The purpose of this course is to provide students with major constructs of theories and models that form the foundation of nursing and to investigate the history and evolution of nursing leaders, the evolving issues, concepts and theories and their application to nursing practice.

This course serves as the basis for providing informed nursing care based on nursing theories. It represents a solid foundation to describe, analyze, critique, and evaluate various nursing activities and explore the relationship of nursing theories with clinical practice and nursing research.

This course is designed to prepare the MSc. student to gain advanced knowledge and comprehensive health assessment nursing practice of clients across the life span.

This course emphasis on multiple aspects of assessment including history taking, physical examination and diagnostic process. 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 is designed to provide postgraduate nursing students with an advanced knowledge about the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying acute or chronic health alterations across the lifespan and how each disease affects various body systems or organs. This course provides the nursing student with the advanced knowledge to understand pathogenesis of some psychiatric disorders and neurostructural, neurochemical, psychopharmacologic processes relevant to psychiatric illnesses.

This course focuses on pathophysiologic concepts related to altered biological processes affecting adult individuals across the lifespan. The course describes the general pathologic mechanisms producing signs and symptoms of specific disease processes commonly encountered in nursing practice. Moreover, this course focuses on the pathogenesis of psychiatric disorders as a consequence of abnormalities and alterations of normal neurophysiological function as well as review theoretical and research contributions to our understanding of the etiology and maintenance of psychopathology mechanism.

This aim of the course is to provide master students with advance knowledge about two aspects: epidemiology and biostatistics together.

In regard to epidemiology part: the course introduces students to obtain advance knowledge about   Epidemiological science and its application to the Nursing field. In addition, it aims to discuss further information related to surveillance procedures, principles of Epidemiology, the distribution and determinants of disease and health related events in human population.

In regard the Biostatistics part: this course provides the student with the advance knowledge of statistical concepts and analysis; in addition, it enables students to analyze and interpret data by utilizing the Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS) program.

This course is combined Epidemiology and Biostatistics. It is designed to prepare for master students to learn the fundamental statistical and Epidemiological concepts and tests related to the practice of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, with review of descriptive and analytical statistical methods as well as the advance Epidemiological analytical techniques with appropriate summaries and displays of data, and the use of classical statistical approaches to describe the health of populations.

The course provides master students with a basic understanding of the research process. The course provides an overview of quantitative and qualitative approaches in nursing research, and the analytical tools required to critically evaluate research reports. The course emphasizes ethical consideration of human research subjects.  Students are requested to prepare a research proposal step by step for a topic of their interest related to nursing. Furthermore, the course provides the students with approaches and tools to address nursing research and problems in order to successfully conceptualize, plan, carry out, and write a research proposal and project.

This aim of the course is to provide master students with advance knowledge about research methodological skills to carry out independent research in the field of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing. In addition, the course is designed to improve master students’ abilities in several key areas, enabling them to develop an advanced understanding of various aspects of research philosophies, methods, data analyses and presentation styles.

This course purposes to help the master student explore and examine knowledge, concepts, principles, and theories in the Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing.  Also, it assists students to understand aspects of human behavior and experiences in the context of mental health-mental illness continuum. The nursing process and the therapeutic nurse-client relationship is used to structure the content of the different topics.

The course is designed to addresses the advanced practice psychiatric/mental nurse practitioner role in multiple settings and specific psychiatric and mental disorders from historical and contemporary perspectives. This course also examines issues and concepts in the specialized areas of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, and it focuses on the promotion of the care of clients experiencing Psychiatric and Mental Health problems. The course utilizes theoretical concepts and builds on the knowledge and skills of the student in the care of the client, families, and the community with psychological disorders, and in the nursing management of specific disorders.

This course is designed to advance the student's clinical practice with patients in a variety of psychiatric mental health settings.  The practicum is the second of two consecutive courses. Expectations of this clinical experience are direct patient contact, therapeutic interaction with staff, families, and systems, as well as medication management. The student will function in the role of the advanced practice psychiatric nurse practitioner.

This practicum course provides extensive experience to prepare the student for the professional role of a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner. Students provide interviewing, screening, diagnostic testing, episodic, acute and chronic care to pediatrics, clients and families. The student should demonstrate evidence-based practice behaviors and adhere to standards of care to order and interpret screening/diagnostic tests, prescribe therapeutics, and develop health prevention/promotion, and health maintenance plans. Students should be able to assess the pediatric client, and families and develop a plan of care in consultation with the preceptor. The student should provide holistic care through the integration of ethnicity, culture, and community.

This course is designed to assist the students of “Master of Science in Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing” to examine advanced concepts in pharmacology and to develop competence in evaluation and monitoring of psychopharmacological agents used in the treatment of psychiatric-mental health disorders.

This course is designed to examine the major classes  of  psychopharmacological  agents  on neurobiological function with an emphasis on the clinical management of target psychiatric symptoms, purpose of use, action, common interactions and contraindications, effects and side effects, drugs of abuse, and management of advanced practice of psychotropic drugs.

This course helps the students to acquire knowledge and skills in practicing counseling and psychotherapy with clients with mental health needs. This course also provides an overview of the major counseling theories and practices. Emphasis is placed upon enabling students to develop a theoretical foundation upon which to base a counseling approach.

This course covers the field of counseling and psychotherapy practice, including its approaches, models, techniques, and ethical considerations.  This course also provides an overview of current methods of psychological intervention, with a strong emphasis on empirically supported forms of treatment. Students can expect to learn about many widely used cognitive and behavioral methods, including relaxation procedures, cognitive restructuring, exposure-based treatments, skills training, and mindfulness and acceptance-based approaches. Other topics to be addressed include working with children and multicultural populations and psychotherapy outcome. Students can also expect to become familiar with some of the available manuals for treating a variety of problems.