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The Quality Assurance and Accreditation Programmed For Ministry of Higher Education of Libya APPENDIX D1: TEMPLATES FOR

COURSE SPECIFICATIONS

UNIVERSITY: OMAR AL MUKHTAR UNIVERSITY

FACULTY: NURSING

COURSE SPECIFICATIONS: Programme(s) on which the course is given major or minor element of programmers: Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)
Department offering the program: Department offering the course: Academic year level: Date of specification approval: College of Nursing Intensive and Emergency Nursing (IEN) 4th year second semester

A- Basic Information
Title: Credit Hours: Tutorial: Total: Nursing Specialization 4: Palliative and Rehabilitative Nursing 2 hours per week Code: Lecture: Practical: NURS 404ly 2 hours per week

B- Professional Information 1 Overall aims of course: This course is designed to explain the importance of Palliative and rehabilitative nursing to manage physiologic responses to terminally ill patients through the use of nursing process. 2 Intended learning outcomes of course (ILOs): After completion of this course, the student will be able to:
a - Knowledge and understanding: 1. Discuss the historical, legal, and sociocultural perspectives of 2. palliative and end-of-life care. 3. Dene palliative care. 4. Compare and contrast the settings where palliative care and endof-life care are provided. 5. Describe the principles and components of hospice care. 6. Describe the goals of rehabilitation. 7. Discuss the interdisciplinary approach to rehabilitation. b- Intellectual skills: 1. Identify barriers to improving care at the end of life. 2. Reflect on personal experience with and attitudes toward death and dying. 3. Describe nursing strategies appropriate for promoting self-care

through activities of daily living. 4. Describe nursing strategies appropriate for promoting mobility and ambulation and the use of assistive devices. 5. Describe risk factors and related nursing measures to prevent development of pressure ulcers. 6. Identify emotional reactions exhibited by patients with disabilities. c- Professional and practical skills: 1. Apply skills for communicating with terminally ill patients and their families. 2. Implement nursing measures to manage physiologic responses to terminal illness. 3. Support actively dying patients and their families 4. Incorporate bladder training and bowel training into the plan of care for patients with bladder and bowel problems. d- General and transferable skills: 1. Identify components of uncomplicated grief and mourning and implement nursing measures to support the patient and family. 2. Provide culturally and spiritually sensitive care to terminally ill patients and their families. 3. Describe the signicance of continuity of care from the health care facility to the home or extended care facility for patients who need rehabilitative assistance and services. 4. Use the nursing process as a framework for care of patients with selfcare decits, impaired physical mobility, impaired skin integrity, and altered patterns of elimination.

3- Course contents and time plan: Serial Topic No. I. End of Life Care 1 NURSING AND END-OF-LIFE CARE The Context for Death and Dying Technology and End-of-Life Care Sociocultural Context

Lecture 2

Tutorial / Practical

Total hours 2

A. SETTINGS FOR END-OF-LIFE CARE: PALLIATIVE CARE PROGRAMS AND HOSPICE Palliative Care Hospice Care

B. NURSING CARE OF THE TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT Psychosocial Issues Communication Providing Culturally Sensitive Care at the End of Life Goal Setting in Palliative Care at the End of Life Spiritual Care Hope Managing Physiologic Responses to Illness
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Palliative Sedation at the End of Life

C. NURSING CARE OF THE PATIENT WHO IS CLOSE TO DEATH Expected Physiologic Changes When the Patient Is Close to Death The Death Vigil After-Death Care Grief, Mourning, and Bereavement

D. COPING WITH DEATH AND DYING: PROFESSIONAL CAREGIVER ISSUES 4 II. PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF REHABILITATION A. RIGHT TO ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE AND HEALTH PROMOTION B. FOCUS OF REHABILITATION C. THE REHABILITATION TEAM D. AREAS OF SPECIALTY PRACTICE 5 E. ASSESSMENT OF FUNCTIONAL ABILITIES 3 2 2 2 2

Nursing Process: The Patient With Self-Care Decit in Activities of Daily Living

6 7

MIDTERM EXAMINATION

Nursing Process: The Patient With Impaired Physical Mobility

Nursing Process: The Patient With Impaired Skin Integrity

Nursing Process: The Patient With Altered Elimination Patterns

10

F. DISABILITY AND SEXUALITY ISSUES G. FATIGUE

11 12

F. HOME AND COMMUNITY-BASED CARE G. COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES H. CONTINUING CARE

2 2

2 2

13

III.

CANCER REHABILITATION

A. CARE OF THE PATIENT WITH ADVANCED CANCER Hospice 4 Teaching and learning methods: Serial No. 1 2 3 3 4 5 4 Teaching method Lectures Student's Assignment Classroom Discussion (Quizzes, Homework, Classroom activities, attendance) Used % 50 % 20 % 30 %

5- Student assessment methods: Serial Assessment method No. 1 Periodic exams. 2 Mid-term exam. 3 Practical exam. 4 Oral exam. 5 Activities 6 Others 7 Final exams. Total

% 30%

Assess. date

Notices

30% 40% 100%

Assessment schedule: No. 1st assess 2nd assess 3rd assess 4th assess 5th assess Assessment method Date

6- List of references:
Seri al No. 1 Reference title Course notes: 1-Lecture Notes on
Palliative and Rehabilitative Nursing Essential books (text books): 1- Brunner and Suddarths Textbook of Medical and Surgical Nursing

Publisher

Author
Efren P. Molina II

Country
Philippines

Suzanne Smeltzer, et al.

United States of America United States of America

Recommended books: 1- Medical Surgical Nursing:


Clinical Management for Positive

Joyce Black Jane Jawks

Outcomes Periodicals:

Lactate clearance and survival following

Abramson, D.,

United States of

injury. Journal of Trauma, 35(4), 584588.


Neurological outcomes after near drowning. Critical Care Nurse, 17(4), 1925.

Scalea, T. M., Hitchcock, R., Trooskin, S. Z., Henry, S. M., & Greenspan, J.(1993).
DeBoer, S. L. (1997).

America

5 6 7

Scientific magazines: 1Web sites: Others:

7- Facilities required for teaching and learning: Films education; educational conference; fixed data show and overhead/educational CDs in nursing practical subjects.
Course Coordinator: Department Head: Academic Coordinator: Date: Efren Molina II Noraliza Ingua Dr. Ma. Carla Vigonte February 22, 2014

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