Curriculum and Courses

This course is a general introduction to Oral Communication Skills.

The course highlights the patterns and lexis involved in General English and English for Academic Purposes during communication interactions. Students learn to recognize and use linguistic signaling and patterns that help listeners understand long listening passages. Students learn to discern the main idea from details and separate fact from opinion. Students are also introduced to essential note-taking skills.

The focus is on group work, although students will be introduced to necessary presentation skills. The early general English curriculum highlights the grammar patterns and lexis involved in basic conversation. In group work, students learn to ask questions, present their own opinions, and justify them. Assessment is in the form of one to one for individual speaking tasks.

This course is a general introduction to grammar structures and their meaning and function. Highlights include being able to recognize and understand the meaning of targeted grammatical structures in written and spoken form.

This course is a general introduction to reading and vocabulary skills. As such academic reading expectations are minimized, and general reading and comprehension skills are emphasized to achieve the skills necessary for a more advanced study. Highlights include grammar patterns and lexis involved in General English. Note-taking skills will accompany early comprehension.

This course renders a comprehensive study of the various dimensions of the Islamic religion. From the social science viewpoint, students are provided an in-depth view of the religion to refine their skills from the perspective of Islam. The course provides the student with a broad foundation in the theories of Muslim thoughts and practices covering such topics as Seerah, Hadith literature, Islamic policy, and principles, the tenets of faith, law, etc.

The course will enable students to understand and apply the fundamental

Principles and concepts of Computer Science, including abstraction, decomposition, logic, algorithms, and data representation. Throughout the course, the student will develop computational thinking skills built on a sound base of conceptual learning and understanding as well have the capability to utilize the health information system for reporting and recording patient data.

This course offers an overview of the Saudi Arabia health system and introduction to collaborative practice in care delivery. An understanding of the evolution, components, and operations of the health system including significant health issues and institutions, the workforce, and the financial, technological, and policy influences serves as a foundation for understanding the context and value of the collaborative practice. Students then are introduced to the process of providing person-centered care within inter-professional collaborative teams. Students develop a beginning understanding of the nurses’ role and responsibilities, including ways to communicate and practice within healthcare teams for the delivery of safe, quality, person-centered care.

This course enables the student to develop a clear understanding of concepts related to various body systems and structural organization, then how they function to support life. Particular emphasis placed on the interrelationship between different organs and body systems. To correlate anatomical facts with their clinical applications. To acquire an appropriate background and recognize the standard structure and function of the body and each of its major systems. Clinical examples used to stimulate critical thinking. Anatomy and Physiology I is the first of two courses in a sequence designed to provide a knowledge base that is essential to Pre-Nursing students. Anatomy is the science of the structure of the human body. Physiology is the science of the functions of the different body systems. Nursing students should understand the basic anatomy and physiology of the human body and their clinical significance. This understanding is necessary for further study of pathophysiology and clinical sciences such as medical-surgical nursing.

The course is divided into three parts: General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, and Biochemistry. It provides the students with an in-depth knowledge of the essential concepts such as atomic structures, electronic configuration, chemical bonding, molecular geometry, and polarity. The students will be able to critically evaluate the chemical data utilizing various chemical problems and questions related to chemical composition, Stoichiometry, Chemical equilibrium, pH, Ka and Kb, Buffer Solutions, Acids and bases, oxidation numbers, states of matter, writing the formula and balancing chemical equations. The course designed to introduce students to the chemical structures of cellular macromolecules (e.g., carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids & proteins). Principles of bioenergetics explained. Mechanism of actions of enzymes, their kinetics and then metabolism of carbohydrates, fats and nitrogen-containing compounds (e.g., amino acids proteins, nucleic acids, and their regulatory mechanisms). The course will include digestion, absorption, transport, and transformations of carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, vitamins, water, and minerals. It will also cover related biochemical techniques. Six laboratory sessions are conducted to illustrate the aspects of the theoretical course and to teach students the essential practical skills.

This course aims to develop and embed the necessary communication and soft skills for future employment through integrated, meaningful, ongoing activities. It is also designed to encourage and cultivate learner autonomy, providing opportunities for the independence of research, ideas, and direction.

It is designed to support the simultaneous acquisition of language and skills while bridging the skills gap between general English and the English used in the workplace.

Students learn to recognize and use linguistic signaling and patterns that help listeners understand long listening passages. Students learn to discern the main idea from details and separate fact from opinion.

The focus is on group work. Assessment is in the form of one to one for individual speaking tasks.

This course is designed to enable students to demonstrate an understanding of more complex grammatical structures in conversations and discussions. Highlights include being able to demonstrate consistent and appropriate language use in extended conversations and discussions.

This course is designed to enhance the students’ reading and vocabulary skills. As such academic reading expectations are minimized, and general reading and comprehension skills are emphasized to achieve the skills necessary for a more advanced study. Highlights include grammar patterns and lexis involved in General English. Note taking skills will accompany early comprehension.

This course provides the conceptual and quantitative tools of commonly used descriptive and inferential statistical procedures to enable students to understand and interpret descriptive and inferential statistical procedures and methods. The student will gain a thorough understanding of basic analysis methods, elementary concepts, statistical models and applications of probability, commonly used sampling distributions, parametric and nonparametric one and two sample tests, confidence intervals, applications of the analysis of two-way contingency table data, and simple analysis of variance. Students are taught to conduct the relevant analysis using current software such as the Statistical Analysis System (SPSS). The Evidence-Based Health Practice (EBHP) part of the course will provide the basics of integration of best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values.

This course is designed to introduce nursing students to the foundations of professional nursing practice. Basic concepts of nursing as a caring profession, ethical and legal aspects of nursing care; communication skills, patient education, health promotion and disease prevention and the nursing process as a method for clinical judgment applied to the delivery of nursing care are integrated throughout the course. Students apply nursing concepts to practice scenarios through interactive classroom sessions and simulated experiences in the nursing lab.

This course is designed to introduce the student to foundational aspects of the teaching-learning process concerning health education. Learning theories are examined as an essential element to provide effective teaching practices. The course is intended to prepare students to assume an active role as health educators, being an integral part of the inter-professional health care team. The course examines the goals, principles, approaches, and strategies to health education directed to individuals and groups, in both wellness and illness health care settings. Students are expected to utilize teaching skills, select and implement appropriate teaching strategies, apply effective educational technologies and communication skills, and evaluate outcomes of health education activities.

This course will introduce communication concepts and frameworks relevant to health care and prepare students for engaging in therapeutic communication in a variety of clinical and professional situations. Students will demonstrate a beginning capacity to communicate effectively with individuals, families, and colleagues within the context of health care environments. Students will demonstrate an understanding of different levels, types of professional communication, structure of the client-nurse relationship, conflict resolution between nurse and patient, and professional, cultural, legal, and ethical standards guiding professional relationships in nursing. The course will help students to identify the strategies used to communicate with patients with communication deficits. Particular emphasis is placed on communicating with clients from different age groups, patients in stressful situations, crises, and those experiencing communication difficulties.

Human Anatomy and Physiology II will provide new innovative physiological knowledge that is accompanied by practical demonstrations. The course enables the student to develop clear concepts of various body systems and structural organization and how they function to support life. Particular emphasis placed on the interrelationship between different organs and body systems. To correlate anatomical facts with their clinical applications. To acquire an appropriate background and recognize the normal structure and function of the body and each of its major systems. Clinical examples used to stimulate critical thinking. Anatomy and Physiology II is the second of two courses in a sequence designed to provide a knowledge base that is essential to Pre-Nursing students.

In this course, students are provided an in-depth view of the Islamic religion refine their skills from the perspective of Islam. The course gives the student a broad understanding of Muslim thought and practices covering such topics as Seerah, Hadith literature, Islamic policy, and principles, the tenets of faith and law of Islam. This course will build on the previous Islamic study course, including a focus on the culture and the sociology of Islam.  The course will focus on shared beliefs, attitudes, values, and behavioral patterns of a group or organization; it will emphasize the socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, and characteristics of a community or a population from the Islamic perspective.

The College of nursing, will establish different elective courses for students to select the preferred course that suits their learning skills and future nursing career interests. The following courses of [Life Style Modification in Chronic Illness; Palliative Care ; Health Economics ; Society and Health; Family Health and Child protection; Alternative and Complementary Medicine; The Poet and the Poem (Text) ; Applied Nursing Research and Cultural Diversity in Health and Illness] will be offered according to student preference. The college will allocate faculty members to teach the selected courses, according to the faculty member’s area of expertise.

This course builds on nursing concepts developed in NURS 201, NURS 203, and NURS 213 and incorporates health assessment skills developed concurrently in NURS 224. The course integrates fundamental concepts of safe nursing care delivery, assessment of physical and psychosocial factors, and related psychomotor skills and standards of practice. Topics include skills to promote activities of daily living, safety and transporting, asepsis and sterile technique, medication administration, fluid and electrolytes, oxygenation, and elimination. Concepts are introduced in the classroom, and related skills practice is provided in the nursing skills laboratory and during simulated patient care experiences.

This course is a general survey of microbiology that will introduce students to the basic biology of bacteria and viruses, with a concentration on bacteria. The course describes the disease-causing microorganisms (bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites) with emphasis on morphology, immunity, pathogenicity, mode of microbial infections, and the diagnosis and control methods. Organisms studied include selected bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites of medical importance. The course will provide students with lab practice of basic microbiological techniques, including sampling, the importance of specimen transportation, staining, microscopy, and discuss methods of isolation; culture and identification of organisms.

The pathophysiology course is an undergraduate course designed to provide students with an in-depth study of the abnormal physiology associated with a disease, the pathologic processes (pathogenesis) of disease and how the disease affects the human organism. The focus of this course is on rehabilitation care of clients across the life span with acute or chronic dysfunctional health patterns involving respiratory, cardiac, renal, nervous, and musculoskeletal impairments. It contributes to the integration of health promotion and disease prevention with risk factors.

This course is designed to provide students the opportunity to learn and practice history taking, physical examination skills from head to toe and psychosocial assessment with individuals of all ages, with emphasis on the adult. The focus is on how to collect this information and how to distinguish between normal and abnormal findings. The nursing process, as a method for clinical judgment, is integrated throughout the course. Students apply health assessment skills through practice scenarios sessions and simulated experiences in the nursing lab.

The course is designed to provide students with the knowledge and principles of the Epidemiology of Health, including the health-disease continuum, the epidemiology of communicable and non-communicable diseases, the occurrence of disease morbidity and mortality and the natural history of the disease. The course will provide knowledge of descriptive epidemiology, as well as the formulation and testing of hypotheses. Within this context, the main emphasis is on the varied study designs, from observational to experimental, epidemiological research design. The course will help the student to focus on utilizing critical thinking in appraising epidemiological research in order to integrate theory into practice.

This course is designed to explore pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, drug actions and interactions, environmental factors, and safety precautions during medication administration. Students are introduced to the major drug groups that affect the different bodily systems. Special considerations will be given to the effects of drugs on different age groups and the nurse’s responsibilities in drug therapy calculation and administration. Emphasis will be on principles of clinical pharmacology applied to health care delivery. The course includes a two-hour lab per week to help nursing students to understand the role of the nurse in the preparation, management, and administration of medications for different units within the hospital clinical setting. Throughout this course, students will be empowered to become self-directed learners, using critical thinking and decision making to use the most appropriate means of accessing information about use, contraindications, dosages, and routes of administration for drug therapy.

This course is designed to provide nursing students with the knowledge of the interrelationships among nutrition, food, and the environment as their impact on health. The course introduces the student to the role of the nurse in promoting and supporting nutritional health. Emphasis is on the role nutrition plays in health promotion/prevention of illness, recovery from acute illness and management of chronic illness. Students learn to access evidence to support healthy nutritional choices that reduce risk factors for disease and illness across the lifespan. Students explore how culture, socio-economic status, and nutritional trends can influence the nutritional health of the client. Throughout the course, students will be empowered to be self-directed learners, using critical and decision making to integrate nutritional knowledge and theory into practice.

The course introduces students to advanced knowledge and nursing skills for adult patients with acute and chronic illnesses experienced in the context of bio-psychosocial alterations and the associated responses to illness in a variety of health care settings.  Students apply critical thinking; problem-solving and decision-making strategies when caring for adults with an acute health problem. Students are in acute care clinical over two days. Each day involves nine contact hours of focused learning activities. By delivering clinical nursing care and experiencing hands-on clinical practice, students develop competencies, working with inter-professional teams, to apply the nursing process with the adult patient and their families, based on evidence and decision-making skills.  Students will deal with adults patients experiencing for example; Upper Respiratory Tract Disorders, Chest & Lower Respiratory Tract Disorders (COPD and Asthma), Chest & Lower Respiratory Tract Disorders (TB, Pneumonia), Coronary Vascular Disorders (Atherosclerosis, Angina &AMI), valvular disorder, (Heart Failure and Hypertension), Metabolic disorder and digestive system.

This course is designed to provide students with basic concepts of patient safety, principals of quality, their measures, improvement, evaluation of quality; the basic sciences of nursing informatics that identifies, gathers, processes, and manages patient information. The course will emphasize the components of quality measures and their construction and evaluation in the current healthcare delivery system environment. The students will review and create quality measures within the field of nursing practice and develop a quality improvement project to improve the process of nursing practice and patient outcome. The course is designed to have two hours lab to help nursing students to categorize the strength and weaknesses and develop alternative solutions for the benefits of quality and patient safety. Throughout this course, students will be empowered to become self-directed learners; using critical thinking and decision-making to use the most appropriate solution for quality improvement.

This course is designed to introduce students to human growth and development, the course explores the different stages of human life- Prenatal, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood- and the biological, psychological and social changes occurring in individuals during them. Topics include theories of development; the development of birth and the neonate; cognitive and brain development, early experience, attachment, motor and language development, social, sex role and moral development, aging, and death. Various modes of inquiry, including the nursing process, problem-solving models, critical thinking, and decision-making tools, will be emphasized to apply theory into practice.

This course is built on the knowledge and skills developed in NURS 315, NURS 323, NURS 314 and NURS 320 and expands concepts to include more complex bio-psychosocial alterations and associated responses to illness in acute care settings. Students will apply critical thinking, decision making and problem-solving strategies to provide care to adults with acute and complex health problems, carry out accurate assessments and provide nursing care with advanced knowledge and efficacious clinical application of evidence to complex patient care situations. Students are in acute care clinical over two days; each day involves nine contact hours of focused learning activities.   By delivering clinical nursing care and experiencing hands-on clinical practice, students develop competencies, working with inter-professional teams, to apply the nursing process with adult patients and their families, based on evidence and complex decision-making skills.

This This course is designed to provide nursing students with the fundamentals and principles of the research process and their application in nursing. The importance of searching relevant literature, understanding research methods, reviewing research, understanding, and evaluating research findings related to the practice of nursing will be emphasized. Throughout the course, students will be empowered to be self-directed learners, using critical and decision making to become familiar with the statistical test used in nursing research and evidence-based practice technique that will help them to apply theory into practice.

This course is designed to introduce nursing students to advanced knowledge about concepts of psychiatric-mental health nursing across the life-span continuum and to provide students with an understanding of mental health process and evidenced-based nursing care delivery. Throughout clinical exposure, students will utilize therapeutic communication skills, phases of the therapeutic nurse-patient relationship, and plan nursing care for psychiatric patients with acute and chronic mental health problems. Clinical experiences are designed to help students integrate theory and research findings to identify common mental health challenges and to be part of an inter-professional team and apply ethical, legal and cultural aspects of mental health nursing practice in the Saudi population.

This course is designed to introduce nursing students to advanced knowledge about concepts of psychiatric-mental health nursing across the life span continuum and to provide students with an understanding of the mental health process and evidenced-based nursing care delivery. Throughout clinical exposure, students will utilize therapeutic communication skills, phases of the therapeutic nurse-patient relationship, and plan nursing care for psychiatric patients with acute and chronic mental health problems. Clinical experiences are designed to help students integrate theory and research findings to identify common mental health challenges, be part of an inter-professional team and apply ethical, legal and cultural aspects of mental health nursing practice in the Saudi population.

This course is designed to introduce nursing students to advanced knowledge about children, as patients, who have unique healthcare needs that require specialized knowledge and skills to prevent harm and provide evidenced-based nursing care delivery. Throughout clinical exposure, students will utilize therapeutic communication skills to provide a safe and supportive environment for young patients and their families. Clinical experiences are designed to help students integrate theory and research findings to provide holistic care for children, adolescents, and their families, be part of an inter-professional health care team and apply principles of, ethics, patients’ rights, and safety, with an emphasis on cultural aspects of care.

The course is designed to introduce nursing students to advanced knowledge about the specialized health care needs of the childbearing family, including health responses of the family unit to promote and maintain the health of mother and child. Throughout the clinical exposure, students will use therapeutic communication skills to assess the pregnant woman during the prenatal, natal and postnatal period focusing on both normal and abnormal progress, as well as providing nursing care to women and newborns. Clinical experiences are designed to help the student integrate theory and research findings to provide holistic care for mothers, neonates, and their families, be part of an inter-professional health care team and apply principles of, ethics, patients’ rights, and safety with an emphasis on cultural aspects of care.

The critical care course is designed to provide students with specialist knowledge and skills to appropriately and effectively manage patients in the critical care environment under supervision. The course will provide an overview of mechanical ventilation, ventricular assisted devices (VAD) and advanced hemodynamic monitoring, and the care of patients with life-threatening conditions. Clinical experiences are designed to help students integrate theory, and research findings to provide care of critical patients in critical care units, be part of an inter-professional team and apply ethical, legal and cultural aspects of nursing care in the Saudi population.

This course is designed to provide students with the theoretical knowledge to provide community health nursing within Saudi society. Students will implement health promotion and disease prevention activities, develop care plans to restore health, and maintain wellness of the individual, family, and community Working within the context of inter-professional team, students will put theory into practice in a variety of selected placements including primary health care centers, schools, factories, and other community-based settings. Emphasis will be placed on the application of principles of advocacy, empowerment, ethics, human rights, in the provision of health education in community settings.

This course is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills to manage care delivery in health care settings and to apply for leadership roles within the structure of a health care organization. Leadership activities are grounded in evidence-based leadership principles. Emphasis is given to management and leadership theories and functions, strategic & operational planning, organizational communication, intra- and inter-professional communication, decision-making, teamwork skills, collaboration, conflict resolution, delegation, and supervision. The legal authority for nursing practice, the impact of legislative processes, and ethical issues in management, will be addressed.

The College of nursing, will establish different elective courses for students to select the preferred course that suits her learning skills and future nursing career interests. The following courses [Life Style Modification in Chronic Illness; Palliative Care; Health Economics; Society and Health; Family Health and Child protection; Alternative and Complementary Medicine; The Poet and the Poem (Text); Applied Nursing Research and Cultural Diversity in Health and Illness] will be offered according to student preference. The college will allocate faculty members to teach the selected courses, according to the faculty member’s area of expertise.