ADVANCE NURSING PRACTICE

SL U GUIDE Hrs Name of CONTENTS

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1 I 10 Complet NURSING AS A PROFESSION
e  History of development of nursing
professionCharacteristics,criteriaof the profession,perspective
of nursing professional,global.
 Code of ethics,code of professional conduct,autonomy and
accountability,assertiveness,visibility of nurses,legal
considerations.
 Role of regulatory bodies
 Professional organizations and unions-self defense,individual
and collective bargaining.
 Educational preparations,continuing education,career
opportunities,professional advancement and role and scope
of nursing education.
 Role of research leadership and management.
 Quality assurance in nursing
 Futuristic nursing.

2 ii 5 Complet HEALTH CARE DELIVERY:

e  Health care environment,economics,constraints,planning
process,policies,political process vis a vis nursing profession
 Health care delivery system-national,state,district and local
level
 Major stake holders in the health care system-
government,non-govt,industry and other professionals
 Patterns of nursing care delivery in india.
 Health care delivery concerns ,national health and family
welfare programme,inter –sectoral co-ordination,role of non-
govtal agencies
 Information,education and communication
 Tele-medicine

GENETICS
3 iii Mrs.Sapna 10
 Review of cellular division, mutation and law of inheritance,
JOGITA
human genome project, The genomic era.
JOGITA
 Basic concept of genes, chromosomes and DNA.

 Approaches to common genetic disorders.

JOGITA
 Genetic testing – Basis of genetic diagnosis, pre symptomatic
ANU
and predisposition testing, prenatal diagnosis and screening.
Ethical, legal and psychosocial issues in genetic testing.
 Genetic counselling
ANU
 Practical application of genetics in nursing
ANU
 EPIDEMIOLOGY
4 Iv Mrs. Jobi 10  History, scope, aim, epidemiological approach and methods.
Mathew  Morbidity, Mortality
Israel  Concepts of causation of diseases and their screening.
Israel  Health surveilliance and health informatics
Simon  Application of epidemiology in health care delivery, uses o f
Anu epidemiology
 R ole of nurses
Anu
BIO-PSYCHO SOCIAL PATHOLOGY

5 V Mrs.Glory 20  Patho-psychology and psychodynamics of disease causation

Israel  Life processes, homeostatic mechanism
Ima  Biological and psycho-social dynamics in causation of disease,
Minu life style.
 Common problems: Oxygen insufficiency,
Simon  fluid and electrolyte imbalance
Deepu  Nutritional problems
Minu  Hemorrhage and shock
Mini  Altered body temperature
Christina  Unconsciousness
Israel
 Sleep pattern and its disturbances
Mathew
 Pain, sensory deprivation
Dhrishya
 Treatment aspects : Pharmacological and pre- post operative
care aspects
Dhrishya
 CPR-Adult
 CPR-Child
Deepu
 End of life care
Christina
 Infection prevention (Including HIV) and standard safety
Mathew
measures, biomedical waste management
Ima
PHILOSOPHY AND THEORIES OF NURSING
6 Vi Ms Clarisa 20  Values, Conceptual models, approaches
Mini  Nursing Theories and their applications : Nightingale’s ,
Mrs Glory Hendersons’s, Roger’s, Peplau’s, Abdella’s
 Nursing Theories and their applications : Lewine’s, Orem’s,
Johnson’s, King’s
Ms.Clarisa  Nursing Theories and their applications : Neuman’s, Roy’s,
Watson Parsce
Mrs.Sapna  Health belief models, communication and management etc.
Ms.Ima  Concept of self health
Simon  Evidence based practice model
Simon
NURSING PROCESS APPROACH
 Health Assessment – approaches, illness, status of patients
7 Vii Mrs.Sapna 10 (Individuals, family, community), Identification of health
illness- problems, health behaviours, signs and symptoms of
clients.
-CVS
Deepu -CNS
-Respiratory
 Mathew -Musculo-skeletal
Israel -ENT
Simon -Eyes
Minu -Genital
Christen -Endocrine
Anu -Gastroenterology
Mini -Integumentary
Ima -Urinary
Drishya  Data collection
Jogita  Nursing diagnosis
 Planning
Complet  Implementation
ed  Evaluation
 Theory application in nursing process

PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS AND HUMAN RELATIONS

 Human Behaviour, Life processes and growth and
development, personality development, defense mechanism
8 Vii Mrs.Joby  Communication, interpersonal relationships, individual and
i Jacob 30 Mini groups, group dynamics and organisational behaviour.
 Basic human needs,Growth and development( conception
Drishya through preschool,school age through adolescence,young and
middle adult,old adult)
Christen  Sexuality and sexual health
e  Stress and adaptation,crisis and its intervention
Jogita  Coping with loss,death and grieving
Minu  Principles and techniques of counselling
Deepu
Complet  NURSING PRACTICE
ed  Framework,scope and trends
 Alternative modalities of care,alternative systems of health
9 Ix 10 New msc
and complimentary therapies
Students
 Extended and expanded role of the nurse,in
promotive,preventive ,curative and restorative health care
delivery system in community and institution
 Health promotion and primary health care
 Indepent practice issues-independent nurses-midwifery
practitioner
 Collabration issues and models-within and outside nursing
 Models of prevention
 Family nursing,home nursing
 Gender sensitive issues and women empowerment
 Disaster nursing
 Geriatric consideration in nursing
 Evidence based nursing practice-Best practices
 Trans-cultural nursing
 Innovations in nursing

 COMPUTER APPLICATION FOR PATIENT CARE DELIVERY

SYSTEM AND NURSING PRACTICE;
 Use of computers in teaching,learning ,research and nursing
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 Windows,MSoffice:Word,Excel,Power point
New  Internet,literature search
10 x MSC  Statistical packages
Students  Hospital management information system;soft-wares