operating Theatre, Recovery Room, and Intensive Care Unit. Trauma management, emer...
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NUR406
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Specialised Nursing Clinical Practicum
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This course enables the student to integrate and consolidate acquired knowledge and skills and to gain practical expe- riences in the areas covered in the Specialised Nursing course.
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NUR410
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Leadership & Management in Nursing
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This course explores management and leadership concepts and theories and their application to nursing. The course is designed to introduce the student to elements and techniques of management of health care facilities and personnel. The role of the n...
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NUR411
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Leadership & Management in Nursing Practicum
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This course allows for the application of the concepts and theories of the Leadership and Management in Nursing course to the management of patient care units. All previously learned knowl- edge and skills will be integrated into the clinical experie...
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NUR420
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Transitional Nursing
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This course is designed to assist the student in assuming the role of the Registered General Nurse. Registration and licensure processes, legal aspects of nursing, issues and trends in nursing and health care, and ethics and biomedical ethical concer...
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