This course emphasis on multiple aspects of assessment including physical, functional, and mental health assessment. The course is designed to enable the student to develop nursing diagnostic reasoning skills to perform complete health assessments on selected clients, obtaining an in-depth health history, performing a comprehensive physical examination using a systems approach, differentiate normal from abnormal, recording findings and developing a problem list and treatment plan.

The course introduces students with advanced knowledge about the scientific method, research design, and quantitative and statistical analysis of data. The course offers students the opportunity to conduct research on topics within their field of study.

This course introduces students to a historical overview of nursing that reflects the evolution of nursing science and practice through history. It also stresses the ethical influences and legal aspects of nursing as essential in the nursing profession. Additionally, the course addresses the national and international policies related to nursing practice. It also focuses on important Political Issues Affecting Cancer Care.

This course is designed to meet the needs of nurses working in an oncology setting who wish to become senior specialists in oncology care. This course is focused on applying critical thinking, integrates set of nursing theories and research findings to provide holistic oncology and palliative nursing care for patients dealing with cancer. Also, this course focuses on special pathophysiologic concepts related to cancer malignant processes affecting adult individuals across the lifespan. The course describes the pathologic mechanisms producing signs and symptoms of solid tumors/ hematology disease processes commonly encountered in oncology nursing practice and the course provide an overview regarding the cultural and ethical issues in oncology and palliative care nursing. Moreover, Evidence-Based Research which will be integrated with the best available evidences in oncology and palliative nursing care field.

This course covers the nursing clinical skills in the care of patients with cancer conditions. It also focuses on prioritizing application of immediate, rapid, and accurate nursing assessment and provision of quality nursing care. It also addresses advanced comprehensive quality nursing care for oncology/palliative patient with different body system alterations, with different types of invasive devices and with different types of equipment used in the oncology care setting.

This course is designed to prepare Master students for conducting their own research project toward the end of their degree by consolidating all relevant research principles and activities needed for this endeavor as well as strengthening students’ autonomy, creativity, self-reliance, and critical thinking abilities. The course will review main principles of research in the nursing field, it will discuss in detail the steps of constructing a research proposal for both academic and funding purposes, and it will introduce students to principles of reading and critiquing research reports. Students will also be introduced to professional scientific writing of research articles for publication in terms of structure, format, contents, and style. Finally, students will learn the process of publishing a research report and the many issues related to this activity such as the choice of scientific journal, copyright issues, publication ethics, impact factor, and plagiarism.

This course is designed to meet the needs of nurses working in an oncology setting who wish to become senior specialist in oncology care. This course is focused on delivering competent and special oncology nursing care to promote the wellbeing, caring, and coping of individual with cancer who received different treatments modalities such as chemotherapy principles, surgery therapies and managements. Principles of radiotherapy and biotherapy. Principles of genetic therapy. Also, bone marrow and stem cell transplantation are included topics in this course with alternative and complementary therapies. Furthermore, the treatment modalities will be supported by using Evidence Based Research which will be integrated with the best available evidences in oncology and palliative nursing care field.

This course covers the nursing skills in the clinical practice to take care of patients with cancer conditions. It also focuses on prioritizing application of immediate, rapid, and accurate nursing assessment and provision of quality nursing care. It also addresses advanced comprehensive quality nursing care for oncology/palliative patient with different treatments modalities, with different types of invasive devices and with different types of equipment used in the oncology care setting.