This course is concerned with studying the anatomy of different systems of the human body. It covers cardiovascular system, lymphatic system, digestive system, endocrine system, blood, respiratory system, urinary system, reproductive system, musculo-skeletal system, nervous system, muscular system, and the special senses (vision, hearing, balance, taste and smell).

The main purpose is to provide the students with the basic knowledge and understanding of the function of different human body systems, essential for their practice.

This course illustrates the basics principles of biochemistry and familiarize the students with the value of studying biochemistry through promoting the understanding of metabolic pathways that exhibited by the human cells.

This course serves as the basis for the other nursing courses. It represents a solid foundation regarding technical and interpersonal experience. It focuses on historical perspectives of nursing profession, current trends in nursing, introduction to health and illness and health care delivery system. Also, it includes an orientation about nursing theories and introduces basic nursing skills as vital signs, hygiene, safety.

This course focuses on pathophysiologic changes reflecting the altered physiological mechanisms and thus leading to the development of disease. The course describes how these pathophysiologic changes are related to manifestations of diseases observed throughout the nursing practice.

This course serves as the basis for the other nursing courses. It represents a solid foundation regarding technical and interpersonal experience. It focuses on the use of the nursing process and a nursing diagnosis (NANDA) in the application of the knowledge learned throughout the course.

This course is explicitly designed for Bachelor of Nursing students. The lecture's contents cover the basic information of microbiology and parasitology, with pathogenic potential and clinical aspects of infectious diseases relevant to Nursing practices. Principles of transmission, infection control, and treatment of infections relevant to nursing in the community will be covered. The course will use a combination of interactive lectures and student-centered teaching strategies to encourage broad participation. Students will be asked to summarize and critique assigned readings and bring information from their reading to class discussion. The course also incorporates a practical study unit, introducing students to some fundamental safety and infection control principles and techniques.

This course illustrates the basics principles of Pharmacology and drug classifications. The course also includes the commonly used drugs and the different routes of administration, besides highlighting on the common drug administration errors and their effects on clients and nurses. Commonly used drugs are discussed regarding groups, forms, uses, doses, routes of administration and actions as well as the side effects. The course illustrates the mathematic calculations of dosage of medication. Common drug administration errors and their effects on clients and nurses are discussed.

The course introduces students to the effective knowledge and skills required for assessment of individual’s health status during health and illness throughout their life cycle. Emphasis will be placed on the Appropriate approaches of physical examination techniques and health history taking methods. Clinical part of the course is designed to provide the guided nursing experience, knowledge and skills essential for the basic preparation of the professional nurses in demonstration of physical examination tests and procedures in lab and in clinical area for patients with general medical and surgical problems.

The course provides an introduction to the concepts and theories of psychology and to their application to real life situations, as well as the biological and environmental factors affecting human behavior. Topics include introduction to concepts of psychology, biological bases of behavior, research methods in psychology, sensation and perception, motivation and emotions, psychology of learning, psychology of personality, health stress and coping, abnormal psychology, and treatment modalities for psychological disorders.

This course includes three main sections, which are as follows: 1- The family system in Islam: It explains the Islamic approach to building the family: (engagement and marriage), marital rights, polygamy, dealing with marital disputes, divorce provisions, the status of women in Islam, and their educational and cultural role. 2- The social system in Islam: It focuses on the foundations of Islamic society and its characteristics, social morals and legal etiquette, the conditions of Islamic society, and the most prominent social problems. 3- Islamic society and global transformations: It focuses on the student gaining the ability to explain human rights in Islam, how to benefit from globalization, and explaining Islam’s position on aggression, terrorism, sexual promiscuity and homosexuality.

The course is designed to explore the biological and psychosocial components of human growth and development throughout life span, with special reference to applicability to nursing practice. Furthermore, it concentrates on the main issues that help the student to develop a comprehensive and holistic nursing care for children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly. Therefore, this course will improve students’ knowledge about what to expect of a particular client at any given age, gain a better understanding of the reasons behind illnesses, and assist in formulating the plan of care for clients in different stages of growth and development.

The course focuses on the specific and complex problems that affect the functional health patterns of an individual patient. Emphasis will be placed on the impact of disease on an individual’s functional and nursing care to assist the individual to overcome these changes.  Clinical part of the course is designed to provide guided nursing experience, knowledge, and skills essential for the basic preparation of professional nurses in the nursing care of patients with general medical and surgical problems.  The course is also devoted to promote health and pre-health diseases.

This course focuses on nursing science and art. A historical overview is presented in order to orient the students with the evolution of nursing science and practice through history. It also explains the ethical influences and legal aspects of nursing as essential in the nursing profession. Additionally, the course focuses on important issues. international organizations. Health Organizations, licensure and focus is placed on health care services and education in the KSA.

It focuses on the knowledge of individual medical surgical patients with common alterations in functional health patterns. It focuses on the bio-psychosocial responses of individual to acute or chronic surgical and medical health problems. This course covers alterations in functional health patterns for selected topics such as metabolic and endocrine, hepatic, and biliary, renal, neurological, musculoskeletal, and gastrointestinal systems. For alterations in health patterns, the nursing process is used as a framework to formulate a nursing diagnosis and to identify nursing interventions which promote, maintain, and restore the health of individual and their families. The clinical part of the course is designed to guide students in clinical practice and to develop their skills and competencies in caring for patients with medical or surgical health problems.

This course includes four units, which are as follows: Ethics and the health professions, and deals with establishing the concept of ethics, and defining their connection to Islam, faith, worship, transactions, and their origins, and the ethics of the health professions and their systems. And the legal foundations of the health professions: This unit is considered a purely health professional specialty, which qualifies the person affiliated with the health sector to be committed to the legal provisions in the practice of His specialty is, and he is familiar with issues and rulings related to the jurisprudence of doctors and patients. The economic system in Islam, its sources, origins, characteristics, and goals, the three monarchies, restricted economic freedom, zakat, inheritance, banking, and insurance. The health economy, its reality, development, and future in the Kingdom.

This course provides an overview of nursing informatics for nursing students. It integrates nursing science with computer technology and information science to identify, gather, process and manage information. The course focuses on technology-based healthcare applications which support clinical, administration, research, and educational decision making that enhance the efficacy of nursing practice. It also focuses on developing students’ understanding of concepts relevant to current trends and issues in using, designing, and managing heath care information systems. Students will explore the use of informatics in nursing practice and its role in enhancing client care, gain an appreciation of the competencies required of an expert knowledge worker and apply the relevance of those competencies to their day-to-day practice as nurses.

This course is designed to provide nursing students with the knowledge and skills required to care women during pregnancy, labor birth and postpartum period, as well as care to newborn infant in relation to normal and abnormal conditions by utilizing nursing process.

This course focuses on providing students with evidence-based knowledge and skills required for nursing practitioners to care for their patients, and to meet the challenges of mental health nursing profession. This knowledge and skills are important in providing high quality health services to individuals and families with diverse mental health needs across the lifespan. It addresses major theories pertaining to the field of mental illness & mental wellness in general, and those related directly to nursing the mentally ill. It also introduces students to the legal and ethical principles the nurse needs to protect the rights of the patients and their own rights. The course will particularly focus on different treatment modalities for a wide range of mental disorders and conditions both in acute clinical settings as well as in the community using the nursing process as a framework for providing this service.

This course focuses on basic understanding of the research process. The course includes an overview of quantitative and qualitative approaches to research, and the analytical tools required to critically evaluate research reports. The course emphasizes the rights of human research subjects. Students are requested to prepare a research proposal step by step for a topic of their interest related to nursing.

The course focuses on application of the knowledge regarding normal growth and development in care of children. Also, it utilizes critical thinking practices in the application of nursing process for hospitalized children and discuss the physiological and psycho-social effects of illness and hospitalization on children and their families. This course helps the students to develop collaboration effectively with hospitalized children, families and inter-disciplinary teams using communication modalities.

This course is designed to provide nursing students with comprehensive knowledge of infection control's basic concepts (chain of infections, mode of transmission and hospital-acquired infections). This course focus is placed on isolation precautions (hand hygiene, antisepsis, and personal protective equipment (PPEs). the course also highlights the importance of improving patient outcomes through the practice round in the hospital.

This course emphasizes the knowledge and skills required to care safely for critically ill patients. It includes exposing nursing students to patients with life threatening conditions with different types of invasive devices. It also focuses on the development of students’ critical thinking and decision-making skills. The course provides an opportunity for nursing students to practice skilled nursing interventions for critically ill patients and to participate as an integral member of the intensive care team.

The emphasis for this course is on the elements of evidence-based practice. Focus is placed on the cyclical process of identifying clinical questions, searching and appraising the evidence for potential solutions, evaluating the outcomes and identifying additional gaps in nursing knowledge. In addition to this, the course highlights the importance of improving patient outcome through proper clinical decision-making process based on existing evidence, clinical judgment and patient preference.

Graduation Research Project is an independent that is mandated for each student individually and should be accomplished within timetable duration. Regarding for undergraduate nursing program, students should accomplish the project before graduation. Graduation project should be accomplished by a group of students based on one major in nursing topics and be supervised by one of the nursing faculty members.

This course is designed to provide nursing students with the knowledge and essential leadership skills. It exposes nursing students to management skills within the clinical areas as preparation for a future professional nurse leader. The course addresses building cultures of critical thinking, decision making skills, quality and safety in complex health care delivery systems.

This course includes foundation knowledge in considering the community as a client. Also, this course focuses on necessary skills to assess and critically analyze the risk aggregates and communities that help to identify, prioritize and plan culturally sensitive, competent care. In addition, it provides theory essential to apply nursing process and epidemiological approach in caring for individuals, families and community.