Health and human needs are inextricably interrelated. Humans need a number of essentials to survive. The assertion that all individuals irrespective or age, sex, race or creed have needs that they strive to satisfy is therefore is no exaggeration. The Cambridge International Dictionary of English defined ‘Needs’ as things one must have or things required to live a satisfactory life i.e. things essential to life and quality living. As a corollary, illness or risk of illness occurs when…
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General overview of lecture: This course covers the basic concepts in nutrition, classification of food based on nutrient, functions of nutrients, the gastrointestinal tract, digestion, absorption and metabolism of nutrients, energy balance, types of food found in our locality, factors that influence our choice of food, the concept of adequate diet, food security, and nutritional need across the developmental milestones. It will focus also on the role of nutrition in the prevention, management, and care of various disease as well…
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General overview of lecture: This course covers the basic concepts in nutrition, classification of food based on nutrient, functions of nutrients, the gastrointestinal tract, digestion, absorption and metabolism of nutrients, energy balance, types of food found in our locality, factors that influence our choice of food, the concept of adequate diet, food security, and nutritional need across the developmental milestones. It will focus also on the role of nutrition in the prevention, management, and care of various disease as well…
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General overview of lecture: This course has two aspects: theoretical part and practical part: the theory aspect introduces the student to primary health care (PHC) as the chosen health care system to providing healthcare for all irrespective of social status, age, creed, religion, race, gender etc. the main focus will be to expose the student to the skills, and knowledge needed to work collaboratively with other health care workers in the community in order to assist individuals, families, and communities…
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General overview of lecture: this course discusses the principles and issues of ethics governing the patient-nurse relationship; nurse-other members of the health team; ethical issues in nursing research; psychiatric care; examination and care of women; and children including family planning, sex change, dying and death, abortion, euthanasia etc. Other areas to be covered include professional negligence/misconduct, legal duties and liabilities of the nurses; and inform consent.

General overview of lecture: This course is in two aspects: theory and practice. The first aspect
introduces the students to the specialization of medical-surgical nursing by building on the
knowledge gained from the foundation of nursing science. As an introductory course, it
introduces the students to terminologies of medical-surgical nursing, basic concepts, such as
adaptation, holistic approach to nursing care, homeostasis, immunology and psycho-physiologic
response to illness and nursing intervention, transcultural nursing, evidenced based nursing and
implication for nursing practice;…
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General overview of lecture: This course is practical oriented and its intended to develop the student’s
psychomotor skills. This course covers all the various practical aspects of Nursing, including Admissions and
discharge, vital signs, patients nutrion etc.