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Mr. Vita Patrick

The course covers the mechanisms of degradation of concrete structures, and it largely provides the students with the relevant knowledge of available techniques and their application for strengthening and/or upgrading existing structural systems. The course also provides how to conduct field monitoring and non-destructive evaluation of concrete structures.

On a further/broader perspective, this course outlines the basic concepts and methods of the life-cycle management including conceptual/basic design, detailed design including service life design, and maintenance and rehabilitation for civil infrastructure. Firstly, objectives, functions and performance requirements for infrastructure will be discussed including selection of types and materials, performance verification and service life prediction at the basic/conceptual and detailed design stages. Then, maintenance procedures after construction will be covered including inspection, prediction, assessment, and interventions. Finally, the management methodologies are focused on how structural performance is ensured with the coordination of design and maintenance and how decision is made on interventions. Life-cycle cost analysis and environmental impact analysis will be dealt with as the indicators for decision making.

This course is designed to enable students acquire knowledge and skills needed to effectively utilize information systems and technology in to support of organizational strategy. Management information systems (MIS) is very relevant in project management. The course exposes learners to modern skills for a public administration. This course helps learners to be able to generate and organize data on project inputs and outputs; such information is useful in measuring and improving project performance both in the short and long term. This course helps students see the connection between information systems (IS) and organizational performance. The use of information and communication technologies (ICT) by individuals and organizations dominates the new public management reforms. There is a fundamental change going on in the way that organizations run businesses and interact with each other on a consistent basis. New types of infrastructure and applications are developed and utilized such as ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), IOS (Inter-Organizational Systems), RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), and CRM (Customer Relationship Management) among other

Mr. Ogen M Cosmas

Medical Sociology is a concept that seeks to help students understand medicine from a holistic approach. In other words, medical sociology provides a complementary non-biomedical perspective to medical practice. It explores the covert impact of the social, psychological and emotional aspects on the health and well being of an individual or a group of people. This will includes  the following:

1. The social dynamics of health, i.e., social determinants of health
2. The psychological dynamics of health, i.e., the psychological determinants of health
3. The emotional dynamics, i.e., the emotional determinants of health

The above dynamics will be explained in their relationship with the medical determinants of health.

In its complementary role, medical sociology helps the medical practitioner to engage the patient beyond prescriptive approach to include non-prescriptive interventions that may positively impact the health outcomes of an individual.

It also provides an opportunity for the medical student to consider other branches of medicine which may not necessarily be within a health facility setting but may involve other aspects like public health or research and design of health interventions for communities. Though not a core course, yet it provides some insight into what alternatives may be open after medical school.

INTRODUCTION

This course introduces a holistic approach to mental health nursing by applying the models of promotion, prevention and care in diverse settings. It explores personal and cultural perceptions, values and beliefs regarding mental illness. It is designed to facilitate your understanding of common mental health disorders, aetiology, presentation and across the life span and your learning in the therapeutic nursing care of the patient with mental health problems using an evidenced based approach.  It discusses the need and relevance of community mental health care in Uganda while stressing the role of the nurse in providing support to clients and their families to cope with mental illness.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

1.            Describe the theoretical basis of mental health and psychiatric nursing

2.            Demonstrate critical thinking by applying the nursing process and Gordons Functional Health Patterns to provide safe, culturally appropriate, patient‐centered care to clients with mental health problems.

3.            Demonstrate therapeutic communication techniques, including counselling and teaching patients and families, in the mental health setting.

4.            Demonstrate qualities and behaviors of the professional nurse in psychiatric settings (inpatient, outpatient and psychiatric rehabilitation)

5.            Describe the role of community nurse in community mental health promotion, prevention and rehabilitation.

LECTURE SCHEDULE

 COURSE GRADING

RESOURCE MATERIALS

 1.                  Boyd AM (2017) Psychiatric nursing: Contemporary practice (6^th ed)Walters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams and Wilkins

2.                  Schultz J.M and Videbeck, S.L( 2013) Lippincott’s Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans(9^th Ed) Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

3.                  Videbeck, S. L (2020). Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing. (8^th ed) Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

4.                  American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Arlington, VA: Author