Ethics in nursing: Concepts of a nurse, code of ethics, ethical principles, legal
issues in nursing & law, nursing regulations, bioethical issues; and
professional standards; professional accountability.
Trends and issues in nursing: Trans-cultural nursing; the process of educating
nurses; transition from student to professional; different nursing
organizations; and position of nurses.
Health Assessment: Introduction to nursing process; health assessment; data
and assessment strategies; practical skills and physical examination basic to
biophysical, psychosocial, and spiritual assessment, and diagnostic tests and
investigations, ethical concerns
Nursing techniques & procedures: Principles of care, basic need for
nutrition & hydration, wound care; urinary and bowel elimination;
administering medication, IV fluid and blood products; specimen collection;
preparation of patient for different diagnostic procedures, admission &
discharge, dying & death & basic nursing care.
Concept of nutrition, classification of food, digestion, absorption, and
utilization of carbohydrate, protein and fat, functions of nutrition on health;
human needs of nutrients across life span; eating patterns of people with
different age group and factors affecting nutritional deficits within
Bangladesh culture; food hygiene, food preservation; nutritional assessment,
nutrient deficiency diseases, prevention and treatments; therapeutic diet and
nutritional support with modification based on individual differences, family
and community context.-