This course offers a fourth year students the opportunity to be able to develop expertise and to implement problem solving and management principles in the nursing management of selected groups from the health-illness continuum and to practice nursing independently in three levels of prevention; primary, secondary, and tertiary at different clinical setting (hospital and community health centers). Students will apply theoretical knowledge to clinical settings with emphasis on leadership role, management and changing agent role, and taking full responsibility under the supervision of clinical instructors and nurse in charge of clinical setting as preceptors. The course also provide practice essential to the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of clients in different clinical setting as well as to apply nursing skills related to health promotion, health maintenance, health restoration and disease prevention and treatment among the target aggregates. This training will offer students the opportunity to take full responsibility as a charge nurse before graduation.
This course aims at providing clinical training opportunity for the fourth year nursing students to reinforce and integrate clinical skills and knowledge acquired during their study. The student will provide nursing care under the supervision of preceptors in the clinical areas of their choice with the guidance and indirect supervision of faculty members.
Intended learning Outcomes and Competences:
Aim of this Course
The course aims at preparing students to their professional clinical nursing role after graduation. It is designed to serve as a comprehensive clinical practice to enhance the students’ attainment of the program learning outcomes. Therefore the course’s intended outcomes are those for the whole program of BSc. degree in nursing which are as follow:
By the end of this course the students will be able to:
A.1. Identify the essential basic knowledge and understanding related to key concepts of the disciplines that underpin the education and training of nursing and all health care professionals, and detailed knowledge of some of these. The latter would include a broad understanding of:
A.2. Identify the essential knowledge base in carrying out nursing activities directed at preventing illness and promoting, maintaining, and restoring an optimal level of wellness.
By the end of this course the students will be able to:
B1.1.Demonistrate the professional autonomy and accountability
B.2. Apply professional relationships
B.3. Compare between personal and professional skills
B.4.Apply leadership and sound professional practice
By the end of this course the students will be able to:
C.1. Build leadership and managerial skills in Clinical practice
C.2. Use Information gathering
C.3. Practice problem solving and resolution (decision making)
C.4. Utilize Communication skills
C.5. Numeric professional clinical skills
C.6. Apply Information technology
By the end of this course the students will be able to:
D.1. Provide comprehensive patient care utilizing nursing process as a frame work according to the hospital criteria.
D.2. Perform all nursing procedures learned during his/her previous courses.
D.3. Demonstrate evidence of critical thinking in clinical decisions while providing direct patient care.
D.4. Apply theoretical knowledge in clinical practice.
D.5. Provide nursing care within ethical and legal principles.
D.6. Demonstrate ability to take safe and independent decisions in patient care.
D.7. Collaborate effectively with health team members.
D.8. Identify need for improvement based on his/her reflection of own clinical practice.
D.9. Participate actively in all roles of the staff nurses in the clinical setting.
D.10. Demonstrate effective oral and written communication skills as a professional nurse.
D.11. Team work
D.12. Independent learning
D.13. Follow measures of infections control.
D.14. prepare him\her for marketing themselves in practice profession
All books (latest edition) and articles required from the different nursing courses.
Appleton and Lang: Connecticut.
10. Web sources (Website)
11. Other computer-based sources
12. Interactive Student Response Technology
13. Nursing Journals:
Activity | Percent (%) |
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Preceptors and supervising faculty evaluation | 40% |
Chang plan to take place at the clinical area -Written by hand case study and analysis on the clinical setting | 30% |
Final Verbal\Oral case study exam by committee of faculty and external examiners-Clinical procedure exam | 30% |