HISTORY AND DEFINITION OF NURSING :  Historical perspective of Nursing  Beginning of civilization (5000 B.C to ! AD  In the early Christian era (1- 500Ad)  Nursing in the middle age (500-1500)  Nursing and medicine in later Middle ages and the modern era  development of nursing from 1860 till today  Italian nursing development  definition of nursing  Nursing process and Critical thinking II SAFETY IN HEALTH CARE FACILITIES  Infection control/ universal precaution  Nursing process application  Normal body defense  Chain of infection  Basic medical asepsis  Hand washing  Standard precaution  Surgical asepsis  Isolation III ADMISSION, TRANSFER, AND DISCHARGE OF PATIENTS  Admission  Transfer  Discharge IV VITAL SIGNS  Definition  Temperature  Pulse  Respiration  Blood pressure V SPECIMEN COLLECTION  General consideration for specimen collection  Collecting stool specimen  Collecting urine specimen  Collecting sputum  Collecting blood specimen VI BED MAKING  Bed making  Closed bed  Occupied bed  Post-operative bed  Performing oral care VII PERSONAL HYGIENE AND SKIN CARE.  Mouth care  Bathing  Bed bath  Therapeutic bath  Back care  Giving and receiving bedpan and urinals  Perineal care  Hair cares  Pediculosis treatment VIII SPECIMEN COLLECTION  General consideration for specimen collection  Collecting stool specimen  Collecting urine specimen  Collecting sputum  Collecting blood specimen IX BODY MECHANICS AND MOBILITY  Body mechanics  Basic principles of body mechanics  Turning the patient to a side lying position  Joint mobility and range of motion.  Body positioning X NUTRITION AND METABOLISM  nutrition and metabolism  fluid and electrolyte balance  acidi d base balance  nutrition  gastrostomy/jejunostomy feeding  inserting a gastric tube  nasogastric feeding  total parentral nutrition XI MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION  Definition of pharmacology  Drug metabolism  Factors affecting drug metabolism  Drug administration  Application of nursing process  Oral drug administration  Suppository  Subcutaneous injection  Intramuscular injection  Intravenous injection  Intravenous therapy  Blood transfusion  Cut down  Administration of vaginal medications  Administration of ophthalmic  medication  Administration of otic medications  inhalation  Definition of inhalation  Oxygen administration  Giving oxygen by mask  Giving oxygen by nasal catheter  Giving oxygen by tent  Steam inhalation XII WOUND CARES  Definition  Wound healing process  Dressing a clean wound  Dressing of septic wound  Dressing with a drainage tube  Wound irrigation  Suturing  Removal of stitch  Clip application and removal XIII ELIMINATION OF GASTRO INTESTINAL AND URINARY TRACT  outputs  gastric lavage  gastric aspiration  enema  cleansing enema  retention enema  rectal washout  passing flatus tube  urinary catheterization  catheterization using straight catheter  inserting indwelling catheter XIV ALTERNATIVE MEDICINES IMPACT ON MODERN SOCIETY AND NURSING APPREHENSION  Acupressure  Acupuncture  Ayurvedic Medicine (in detail at least one hour )  Reflexology  Homeopathy  Chiropractic

Fundamentals of Nursing / Edition 8 by Carol Taylor PhD, MSN, RN, Carol Lillis MSN, RN, Pamela Lynn MSN, RN Or any other valid text book of fundamentals of Nursing

Course contents - The concept of ethics - The concept of professional ethics - The concept of nursing’s professional dignity - Theoretical models of nursing’s professional dignity - Empirical research on nursing’s professional dignity - Organizational models that foster nursing’s professional dignity - Analysis of the intrinsic values characterizing the health professions

Textbooks - Tschudin V. (1999), Nurses matter: reclaiming our professional identity, Macmillan Press Ltd, Houndmills-Basingstoke, UK. - Stievano A., Bellass S., Olsen D., Rocco G., Sabatino L., Johnson M. (2016). Professional respect as experienced by hospital and community nurses. Nursing Ethics; pii: 0969733016664972 - Sabatino L., Kangasniemi M., Rocco G., Alvaro R., Stievano A. (2014). Nurses’ perceptions of professional dignity in internal medicine and surgery departments in hospital settings. Nursing Ethics; 21(3): 335–346. - Sabatino L, Stievano A, Kallio H, Pietilä AM, Rocco G, Kangasniemi M. (2014). The dignity of the nursing profession: a meta-synthesis of qualitative research. Nursing Ethics; 21(6): 659-672.

*Nursing perspective *Domain of nursing knowledge *Definition of nursing *Elements of a theory *Type of theories: grand theories, middle range theories, situation specific theories *Florence Nightingale’s legacy of caring and its applications *Early conceptualizations about Nursing, Virginia Henderson *Nurse-patient relationship theory, Hildegard Peplau *Dorothea Orem’s self-care deficit *Middle range and situation specific theories and application in nursing practice and research *Middle range theory of self-care of chronic illness *Situation specific theory of heart failure self-care

Parker M. E. (2015). Nursing theories and nursing practice (4th Ed.). Philadelphia: F.A. Davis Company. Journal articles suggested - Henderson V. (1964). The nature of nursing. The American Journal of Nursing; 64(8): 62-68. - Riegel B., Dickson V.V. (2008). A situation-specific theory of heart failure self-care. Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing; 23(3):190-6. - Riegel B., Jaarsma T. & Strömberg A. (2012). A Middle-Range Theory of Self-Care of Chronic Illness. Advances in Nursing Science; (35)3: 194-204.