Development of Nursing as a profession
- Its philosophy
- Objectives and responsibilities of a graduate nurse
- Trends influencing nursing practice
- Expanded role of the nurse
- Development of nursing education in India and trends in nursing education
- Professional organizations, career planning
- Code of ethics & Professional conduct for nurse.
Ethical, legal and other issues in nursing
- Concepts of health and illness, effects on the person
- Stress and adaptation
- Health care concept and nursing care concept
- Developmental concept, needs, roles and problems of the development stages of individual –newborn, infant, toddler, pre-adolescent, adolescent, adulthood, middle-age, old age.
Theory of nursing practice
- Meta paradigm of nursing – characterized by four central concepts i.e. nurse, person (client/patient), health and environment.
Nursing process
- Assessment: Tools for assessment, methods, recording.
- Planning: Techniques for planning care, types of care plans.
- Implementation of care, recording.
- Evaluation: Tools for evaluation, process of evaluation.
Quality assurance
- nursing standards, nursing audit, total quality management.
- Role of council and professional bodies in maintenance of standards.
Primary health care concept
- Community oriented nursing
- Holistic nursing, Primary nursing
- Family oriented nursing concept, Problem oriented nursing
- Progressive patient care
- Team nursing
- Biomedical Waste Management