Bethlehem University - Faculty of Nursing

The college of Nursing offers a four-year undergraduate program leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Nursing. This program prepares professional nurses who can work with a multidisciplinary health team in order to meet the client's health needs and to upgrade the quality of health care in various health settings. The program also prepares students to sit for professional licensing exams such as the "State Board Exam of the United States" or "United Kingdom Central Council (UKCC)."

A student majoring in Nursing needs to earn a total of 131 credits distributed as follows.

NURS 200	Introduction to Nursing (3)	NURS338	Community Health Nursing (5)
NURS 251	Fundamentals Nursing I (5)	NURS 341	Psychiatric Nursing (5)
NURS 252	Fundamentals Nursing II (5)	NURS 350	Nursing Management (3)
NURS 332	Maternity Nursing (5)	NURS 351	Pharmacology I (2)
NURS 333	Pediatric Nursing (5)	NURS 352	Pharmacology II (2)
NURS 334	Medical Surgical Nursing I (5)	NURS 354	Nursing Research (2)
NURS 335	Medical Surgical Nursing II (5)	NURS 355	Professional Foundations (2)
NURS 336	Medical Surgical Nursing III (5)	NURS 389	Nursing Seminar (1)
NURS 337	Advanced Medical Surgical (5)

Students are accepted to major in nursing after their third semester provided that they have earned 48 credits and that all of the following conditions are met:

First Year
FALL SEMESTER		CR	SPRING SEMESTER		CR
ARAB 120	Arabic Language Skills I	3	ARAB 121	Arabic Language Skills II	3
ENGL 120	English Language Skills I	3	ENGL 121	English Language Skills II	3
MATH 111	Fundamentals of Math.	3	BIOL 251	Anatomy and Physiology I	3
BIOL 141	Introduction to Biology	4	SOCI 131	Introduction to Sociology	3
CHEM 121	Introduction to Chemistry	3	NURS 200	Introduction to Nursing	3
LIBR 101	Library Skills	R		Fine Arts Requirement	2
Second Year
FALL SEMESTER		CR	SPRING SEMESTER		CR
NURS 251	Fundamentals of Nursing I	5	NURS 252*	Fundamentals of Nursing II	5
HIST 120	History Modern Palestine	3	NURS 351	Pharmacology I	2
BIOL252	Anatomy and Physiology	3	BIOL 253	Nutrition	3
BIOL 254	Microbiology	3	SOCI 231	Sociology of the Family	3
PSED 101	Physical Education	1	ENGL 213	English Language Skills III	3
			PHIL 104	Medical Ethics	2
Third Year
FALL SEMESTER		CR	SPRING SEMESTER		CR
NURS 334*	Medical Surgical I	5	NURS 332*	Maternity of Nursing	5
NURS 335*	Medical Surgical II	5	NURS 333*	Pediatric of Nursing	5
NURS 352	Pharmacology II	2	MATH 352	Statistics	3
PSYC 231	Growth and Development	3	POLS 300	Themes in Political Science	3
* Note: These courses include 105 hours of clinical practice.
Fourth Year
FALL SEMESTER		CR	SPRING SEMESTER		CR
NURS 336*	Medical Surgical III	5	NURS 337*	Advanced Medical Surgical	5
NURS 338*	Community Health Nursing	5	NURS 341*	Psychiatric Nursing	5
NURS 350	Nursing Management	3	NURS 355	Professional Foundation	2
NURS 354	Nursing Research	2	NURS 389	Nursing Seminar	1
ECON 300	Basic Economics	3	RELS 300	Cultural Religious Studies	3
* Note: These courses include 105 hours of clinical practice.

Designed to provide the student with the principles and skills necessary to help victims of accidents, emergencies, and disaster situations. It includes measures to be taken to ensure personal safety, thus leading to accident prevention in the home and community. This is a practical course, part of which will be devoted to mastering first-aid skills.

This course is designed to provide the student with various health and nursing concepts. It also provides the student with a wide body of knowledge of the principles governing health maintenance and promotion, as well as illness prevention.

This course is designed to provide and reinforce the students with the anatomy and physiology of the human body. Furthermore, it will aid the student in identifying health and illness of the human body emphasizing with the pathophysiology of diseases and thus providing intervention.

The course is designed to provide concepts basic to the practice of clinical nursing. The nursing process is presented as a frame of reference in meeting the human needs of people and in the delivery of health care in a variety of settings. Prerequisite: NURS 200, BIOL 251

Continued emphasis on nursing concepts, procedures and their applications in lab and clinical setting make up this course. Prerequisite: NURS 251

The course includes the study of obstetrics and the nursing care of women during the various phases of child-bearing. The course also includes care of the well infant and presents specific measures in the prevention of disease and the promotion of health. Prerequisite: NURS 334, NURS 335

The course helps the students to develop an awareness of the importance of current child and infant care. It will stress the health problems of the infant and child and the nursing care necessary in restoring health to the child. The course will include the study of process in children family problems, and the tools that will be effective in helping the child and family attain realistic goals. Clinical experience will complement the theories that are presented. Prerequisite: PSYC 231, NURS 334, NURS 335

These courses present an integrated approach to the study of health and illness. Examination is made of all that occurs when various disease-causing processes exert their effect on physiological functions. It is designed to give a broad general background in the care of adults who have medical and surgical problems. Emphasis is placed upon the nursing intervention involved in the maintenance and restoration of physiological equilibrium. Prerequisite: NURS 252

Nursing concepts current to clinical practice in critical care nursing are included. Emergency, coronary care, intensive care and operating room nursing will be especially emphasized. Clinical experience will complement the theories that are presented. Prerequisite: NURS 334, NURS 335, NURS 336

This course helps the students to address the community as client and focuses on the facilitation of the health of families and groups in the community through health promotion, restoration and support processes. The role of community agencies in meeting health needs will be also introduced.

This course emphasizes mental health and psychiatric nursing concepts, constructs, and skills pertinent to nursing practice in selected psychiatric and community mental health settings.

Professional nursing practice within the organizational framework is presented. Leadership, organizational behavior, knowledge and skills required for management of common professional nursing activities in a health care setting are also covered.

The course is designed to enable nurses to assist more proficiently patients and physicians in health services. It includes generic and trade names for the common drugs in use, administration, actions, interactions, doses, uses, side effects, contraindications and special focus on nursing considerations.

The course explores skills essential to the research process through critical analysis of research studies, and the application of principles of research methodology to selected projects.Prerequisite: MATH 352

The course is a study of relationships and responsibilities of professional nursing with emphasis on current issues and professional organizations, as well as the planning and the discussing of career development. The course is required and is restricted to the last semester senior nursing students.

This is a non-credit program designed to provide the Nursing student with an additional 300 clinical hours in a hospital setting for the mastery of nursing skills under the guidance of the nursing staff where the student is assigned. It has to be completed in the Summer Semester after the third year of study.

This course is designed to give the senior nursing student an opportunity to study in depth an area of specific interest. Faculty members will assist as coordinators or research consultants for the area of study. The findings of a written research paper will be presented to the seminar group. It is required and restricted to last semester senior nursing students.