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1. Course Name: First Aid

Course Code: 218 FAI 2
Credit Hours: 2 hours

Course Objectives:

  • To familiarize students with various terms related to first aid.

  • To establish professional communication between instructor and students using modern technology for presentations during lectures, and to implement all first aid skills efficiently in life-threatening situations.

Course Content:

  • Introduction to first aid and its basics

  • Explanation of first aid supplies and tools

  • Wounds: definition and types

  • Emergency wound care

  • Dislocations and fractures: definitions, types, and diagnosis

  • Splints: main locations on the body

  • Adult cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR): definition and indications

  • Pediatric CPR: definition and indications

  • Neonatal and infant CPR: definition and indications

  • Procedures for performing CPR on children and infants

  • Choking: emergency care for choking in children and infants

  • Medical emergencies: allergies and poisoning

  • Providing emergency care

  • Bleeding: care for hemorrhage

Key References:

  • Emergency and Trauma Care for Nurses and Paramedics, 3rd Edition, 2019, Kate Curtis et al.

  • The Saudi Red Crescent Authority

  • https://www.srca.org.sa/en/

2. Course Name: Health Assessment

Course Code: 220 NUR 2
Credit Hours: 2 hours

Course Objectives:

  • To acquire essential knowledge and skills for taking medical history and performing basic physical assessments for different body systems, differentiating normal from abnormal findings, identifying causes of deviations, and analyzing evaluation results accurately and comprehensively.

Course Content:

  • Medical history

  • Skin and its appendages

  • Wounds: definition and types

  • Emergency wound care

  • Head and neck

  • Breast and axilla

  • Female genitourinary system

  • Respiratory system

  • Gastrointestinal system

  • Cardiovascular system

  • Musculoskeletal system

  • Nervous system

  • Choking: emergency care for choking in children and infants

  • Medical emergencies: allergies and poisoning

  • Providing emergency care

Key References:

  • Nursing Health Assessment: The Foundation of Clinical Practice (2020), 3rd Ed, Patricia M. Dillon, PhD, RN

  • Berman, A., Snyder, S., & Frandsen, G. (2021), Kozier & Erb's Fundamentals of Nursing: Concepts, Process, & Practice, 11th Edition

3. Course Name: Fundamentals of Nursing

Course Code: 211 NUR 8
Credit Hours: 8 hours

Course Objectives:

  • To provide students with a solid foundation of essential skills to build their technical and personal experience. The nursing process serves as the main framework for care and applying the acquired knowledge.

  • To equip students with communication and interpersonal skills to become effective members of collaborative healthcare teams, ensuring effective communication during clinical procedures, medication dosage calculations, and other essential skills.

Course Content:

  • Theoretical and practical content

  • Fundamental concepts and theories of nursing arts and sciences

  • Basic nursing care procedures for patient care

  • Application of nursing skills with accuracy and safety through demonstrations and simulation labs

  • Legal and ethical roles of professional nurses

  • Communication and interpersonal relationships in clinical settings

Key References:

  • Kozier & Erb's Fundamentals of Nursing: Concepts, Process and Practice, 11th edition (2022)

  • Perry, A.G., Potter, P.A., Ostendorf, W., LaPlante, N. (2021), Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques, 10th Edition

4. Course Name: Medical-Surgical Nursing 1

Course Code: 316 NUR 10
Credit Hours: 10 hours

Course Objectives:

  1. Discuss principles, assessment techniques, and procedures for preoperative and postoperative patient care and tools used in surgeries.

  2. Understand the nurse’s role in adult patient care in hospital settings.

  3. Review anatomy and physiology of related systems.

  4. Describe causes, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, and diagnostic measures for patients with cardiovascular, hematologic, respiratory, gastrointestinal, endocrine disorders, and burns.

  5. Discuss nursing care for patients with these disorders.

  6. Know the medications used to treat various disorders.

  7. Apply nursing care for patients with medical and surgical disorders.

  8. Provide consultations and patient/family education.

  9. Implement assessment techniques for patients with various disorders.

  10. Know treatments used for various disorders.

  11. Participate in organizing and preparing the operating room for different surgeries.

Course Content:

  • Introduction to medical-surgical nursing

  • Nurse’s role and responsibilities in adult patient care in surgical, medical, outpatient, inpatient, and emergency settings

  • Care of surgical patients: preoperative nursing

  • Preoperative phase: physical and psychological care

  • Preoperative medications

  • Review anatomy and physiology of blood and cardiovascular system

  • Patient assessment: history and physical assessment of cardiovascular system

  • Causes, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and treatments of cardiovascular disorders

  • Blood transfusion: safety, procedures, adverse reactions, and documentation

  • Review anatomy and physiology of respiratory system

  • Medical emergencies: allergies and poisoning

  • Patient assessment: history and physical examination of respiratory system

  • Causes, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and treatments of respiratory disorders

  • Review anatomy and physiology of the endocrine system

  • Medical history taking, physical assessment, disorders, and burns

5. Course Name: Medical-Surgical Nursing 2

Course Code: 317 NUR 4
Credit Hours: 4 hours

Course Objectives:

  1. Perform clinical assessment of various body systems.

  2. Provide care for patients with neurological, urinary, musculoskeletal disorders, and tumors.

  3. Deliver nursing care for patients with medical and surgical conditions.

Course Content:

  • Assessment and nursing care for urinary system disorders

  • Neurological system and nursing care for eye, ear, nose, and throat disorders

  • Musculoskeletal system assessment and nursing management

  • Neurological function assessment and nursing care for neurological disorders

  • Care of cancer patients

  • Musculoskeletal and nervous system review

Key References:

  • Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, 14th Edition, 2018, Janice L. Hinkle et al.

  • Medical-Surgical Nursing: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems, 11th Edition, 2020, Sharon Lewis et al.

6. Course Name: Critical Care Nursing

Course Code: 319 NUR 4
Credit Hours: 4 hours

Course Objectives:

  • This course covers the assessment and care of critically ill patients, including those with respiratory, cardiac, gastrointestinal, hepatic, urinary, neurological, metabolic, and endocrine disorders.

Course Content:

  • Assessment of critically ill patients

  • Monitoring and management of circulation

  • Cardiac arrhythmias

  • Diabetes emergencies

  • Stroke and head injuries

  • Liver emergencies

  • Dialysis and kidney transplantation

Key References:

  • Critical Care Nursing Made Incredibly Easy, 3rd Edition, 2020, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins

  • Critical Care Nursing: A Holistic Approach, 11th Edition, 2018, Morton & Fontaine