UNIVERSITY OF JOS, JOS NIGERIA

FACULTY OF ALLIED HEALTH SCIENCES

DEPARTMENT OF NURSING SCIENCE

BACHELOR OF NURSING SCIENCE

(B. N. SC.) DEGREE PROGRAMME

2004

UNIVERSITY OF JOS, FACULTY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES,

DEPARTMENT OF NURSING SCIENCE

BACHELOR OF NURSING SCIENCE (B.N. Sc.) DEGREE PROGRAMME

PROPOSAL

It is hereby proposed that Bachelor of Nursing Science is approved and commenced with the establishment of the Department of Nursing Science in 2003/2004 Academic Session.

PREAMBLE

With advances in socio-economic development in Nigeria and the global access to information, comes the realization that health care needs of community are not being adequately met. The society is becoming more informed and increasingly aware of its fundamental rights, accordingly, health care professionals must be adequately trained to deliver the quality of care that is relevant, functional and acceptable to their clients.

The philosophy of the training of nursing professionals in Department of Nursing Science will be hinged on education that emphasizes the harmonious development of the potentials of students, to achieve excellence in the ethics and practice of nursing. 

INTRODUCTION

The degree programme offers general or liberal and professional education for nurses. The curriculum prepares the nurse to think effectively, to communicate thought, to make judgements and to discriminate among values. The nurse will be capable of performing nursing skills in a variety of settings, therapeutically assisting individuals of diverse backgrounds and health problems. She/he will understand the social, psychosocial, and physical factors involved in the promotion, maintenance and restoration of health and will be able to translate these factors into health needs, relating them to the appropriate health services. She/he will be able to assess health programmes in their broadest scope, with major emphasis on the promotion, maintenance and restoration of health. She/he will be able to relate the role of the health service to the broader social system. Therefore, the B.N.Sc. degree programme is designed to produce polyvalent nurse practitioners, who can function effectively within the health care delivery system of the nation.

PHILOSOPHY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF NURSING.

The concept of this proposal takes into consideration the Department of Nursing Science as having the greatest concern for service through high standards of scholarship and personal character. The ultimate purpose is being the advancement of public welfare and culture, through wider and deeper knowledge, finer skills, and broader appreciation of human values and the African cultural heritage.

The concept in consonance with the spirit of a health team, in which the individual, the family and the community play significant roles, is the most effective approach to the promotion, maintenance and restoration of health.

The aims and objectives of the Department of Nursing Science are in harmony with the aims and objectives of the College of Medical Sciences.

AIMS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF NURSING SCIENCE

1                     To provide a milieu conducive to learning and practising good quality nursing care.

2                     To graduate professional nurses capable of giving high quality nursing care to individuals and communities of diverse background, and in a variety of social and cultural settings.

3                     To assist students in learning to solve problems by exposing them to problem situation and by involving them in research projects.

4                     To optimize educational activities towards the development of a health team approach to health care.

5                     To sensitize faculty members to carry out research aimed at improving the quality of nursing.

6                     To organise continuing education programmes for its faculty members and for other nurses outside the University.

7                     To assess the educational programmes of the department in the light of:

i.                    the educational objectives;

ii.                   the health needs of the nation and;

iii.                 The adequacy of the departmental educational programmes as foundations for furthers studies.

8.       To develop and maintain educational materials and other learning resources.

9.       To formulate strategic plans and seek funds to maintain its educational and training programme.

The purpose of the programme is to prepare professional Nurse/Midwife/Public Health Nurse Practitioners capable of assuming professional responsibilities in various health delivery agencies including community health and psychiatry, and who with further experience, can assume greater responsibilities in nursing, and can proceed to graduate studies in nursing.

VI.               ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

A.                 Admission to 100 level:

Candidates seeking admission into the department of Nursing Science may be considered for admission to 100 Level after passing at the required level the University Matriculation Examination (UME) of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) provided they obtain a pass in the Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination of the West African Examination Council (WAEC) or National Examination Council (NECO) or its approved equivalent at Credit Level in at least Five subjects including English Language, Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology and Physic; and provided that all five subjects are taken and passed at not more than two sittings.

B.                  Exemption from 100 level (Direct Entry)

Candidates for admission to 200 level by Direct Entry having been exempted from the Candidates for admission to 100 level are in the following categories:

i.                     Candidates who have satisfied the Senior Secondary School Certificate Requirements for admission into this university (i.e. five credit passes as stated in ‘A’ above, and who in addition obtain passes in at least two science subjects including Biology/Zoology, Chemistry and Physics at the General Certificate of Education, Advanced Level (or the Higher School Certificate), Principal level (IJMB) or at any other equivalent examinations approved by the Senate of the University of Jos.

ii.                   Candidates who are holders of the R.N. Diploma of the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria, or its equivalent as approved by the Senate of the University of Jos who have passed at the required credit level in the Senior School Certificate Examination of WAEC or NECO or its equivalents in at least five subjects including English Language, Mathematics, and any two of Physics, Biology and Chemistry, and any one Social Science subject.

A total of 188 Semester credit including the student’s major and general education courses are needed for graduation. The distribution of the number of semester credits which are considered prerequisites for graduations are shown below:

COURSE SEQUENCE

100 LEVEL

1^ST YEAR

1^ST SEMESTER

2^ND SEMESTER

200 LEVEL

NRS 101 Introduction to Professional Nursing 1-1-0-2

PRE 300 LEVEL

Concentrated Clinical Practice (8 weeks)

NRS 200 Foundation of Nursing

Practice                         0     2     30     10

300 LEVEL

PRE 400 LEVEL

Concentrated Clinical Practice (8 weeks)

NRS 400 Community Health Nursing  II    10

NRS 420 Medical Surgical Nursing            10

Total                                                     20                                    

400 LEVEL

PRE- 500 LEVEL

Concentrated Clinical Practice (4 weeks)

NRS 500 Maternal and Child Health Nursing III  0  2  30  10

NRS 520 Medical Surgical Nursing                    0   2  30  10

Industrial Training Attachment for NRS 409/408 - 6 WEEKS. (Industrial Training Attachment will normally take place in University of Jos Clinical affiliation and the approved Health facilities approved by the senate).

500 LEVEL

ELECTIVES

(One Elective each Semester as available)

COURSE DESCRIPTION

COURSE TITLE AND SHORT DESCRIPTION

100 LEVEL

BIO       101            GENERAL BIOLOGY I:

Cell structure and organization, functions of cellular organelles, diversity, characteristics and classification of living things, general reproduction, interrelationship of organisms; heredity and evolution; elements of ecology and types of habitat.              4

BIO       102            GENERAL BIOLOGY II

A general survey of the plant and animal kingdoms based mainly on the study of similarities and difference in the external features; ecological adaptation of these forms.              4

BIO        105              PRACTICAL BIOLOGY              3

CHM     101            PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY I

Atoms, molecules and chemical reactions; chemical equations and stoichiometry; atomic structure and periodicity, modern electronic theory of atoms; radioactivity; chemical bonding; properties of gases; equilibria and thermodynamics; chemical kinetics; electrochemistry, thermochemistry.             3

CHM     102            ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Historical survey of the development and importance of organic chemistry. Nomenclature and classes of organic compounds; homologous series. Te carbon atom and bonding, structural and optical isomerisms, functional groups, conformation, alkanes, alcohols, amines, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acid derivatives of carboxylic acids, amino acids, benzene compounds and phenols. Determination of structure of organic compounds; electronic theory inorganic chemistry. Preparation, isolation and purification of organic compounds, qualitative and quantitative analysis of organics compounds.              3

CHM       103              PRACTICAL PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY              1

CHM       104              PRACTICAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY              1

CHM     105            INORGANIC CHEMISTRY I

Periodic table an periodicity of elements. Chemistry of hydrogen, study of the groups I and II metals; oxides, hydroxides, halides and aqueous chemistry. Valency forces, structure of solids. Characteristics of the first row transition metals; oxidation state, redox reactions and complexes. Chemistry of iron and copper. Study of the group VII elements and basic chemistry of nitrogen phosphorus, oxygen and sulphur. Hydrides, oxides, oxo-acids and oxo-anions of the non-metallic elements. Elementary qualitative and quantitative analysis.  3

CHM       106              PRACTICAL INORGANIC CHEMISTRY I              1

PHY      101            GENERAL PHYSICS I

Space and Time. Frames of reference. Units and dimensions. Kinematics; Fundamental laws of mechanics, Statics and dynamics: Galilean invariance; universal gravitation; work an energy; rotational dynamics and angulae momentum; conservative laws.      3

PHY      102            GENERAL PHYSICS II

Electrostatics, conductors and currents; dielectric; magnetic fields an induction: Maxwell’s equation: electromagnetic oscillations and waves; applications.              3

PHY      103            GENERAL PHYSICS III

Molecular treatment of the properties of matter: Electricity; Hooke’s law: Young’s shear and bulk moduli; hydrostatics: Pressure: Buoyancy; Archimedes’ principle. Hydrodynamics: streamlines: Bernoullis and continuity equations; turbulence; Reynold’s number: Viscocity; laminar flow; Poiseuille’