COURSE DESCRIPTION
| Course Code | Course Name | Credit hours | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| A0627202 | Advanced cardiorespiratory Care Nursing (2)/ Clinical* | 1 | This course helps students to enhance their skills of caring for patients with complex cardiorespiratory conditions. This course enables the students to build capabilities and competencies required for specific treatment plans of caring for critically ill patients with complex cardiorespiratory illnesses including personalized care planning, health-education and follow-up. A simulated environment of critical care settings will be used to provide life like learning experience to the students about critical care aspects required in a hospital. |
| A0627204 | Critical Care Nursing/system approach (Clinical)* | 1 | This course aims at helping the student to become a proficient nurse with advanced knowledge and evidence based clinical practice in nursing care. It is designed to prepare the students to take forward the development and delivery of innovative nursing care. The course will focus on providing the students with relevant clinical experiences and competencies in a variety of health care settings utilizing the nursing process as a framework in providing the care for clients with neurological, endocrine, renal, multi-organ failure, trauma and their families. Students will also be expected to complete a range of clinical competencies throughout the course. |
| A0627103 | Advanced Cardiorespiratory Care Nursing (1)/ Clinical* | 1 | This course provides the students with the opportunity to apply knowledge gained from the theory in the management of patients with complex cardiac and respiratory problems. Emphasis is on delivering holistic, evidenced-based and culturally sensitive nursing care to critically ill patients and family using multidisciplinary approach. Students engage in physical assessment, interpretation of medical data, differential diagnoses, development and implementation of management plans, documentation in the medical record, and performing relevant procedures to the critically-ill adult- population. The focus is on providing advanced care to clients with complex cardiovascular and respiratory illnesses. |
| A0627201 | Advanced Cardiorespiratory Care Nursing (2) | 2 | This course builds on previous theoretical and clinical knowledge to prepare the student to provide specialized cardiorespiratory nursing care for patients and families with complex cardiorespiratory health problems. This course enables the students to integrate, at an advanced level, pathophysiology, assessment, diagnosis, and current research findings for the collaborative management of adult with critical and life-threatening cardiorespiratory health problems using advanced technology. Content includes respiratory failure, diffuse lung diseases and cardiovascular disorders. Emphasis is on prioritizing the care of patients with complex cardiorespiratory health problems in acute and critical health care settings. |
| A0617101 | Research Methodology in Nursing | 3 | This course provides students with advanced and comprehensive knowledge of scientific research methods in terms of characteristics and uses. This course focuses on the process of constructive criticism and methodology and discussing the results of scientific research. The focus is on using scientific research to develop a database that can be used in practice. Through this course, the student applies the foundations and methods of scientific research by designing research projects in his field of specialization. |
| A0627203 | Critical Care Nursing/system approach | 2 | This course focuses on the causes of multi-organ system dysfunction and the human responses to life threatening illness . Nursing care focused on restoring physiologic and psychological stability to the severely ill client will be explored. Core concepts of complex pathophysiology, current treatment modalities, and the role nurses perform when providing care to critically ill patients with neurological, endocrine, renal, multi-organ failure, trauma and end-of-life are discussed. |
| A0627102 | Advanced Cardiorespiratory Care Nursing (1) | 2 | This course introduces the students to the principles and concepts of specialist cardiac and respiratory nursing. It focuses on care of the patient with cardiac and respiratory illnesses who requires interventional procedures and/or surgery. Students will be introduced to the structure and function of the cardiac and respiratory anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology of atherosclerosis, acute coronary syndrome, and respiratory diseases. Key clinical investigations including ECG and ABG interpretation will be covered in-depth, and students will gain a comprehensive understanding of various cardiac and respiratory interventions and the associated nursing care. |
| A0617102 | Statistical Analysis in Nursing Research | 3 | This course focuses on providing students the knowledge of appropriate statistical methods (i.e. descriptive and inferential). This course includes students training on the use of statistical analysis software. This training will cover the following aspects including: data coding, entry, cleaning, and analysis. Also, students will be able to interpret and write up the results into one of the scientific report forms. |
| A0627104 | Advanced Health Assessment theory* | 1 | This course provides students with advanced knowledge and skills of comprehensive physical examination for individuals. In this course, students will be trained on collecting comprehensive health history and assessing functions of human body systems to be used in writing an appropriate nursing diagnosis. Students are expected to use critical thinking and clinical decision making to develop a customized nursing care plan based on these findings. |
| A0627105 | Advanced Health Assessment clinical* | 1 | This course provides students with advanced health assessment skills to perform comprehensive physical examination for a variety of clients to identify client?s health needs and illness status, and to plan, implement and evaluate appropriate holistic management. During laboratory/clinical experiences psychomotor skills and the use of advanced technologies will be developed , this course also enables the students to differentiate abnormal from normal findings using advanced assessment techniques such as obtaining appropriate health history and performing physical examinations on adult patients with complex problems in a variety of critical care settings, In addition, the course emphasizes proper documentation of data obtained and the development of appropriate plans of care. |
| A0627301 | Advanced clinical training*** | 0 | Advanced clinical practice enables master students to further develop their advanced skills and innovate as advanced specialist through integration of knowledge of disease alterations and effective of health and nursing interventions. Students will practice in an acute and critical care settings for the development of clinical competence and clinical judgment in relation to cardiac and respiratory diseases by completing a comprehensive patient assessment, identification of treatment and management modalities based on an individual clinical presentation. In addition, students will expand their practice to understand altered physiological processes in relation to endocrine, neurological, renal and abdominal disease processes. Students will also debate the legal and professional influences the advanced practice role in the context of today?s healthcare system challenges. |
| A0627101 | Advanced Pharmacology | 2 | This course focuses on students' learning of pharmacology concepts in the field of treating community-specific. Also, through this course, the student can discuss the pros and cons of the different methods of giving the drug to patients and learn about the indications for their use, methods of work, instructions for giving and their side effects, contraindications to the uses of medicines and the role of the nurse in giving them. |
| Course Code | Course Name | Credit hours | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| A0627302 | Therapeutics Interventions | 3 | The course introduces the student to cardiac and respiratory therapeutic modalities. The focus is on patients receiving intensive cardiorespiratory care strategies including, but not limited to basic and advanced respiratory care, invasive and non-invasive monitoring. Practical skills of electrocardiography, diagnosis and treatment of arrhythmias, cardiac medications and noninvasive cardiac diagnostic techniques clinical EKG's. At the end of the course, students must achieve certification in Advanced Cardiac Life Support. |
| A0627305 | Nursing Palliative Care of Acute/Critical Cases | 3 | In this course, students will learn about models of care in palliative care, the patient/family-centred model of palliative care, the interdisciplinary team concept and regulatory aspects of these practice models. Focus is on the value of palliative care as a basic human right and the care of individuals with acute, life-threatening, and progressive cardiorespiratory illnesses, emphasizing respect for patients' and families' beliefs, values, and choices. Students explore psychosocial and spiritual dimensions of palliative care. The sociocultural, economic, legal, and ethical trends in palliative care will be discussed. Students will acquire competencies in patient/family assessment, communication, decision-making, and interdisciplinary collaboration in palliative care. |
| A0627303 | Advanced Emergency and Disaster Nursing | 3 | This course aims to provide students with the knowledge, modern scientific methods and advanced skills necessary to provide immediate and safe nursing care during disasters and emergencies. This course includes introducing students to the meaning and types of natural and artificial disasters and how to deal with them as pre-emergency, preparedness, response, and recovery phases. Acquainting students with technical and legal issues and the nurse's role in operational plan and analysis recover processes. |
| A0627308 | Special Topics | 3 | This course is designed to discuss critical and current nursing issues using the most recent literature and relevant instructions relevant to these issues. |
| A0627306 | Advanced Pathophysiology | 3 | This course aims to provide students with advanced knowledge of physiological changes when diseases occur. Also, the mechanisms of regulation and compensation by the body's systems to address the critical imbalances associated with the disease are explained. This course deals with physiological imbalances in the event of some diseases that need attention, such as those associated with the elderly, people with drug use and addiction, and chronic diseases requiring palliative care. This course increases students' ability to understand and plan comprehensive and necessary nursing care for patients in specialized community care units such as nursing homes and addictions. |
| A0627307 | Ethical and Legal Issues in Critical Care Nursing | 3 | This course gives the opportunity for students to discuss the implications of ethical and legal issues that nurses may face during providing care for patients with cardiorespiratory illnesses in a variety of health care delivery settings. In addition, the course will focus on the role of the nurse as a patient advocate discuses some of the cross cultural and ethical issues that face nurses in providing care for their patients and families and provide guidelines for ethical decision making. The students will participat in review scenarios encountered in variety of health care settings and discuss the ethical and/or legal issues presented at the end of life. |
| A0627304 | Simulation and Nursing Informatics | 3 | This course provides students with theory and hands-on training on simulation skills using high fidelity manikins. The course covers preparing design and implementation of scenarios. In addition, the course orients students to the foundation of health informatics and enhances students competency in using information technology to ensure safety and quality care health informatics and enhances students competency in using information technology to ensure safety and quality care. Electronic Health Records (EHR), health data management, tele-health, and application of Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) using information technology, will be emphasized |
Al-Ahliyya Amman University
