The course provides the student with an understanding of the structure (macroscopic and microscopic) of the human body. It includes an overview on the levels of organization, basic cell and tissue components and their role in regulation of normal body functions. It follows a systemic approach to cover the anatomy of all body systems.

This course is design to provide students with essential knowledge about the vital function performed by the human body organs, in order to understand the integrity of body as whole, that explain the normal physiological function which consider as a standard as data base for any functional deviation.

This course provides the students with the background they need in different aspects of microbiology. The course covers the basic principles of microbiology, and then provides detailed information on major microbes (bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoa) regarding their properties, transmission, pathogenesis, clinical findings, laboratory diagnosis, treatment and preventions. 

Relationship of organic biochemistry & biochemistry, structure & function of biochemistry, general properties of enzymes, regulation & their applications in nursing. Energy production in living systems & the metabolic pathways involved. Storage of energy & biosynthetic reactions. Nucleic acid & protein biosynthesis. Biotechnology &, molecular biology as related to pathology. Biochemical of hormones action & nutrition.

This course is designed to provide students with a clear, concise introduction to pharmacology. The basic explanations Drug therapy is one of the most important and complicated treatment modalities in modern health care.  Providing information that accurately reflects current practices in drug therapy. Facilitating the acquisition, comprehension, and application of knowledge related to drug therapy. Identifying knowledge and skills the nurse can use to smooth the interface between a drug and the patient receiving it. This course describes the general, drug preparations, drug therapeutic effect, drug adverse effect, drug administration.

This course provides the students with the basic informations regarding, the chemical behavior of carbon which makes it exceptionally versatile as a building block in molecular architecture, structure and functions of nucleic acids, the total of chemical reactions that takes place in living organisms, cell organelles and cell membrane, certain aspects of cellular respiration, Mendel and the gene idea, the chromosomal basis of inheritance and the connection between genes and proteins.

It also includes types of plant cells, tissue systems and plant growth, levels of animal structural organization, types and functions of animal tissues, the kingdoms of life, characteristics of prokaryotes and protists, some of the most important phyla of invertebrate animals, characteristics & diversity of fungi and the immune system.

Measurements and significant figures, chemical reactions; stoichiometry; the gaseous state, thermo chemistry; electronic structure and periodicity; chemical bonding; molecular shapes; states of matter and intermolecular forces; physical properties of solutions.

This course is developed to help the student nurse explore and examine basic knowledge and skills of communication in health and illness. It focuses on understanding aspects of human behavior in health and illness context; building new experience, meanings and therapeutic skills, that will help the student to develop a goal –directed relationship that will introduce change in self and others in the environment, to reach a high level of wellness. The course emphasizes on the role of the nurse as communicator and as a client –teacher, it includes teaching as interval part of nurse –client interaction.

This course provides students with the basic knowledge about human growth and development, which enable them to understand and assess the normal process of human growth and development throughout the life span, as well as normal problems and needs during different stages of human life.

This course is an initial core course in the nursing curriculum that is required for all nursing students studying for a bachelor degree in nursing. Students learn concepts and theories basic to the art and science of nursing. Concepts related to physiological, psychosocial, and spiritual health needs of the individual are integrated.  Legal and ethical roles of the professional Nurse are emphasized. The course aims at providing the students with a solid foundation on which they can build their technical and interpersonal expertise. It is structured to facilitate acquisition of knowledge and professional values necessary to basic nursing care. It introduces the concept of caring as it relates to nursing practice. Basic nursing concepts are presented as essential to the art of holistic caring and supporting structure to practice. The nursing process provides the framework for caring and approved nursing diagnosis (NANDA) and for application of the body of knowledge learned throughout the course.

This first clinical nursing course provide beginning nursing students with the opportunities to develop clinical competencies necessary to meet the needs of individuals throughout the lifespan in a safe, legal ,and ethical manner. It provides them with a non-threatening environment in which they apply nursing knowledge and master basic nursing skills accurately and safely through practice and return demonstration, in a stimulated nursing laboratory. This course acquaints the student with the role of the nurse as a caregiver, manager, leader, change agent, teacher and researcher of health care. This is accomplished through competencies core concepts of caring, critical thinking, decision making and professional commitment.

This clinical laboratory experience helps students to develop health assessment skills, including client health-history taking and physical examination. The legal and ethical aspects of the examination and documentation will be included. Focus is on interviewing skills and systematic performance, analysis and documentation of health assessment process of the adult client. Clinical laboratory experience provides students with a non-threatening environment in which to help them to apply their knowledge of physical assessment to adult clients.

This course provides nursing students with the basic principles, knowledge and skills required for assessment of individual’s health status during health and illness throughout their life span. Students are directed to use an effective communication skill 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.

This course focuses on the care of adult patients with acute or chronic illness and their Responses to actual or potential alterations in health. The nursing process as a method of Providing nursing care and as related to the independent role of the nurse is studied. Problem soloing and critical thinking skills are applied to analysis of data for identifying nursing and collaborative problems. Emphasis is placed on nursing interventions directed toward promotion of system stability, maximum functional status. Basic knowledge needed to assess and manage common acute, chronic and emergent health problems are covered. Also, emphasis will be placed on Pathophysiology, principles of pharmacology and medication use as therapeutic adjuncts and the use of diagnostic procedures as aids in the clinical decision making. This course is considered as a faculty requirement course for the second year nursing students. 

This course focuses on the practical application and care for adult patients with acute or chronic illness and their responses to actual or potential alterations in health. Application of nursing process, critical thinking and problem solving techniques are stressed. This course also provide the nursing students with the needed skills based on a scientific background of knowledge required to care competently and safely for a wide variety of patients in numerous health care settings. Emphasis is placed on nursing interventions directed toward promotion of system stability and maximum functional status.

This course is important course in the nursing that is required for all nursing students studying for a bachelor degree in nursing. Students learn concepts related to nutritional needs of the individual are integrated.  Legal and ethical roles of the professional Nurse are emphasized. The course aims at providing the students with changing throughout the life cycle and a long the wellness- illness continuum. Nutrition is the science of food, the substances found in food and how these substances relate to health and disease. It provides energy and promotes the growth and maintenance of our body. Also it regulates the many body processes such as your heart beating and food being digested and supports optimum health of our body.

      This course applies information on nutritional sciences, community nutrition, and life cycle needs for health maintenance to clinical nutrition needs in disease, and updated terminology. All these information will be used by following the problem-solving approach (nursing process).

The purpose of this course is to equip the nursing students with the knowledge and skills Pertinent to health education to be used in raising health awareness of clients as well as Changing their knowledge, attitude and health behaviors. This course is being thought to the students enrolled in the faculty of nursing who passed successfully through all the prerequisite courses in nursing sciences namely; fundamental of nursing, adult nursing and health assessment. This course is being taught through interactive lecture. Students are required to synthesis a health education course.

This course is presented over one semester as part of the Adult Medical-Surgical Nursing course and is intended to follow Adult Medical-Surgical Nursing 1. This course and Adult 1 are designed to introduce the student to nursing care of the adult suffering from the most prevalent acute and chronic medical and surgical disorders, and provide competencies about disease prevention, and restoration/ maintenance of a healthy lifestyle. This course will focus on management of patients with renal problems, management of patients with reproductive health problems, management of patients with endocrine problems, management of patients with nervous system problems and management of patients with musculoskeletal problems. The nursing process provides a framework for selected independent and interdependent nursing intervention.

This course is designed to provide the student with the knowledge and positive attitudes while providing care for clients and their families. It will focus on the bio-psycho-social responses of adults to actual and high risk conditions, which affect their functional health patterns. These conditions may be acute or long term and the focus will be on selected functional health patterns, including: nutritional-metabolic, cognitive-perceptual and elimination patterns. The nursing process will be used as a framework to formulate nursing diagnosis and identify nursing interventions which promote, maintain and restore the health of adults and their families.

This course introduces the students to appropriate scientific knowledge which enables them to develop their clinical and educational approaches to care of children and their families. The course starts with concepts of health promotion and maintenance, and the prevention of illness and accidents. Selected physiological health problems including alteration in respiratory, metabolic, renal, neurological, endocrinology, cardiac and other health problems common to all children are introduced. The content also addresses the psychological health problems that face children including inorganic failure to thrive, child neglect and child abuse. Nursing management relevant to each problem is discussed using the nursing process, developmental theories, new trends and the recent approaches in the management and caring of children.

This course complements theories from child health nursing and integrates knowledge acquired from nutrition and pharmacology in meeting a competent level of care to children and their families. Students will apply concepts related to growth and development, research, leadership and nursing process in planning comprehensive plan of care for children and their families. This course will introduce students to different clinical setting such as MCH, hospital and rehabilitation centers which enable student to achieve a holistic approach to nursing care through primary prevention, health promotion, health maintenance and rehabilitation. Student will effectively engage in identification of ethical and legal problems which help in decision making and problem solving.

This course is designed for undergraduate student. It is a family-centered course with emphasis on nursing care of women. The focus includes the antenatal, intrapartal, postpartum, and women’s health problems in later stages of life, & the concept of providing counseling in family planning .A brief overview of the newborn & immediate newborn care will also be introduced .The benefit of primary health care needed for the woman & the newborn baby and also the focus on health problems, which affect the woman through the stages of conception till menopause. Students will be offered an opportunity to utilize critical thinking, problem solving & nursing process to achieve optimum benefit.

This course emphasizes on teaching, training and practicing skills related to the maternal roles different cycles of childbearing and childrearing stages. In addition to gynecological procedures and skills related to gynecology. The focus of nursing management is on primary health maintenance and restoration of health by using nursing process.

This course is designed for the beginner student in mental health psychiatric nursing. The course is based on a belief in the value of humanistic and holistic approach to nursing care. The nursing process is used as organizing framework. It provides student with concepts, theories and principles that will illuminate his/her client experience. Each concept Represents a major coping pattern along the mental health- mental illness continuum is addressed through its relation to the anxiety continuum, theoretical bases, its manifestation with the five dimensions  of the person, related nursing diagnosis, psychiatric diagnosis, and nursing care plans.

This course is designed to help the student nurse to explore and gain insight into the problems experienced by the mentally ill person, and the emotional, intellectual social, and spiritual strains that physical illness causes. The student is expected to integrate knowledge base from the mental health psychiatric nursing theory course, utilize the nursing process within the therapeutic nurse client relationship with the emphasis on the humanistic approach, and develop an open communication with health care provider's team to facilitate the client's healing process in structured environment.

This course focuses on acquiring nursing students with the knowledge and skills which is needed to identify the ethical dilemma of nursing research, the importance of nursing research in developing the body of knowledge for nursing science, as well as developing their skills in reading, and conducting a nursing research.

This course introduces the Nursing student to historical overview of nursing science and practice, and discusses the current issues and problems influencing nursing practice and education and possible approaches in dealing with them. Discussion of recent trends in nursing services and nursing education and their possible application to nursing profession will be covered. In addition focuses on ethical influences and legal aspects that face nurses in providing care for their patients and families.

      This course is designed to develop knowledge necessary for the critical care nurses to provide complex therapeutic nursing interventions for health problems commonly encountered within the critical care environment. The course utilizes critical thinking processes to achieve successful integration of theoretical understanding in relation to clinical application.

This clinical course provides the student with the advanced knowledge, attitudes & skills needed to provide comprehensive nursing care for patients with critical health conditions. The course focuses on preparing student to assist the patient & his family to adapt to their conditions & achieve the optimal level of care. The student uses critical thinking, communication skills, problem solving, decision making to prioritizing nursing diagnoses & implement therapeutic nursing interventions for patients with critical health conditions, also the student will be able to integrate scientific data, advanced technology & resources in the hospital setting & research findings into the nursing process while caring for patients & their families. This clinical course gives the student opportunities to explore critical care nursing & to work in peer relationships with critical care staff nurses in critical care units.

This course is designed to help the student to gain good broad perspective of community health nursing emphasis will be the family in the community knowledge and skills learned previously are used to guide the concepts of the individuals or in wellness. Concepts of the nursing process within the family and self care framework are applied. Analysis of roles and interactions of the community health nurse with the individual family and community is to be worked upon (such as nursing roles in school health, occupational health, and roles for clients with special needs. Related topics to the family and community health will be discussed.

This course is designed to help the student to master the skills of community health nursing .Emphasis will be on working with the family in the community and work in several community health care centers as a community staff nurse. The student will be responsible of conducting home visits. Planning needed intervention to meet community needs, and applying health education principles when applying health education in community setting.

This course is a fourth year faculty requirement. It will provide the nursing students with basic knowledge with regard to the current issues in leadership and management. Topics will include administrative theories, leadership strategies, empowerment, organizational paradigms, communicating visions and goals. The course will also consider stimulating change, institutional management, community-based practice and case management.

The purpose of this course is to enable the nursing students to apply the elements of the Management process in the various health care settings. Emphasis is placed on the development of leadership skills in the management of patient care. This course is being taught to the students enrolled in the Faculty of Nursing who passed successfully through all the clinical perquisite courses in nursing sciences namely,

fundamentals of nursing, adult nursing, pediatric nursing, obstetric and gynecological nursing and psychiatric nursing. This course is being taught through clinical practice in various health care settings.

This course is based on all competencies acquired from previous courses that serve to enable the nursing student to practice as a novice care nurse practitioner. Students have the opportunities to apply competencies for direct clinical practice, ethical decision-making, leadership, change agent, collaboration, coach, advocacy and research in the context of advanced practice. Student will provide nursing care for patients of all ages requiring acute critical care. Nursing theoretical approaches to complex care nursing will be applied in the clinical experience. Clinical experiences will occur in different hospitals units with patients across the lifespan.

Core competencies emphasized in this course are caring, critical thinking, decision making, professional commitment, leadership, professionalism, communication and patient safety. The focus is on applying role competencies as care provider, designer, coordinator and novice manager of care. The emphasis is on understanding the key skills employed by highly successful nurse leader's managers such as thinking critically, communicating effectively, handling conflict, delegating successfully, building teams, controlling resources, improving quality, managing stress, and leading change.