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Students will be able to understand the economic process that underlie, in conjunction with political interaction, various national security and defence resource allocation decisions, from budget-making to procurement to expenditures.
- Lecturer: Patrice Whitely
- Lecturer: Patrice Whitely
- Lecturer: Suzette Haughton
- Lecturer: Patrice Whitely
Students will be able to understand the economic process that underlie, in conjunction with political interaction, various national security and defence resource allocation decisions, from budget-making to procurement to expenditures.
This course introduces the student to health informatics. Emphasis is placed on current trends and concerns in information management in healthcare including legal, social, cognitive and economic issues. It also links information with the utilization of technology to support nursing practice and assists learners to contribute to the development of information systems to promote quality in nursing care. Students will apply critical thinking skills to examine the various ways in which technology can support evidence-based information to improve the quality of nursing care.
Category: School of Nursing
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course focuses on common health problems affecting the adult (ages 19-64 years). It facilitates students' development of an evidence-based framework to inform nursing practice in caring for adults along the wellness-illness continuum. The course engages students' critical thinking in decision-making to deliver nursing care in various clinical settings. Emphasis is placed on the nursing process as central to patient-focused care. The ethical and legal frameworks will be integrated into the caring approach to care.
COURSE RATIONALE
Adults aged 19 - 64 years old are considered as
possessing the greatest potential for productivity in any society. This places a high premium on their need for
maintaining optimal health while placing them at greatest risk for health
interference. Additionally, predispositions to chronic and other illnesses are manifested during
adulthood. These realities require
health care interventions at primary, secondary and tertiary levels of
prevention that specifically target the developmental tasks of adulthood and
address adults' unique health care needs
Category: Western Jamaica Campus
WELCOME TO NURSING CARE OF ADULT NURS2213
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course focuses on common health problems affecting the adult (ages 19-64 years). It facilitates students' development of an evidence-based framework to inform nursing practice in caring for adults along the wellness-illness continuum. The course engages students' critical thinking in decision-making to deliver nursing care in various clinical settings. Emphasis is placed on the nursing process as central to patient-focused care. The ethical and legal frameworks will be integrated into the caring approach to care.
COURSE RATIONALE
Adults aged 19 - 64 years old are considered as possessing the greatest potential for productivity in any society. This places a high premium on their need for maintaining optimal health while placing them at greatest risk for health interference. Additionally pre-dispositions to chronic and other illnesses are manifested during adulthood. These realities require health care interventions at primary, secondary and tertiary levels of prevention that specifically target the developmental tasks of adulthood and address adults' unique health care needs.
Category: School of Nursing
This course explores basic management and leadership concepts, theories, processes and systems, and their application to the health care system. It prepares the graduates for assuming leadership and management roles as first line managers within the social, legal and economical contexts of a fiscally constrained health service. The role of the nurse as a supervisor, leader, change agent and manager is emphasized. Current issues, opportunities and challenges for nursing leadership in different nursing, community and organizational venues are included.
Category: Western Jamaica Campus