| Unit | Hours | Content |
| I | 5 | - Current status of health and disease burden
- Current concept of health and disease
- Vital statistics, Mortality and Morbidity rates and indicators
- National health programs
- National health policy, special laws &ordinances relating to health of people
- Epidemiology of communicable and non-communicable diseases.
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| II | 5 | - Nursing Theories
- Theory of nursing practice
- Meta paradigm of nursing- characterized by four central concepts i.e. nurse, person (client/patient) health and environment.
- Application of nursing theories into practice
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| III | 5 | - Nursing Process / Problem Solving Approach
- Nursing process
- Assessment Tools, Assessment methods
- Types of care plans, Care Pathways/Clinical pathways
- Implementation Different approaches to care, organizations and implementation of care
- Documentation, reporting
- Process of Evaluation
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| IV | 20 | - Nursing Policies and Protocols
- Standard Operating procedures in nursing
- Nursing protocols in
- Emergency department
- Medical
- Surgical
- Operation room
- ICU/CCU
- Blood bank/ Blood transfusion
- Transplant UnitsOncolo
- gy units
- OBG Units
- Paediatric units
- Psychiatric units
- Other specialty units like Neuro, Nephro, Eye, ENT, Ortho etc.
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| V | 5 | - Investigations and diagnostics – Role of nurses
- Types of investigations and diagnostic methods
- Preparation of patients for different types of investigations and diagnostic procedures
- Precautions to be followed for investigations and diagnostic procedures
- Collection of samples from patients
- Monitoring of patients during diagnostic procedures
- Critical values of investigations and immediate interventions
- Post procedure care of patients
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| VI | 15 | - Hospital acquired infections & infection control initiatives
- Concepts of Hospital infection prevention and control
- Hand Hygiene, standard safety measures
- Hospital acquired infections
- Care bundles for prevention of HAI – Ventilator Assisted Pneumonia, Surgical Site Infection, Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection, Catheter Associated Blood Stream Infection, Vascular care, wound care, care of system and indwelling devices.
- Antibiotic Policy and surveillance
- Infection control in OT and CSSD
- Sterilization and disinfection practices of hospital equipments, instruments
- Linen management with regard to infection control
- Hospital infection control committee
- Surveillance of High-Risk areas and High-Risk Procedures – General Principles to be Followed in High-Risk Areas, ICU, OT, Obstetrics and labor room, ER, Haemodialysis unit and Renal transplantation, Laboratories – Gastro-endoscopy unit, Blood bank, Dental clinic, Mortuary practices
- Bio-medicalwastemanagement
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| VII | 10 | - Medication Management
- Hospital drug formulary
- Recently advancements in pharmacology – newer drugs speciality wise
- Different types of medications and routes of administration
- High risk/ high alert medications
- Emergency medications
- Look alike/ sound alike medications
- Use of medications in divided doses
- Dosage calculation of drugs and fluids
- Medications errors – Types, monitoring, corrective and preventive actions
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| VIII | 5 | - Patient safety
- International Patient safety goals
- Informed consent process
- Management of vulnerable patients
- Prevention of patient falls
- Preventing thrombo-embolism
- Prevention of pressure ulcers
- Surgical safety
- Standard precautions
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| IX | 10 | - Diet Therapy
- Introduction to diet therapy
- Routine hospital diets
- Fluid & electrolyte management
- Total parenteral and enteral nutrition
- Therapeutic diet under each unit i.e. Cardiovascular diseases Gastrointestinal diseases Renal disorders Endocrine and metabolic disorders Allergy Infections and fevers Pre and post-operative stage, Deficiency diseases and malnutrition overweight and underweight.
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| X | 10 | - Computer applications for patient care delivery system and nursing practice
- Use of computers in teaching,learning,research and nursing practice
- Windows, MSoffice: Word,Excel,PowerPoint
- Internet, literature search
- Statisticalpackages
- Hospital management information system: softwares
- Eletronic documentation of patient care
- Electronic medication managemnt system
- Indenting, inventory managemnt, error capturing, monitoring quality indicators through HIMS softwares
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| XI | 10 | - Communication and soft skills
- Therapeutic communication
- Handing over and taking over
- Communication with physicians, Helath care team, patients and family members
- Age specific communication
- Culture specific communication
- Managing patients with difficuly to communicate
- Meeting Patient expectations
- Communication of bad news
- Grooming standards and personal appearance
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| XII | 10 | - Psychological aspects and Human relations
- Human behavior, Life processes &growth and development, personality development, defense mechanisms
- Communication, interpersonal relationships individual and group, group dynamics, and organizational behavior.
- Basic human needs, Growth and development (Conception through reschool, School age through adolescence,Young & middle adult , and Older adult)
- Sexuality and sexual health
- Stress and adaptation , crisis and its intervention
- Coping with loss, death and grieving
- Principles and techniques of Counseling
- Techniques of counseling :Interview, casework characteristics of counselor, problems in counseling
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| XIII | 10 | - Disaster nursing and Emergency nursing
- Disaster preparedness and management
- Hospital emergency codes – Code Blue, red, pink, purple, oranage, grey
- Mass casualty mangement
- Communication during disasters
- BLS, ACLS, ATLS, PALS, NALS
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