د. عبد الكريم سعيد محمد رضوان

 The Islamic University- Gaza

Faculty of Nursing

Microbiology for Nurses

 

Course Number: NURS 1303

Semester: The course is offered on fall course for first year students.

Credit hours: The course is made up for 3 credit hours.

Lecturer: Dr. Abdalkarim Radwan

Prerequisites: None .

 

Course Description :

The course is designed to provide nursing students with an essential idea of microbiology regarding general knowledge about bacteria & bacterial diseases, Viruses & viral disease, protozoa and fungi and effects on human health and methods of prophylaxis against them and treatment.

 

Course Objectives :

On completion of this course the student will be able to :

1- To understand a good idea about the science of microbiology.

2-                 To know an idea about structure, staining and types of bacteria.

3-                 To know and idea about infection and their types including bacterial and viral diseases.

4-                 Understand a chapter about immunology.

5-                 To deal with the antimicrobial agents are studied during this course with some details.

6-                 Virology is studded shortly with concentration on common viral diseases like poliomyelitis, inflate, German measles & AIDA .

7-                 To read a chapter about the most common protozoal infection in Gaza including toxoplasma gondii, Entaoemba histolytic and Guard lamblia.

8-                 Lastly, recently we had added a chapter about fungi and fungal infection to the course to cover the external and internal human infection with fungi.

 

Teaching method:

 

Only lectures.

 

 

 

Evaluation:

Queses                                    10%

Midterm exam                       30%

Final exam                              60%

                                   

Expectation:

The students are expected to attend most of  lectures, passing successfully all exams.

 

Course Outline :

1-                 History of microbiology.

2-                 Introduction about microorganisms.

3-                 Bacterial morphology, structures multiplication and staining.

4-                 Destruction of bacteria.

5-                 Infection.

6-                 Immunology.

7-                 Antimicrobial agents.

8-                 Bacterial diseases.

9-                 Virology and viral diseases.

10-            Protozoa and protozoal diseases.

11-            Superficial and deep mycosis.

 

With my best wishes