Syllabus of Fundamentals of Nursing (2)
1. Course Title: Fundamentals of Nursing (2)	
2. Course Number: (205)	
3. Credit Hours:  Total    (5) credits
                   Theory (2) credits                   
                     Lab.     (1) Credit
                   Clinical (2) credits                                           
4. Course Calendar: Total (6) hrs. Weekly of 15 weeks;
                       Theory   (3) hrs.	
                    Lab.     (2) Hrs.                                  
                   Clinical (6) hrs.                            
5. Placement: - First year / second semester
6. Instructors: - Staff of Fundamental of Nursing Unit	
7. Course Description: -	
This course serves as a base for other nursing courses. It is designed to provide the nursing student with the basic nursing concepts and principles needed for practicing nursing. The course emphasizes on the nature of the client's needs, and interventions required for utilizing the patterns of functional health. This course also provides laboratory and clinical guided experiences which helps the nursing student in integrating the basic nursing Concepts into practice. It also enables her/him in performing the nursing activities safely.
8. Course Goals:-
Upon Completion of this course the student will be able to:-
•	Discuss concepts related to functional health patterns and their utilization in providing nursing      care for client.
•	Realize the nursing process as a frame work for providing nursing care for a client with selected alterations in function health patterns.
•	Recognize the principle underlying all nursing intervention procedures related to providing care to client in adult nursing care.
•	Recognize the principles of infection prevention in clinical area.
•	Develop an awareness concerning the importance of health promotion for the adult nursing care.
•	Apply a systematic approach of analyzing the patients problems
•	Utilize systematic approach in assessing the client health status
•	Perform basic nursing skills related to various client conditions.
•	Provide a safe & therapeutic environment for client care.
•	Utilize principles of medical / surgical asepsis & universal precautions in client care.
•	Utilize principles of body mechanics   in positioning, transferring & ambulating the client.	
•	Prepare & administer medications safely.
•	Demonstrate the use of principles accurately in reporting & recording nursing action, intervention, and clients' response.    

9. Course Outline:

Theoretical content

Unit 1: Physical Assessment:        (2) hrs.
•   Overview of physical Assessment.
•   Purpose, Techniques, Equipment, environment
•   Performing a physical assessment
•   .Data collection
Unit 2: Preoperative Nursing:       (4) hrs.
•   Type of surgery
•   Preoperative phases
•   Intra operative phases
•   Post-operative phases

Unit 3: Rest & Sleep:                  (2) hrs.
•   Physiology of sleep
•   Function of sleep, sleep phases, and sleep cycles
•   Factors affecting sleep
•   Sleep assessment
•   Common sleep disorders
Unit 4: Pain Management:        (2) hrs.
•   The process of pain
•   Pain theories
•   Types of pain
•   Pain assessment
•   Pain management
Unit 5: Nutrition:                  (4) hrs.
•    Overview of nutrition
       -Human nutritional needs
       -Nutritional standards
•   Nutritional status assessment
•   Factor affecting nutrition
•   Management of problems interfering with nutrition
•   Common hospital diets
Unit 6: Fluid & Chemical Balance                              (4) hrs.
•   Body fluid, electrolytes & acid - base balance.
•   Fluid volume assessment.
       -Intake & output
     •   Factors affecting body fluid, electrolytes & acid - base balance
     •   Common fluid imbalance.
Unit 7: Bowel Elimination                                     (4) hrs.
• Physiology of Defecation
• Assessment of bowel elimination
• Common alterations in bowel
• Measures of promote bowel elimination
• Ostomy care
Unit 8: Urinary Elimination				(6) hrs.
• Overview of urinary elimination
• Characteristics of urine
• Abnormal urinary elimination patterns
• Assisting clients with urinary elimination
Unit 9: Oxygenation                               	           (2) hrs.
•   Overview of anatomical & physiological of breathing
•   Assessing oxygenation
•   Oxygen therapy
•   Alternation in respiratory function.
Unit 10: Death & Dying                              	      (2) hrs.
•   Terminal illness & care
•   Stage of dying
•   Promoting Acceptance
•   Grieving

The Laboratory Content
Unit 1: Skills of Physical Assessment:                   	       (4) hrs.
•   Performing a physical assessment.
•   Assessing Skin, hair, nails, skull & face
•   Assessing hearing, sinuses, mouth & oral pharynx.
•   Assessing thorax & lung & heart.
•   Assessing abdominal, Breast axilla.
Unit 2: Skills of Preoperative Nursing Care:             	       (8) hrs.
•   Teaching moving, leg exercises, deep breathing & coughing.
•   Managing gastrointestinal suction.
•   Cleaning a suture wound & applying a sterile dressing.
Unit 3: Skills of Rest & Sleep                           	         (8) hrs.
•    Making an unoccupied bed.
•    Making an occupied bed.
•    Giving back Massage.
Unit 4: Skills of Fluid & Chemical Balance                             (4) hrs.
•	Recording intake & output.
•	Inserting a Nasogastric tube.
•	Removing & Nasogastric tube.
•	Administering a tub feeding.
Unit 5: Skills of Bowel Elimination                                       (2) hrs.
•   Inserting rectal tube.
•   Inserting rectal suppository.
•   Administering a cleaning Enema.
•   Irrigating a colostomy.
Unit 6: Skills of Urinary Elimination                                       (2) hrs.
•   Placing & removing a bedpan.
•   Appling a condom catheter.
•   Inserting Foley catheter in a female.
•   Inserting Foley catheter in a male.
•   Irrigating a Foley catheter.
Unit 7: Skills of Oxygenation                                     (2) hrs.
•   Using a pulse oximeter.
•   Administering oxygen.
•   Maintaining a water- seal chest tube drainage system.

The Clinical Content

• Performing physical assessment for at least (2) patients.		(6) Hrs.
• Applying preoperative nursing care in the surgical wards.		(12) Hrs.
• Applying intra operative nursing care in the operation room.		(12) Hrs.           
• Applying post operative nursing care in the recovery room and surgical wards. 
(12) Hrs.
• Applying bed making:							(12) hrs.
- Occupied bed.
- Empty bed.
- Surgical bed.
• Performing intake and output fluid procedure in the wards:		(12) hrs.
- Inserting IV infusion.
- Inserting and removing naso gastric tube.
- Observing and recording

• Performing Foley catheterization (male & female).			(6) Hrs.
• Performing oxygenation procedure.					(6) Hrs.
- Using a pulse ox meter.
- Administering oxygen.
• Performing daily nursing care according to the nursing process.		(18) Hrs.                                       
Learning Resources:-
Theory:   Black board, Overhead, Posters, handout, Films , and CDs. 
Lab:      Nursing Laboratory sites at the Nursing College. 
Clinical:  In the teaching hospitals.
Teaching /Learning strategies: -
Lecture, Small Groups, Role Playing Demonstration, self-training, and clinical training,
Case Based Learning.

Students’ evaluation:
1st Theoretical exam		10%
2nd Theoretical exam.		10%
1st Lab. exam		10%
2nd Lab. exam.		10%
1st Practical exam		10%
2nd Practical exam		10%
Final Theoretical exam.		20%
Final Lab. exam.				10%
Final Practical exam.				1 0%
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       Total		100%
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•	Timby B., Fundamental Nursing Skill & Concepts. Philadelphia, Lippincott Williams, Wilkins, 2005.
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•	Articles related to the different topics from nursing Journals.