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Human growth and development from conception through childhood and adolescence to old age. Erikson’s developmental tasks for different stages of life. Theories of Learning. Psychology of Learning and the nurse. The nature and structure of intelligence. Individual differences. Environment and behaviour. Determinants of human health behaviour. Attitudes. Psychological influence on health and illness. Care and coping strategies in illness situations especially for children, adolescents and the elderly.

Fundamental principles of Diet therapy. History, aims, scope and roles of dietitians. Introduction to different diets (fluid diet, soft diet low residual diet and many others.) Dietary management in disease states (gastro intestinal disorders, various DR-NCDs including Diabetes hypertension and many others.) consideration of factors in patients care plan, coordinated nutritional services for patients, therapeutic adaptation of the normal diet and problems of planning therapeutic diets using local foods. Principles or nutritional modification for the underweight, acute malnutrition (moderate or severe SAM/MAM), nutrient need in surgery – postoperative nutritional care following gastrointestinal tract surgery; study of the diet for the vulnerable groups, diarrhoea in infants; oral rehydration. Use of food exchange list. Nutritional care process. Critical care.

The course deals with the planning, preparation and presentation of various therapeutic diets such as standard/normal, fluid, soft, low/high residue, gastric, low calorie, diabetic, high protein, low protein, low salt, low fat, low purine, acid ash/alkaline diets. The practical is based on management of the various non-communicable nutrition-related diseases. Case studies using Nutrition Care Process Approach to Manage Patients.

Computer devices, Data collection, Evidence Collection, Extraction and preservation of evidence, Data Recovery, Evidence preservation, verification & authentication, Data Discovery & Identification, Data Analysis, Computer Forensics Tools, Data Hiding Techniques, Computer forensics and mobile forensics.

Definition of terms. Types/ classification of digital prosthodontics. Materials and equipment in digital prosthodontics. Applications and indications for CAD-CAM. Prerequisites for dental CAD- CAM success. Restorative materials for dental CAD-CAM system. scanning devices. Computer- assisted designs and Computer-assisted manufacturing.

Definitions and descriptions of disease, deformity, disability, habilitation and rehabilitation. Common causes of long term disabilities – autism, poliomyelitis, cerebral palsy, spinal cord and head injuries, mental retardation and many others. Differences and relationships between the concepts of community rehabilitation and community-based rehabilitation for people with long term disability. Community reintegration post disability. Psychosocial issues – discrimination, deprivation, isolation, mental health, family finance. Care setting. Participation in the society – schooling, access to private and public facilities, transportation, occupation, participation in sports and recreational activities. Policies, advocacies related to disability. Comparison of disability issues such as legislation, enforcement and implementation of relevant promulgations and conventions in Nigeria and other parts of the world.

History of diseases classification. Basis and purpose of disease classification. Definition of data classification, aims and objectives of data classification. General principles of International Classification of Diseases (ICD) process. Structure of ICD and special coding pattern in the ICD, dual classification of certain diagnostic statements in the ICD. The numbering system of the ICD, the three digit categories –ICD-9, the operational fifth digits – ICD -9 and the Alphanumeric of the ICD-10, Seventeen chapters of the ICD-9, Supplementary classification of the ICD 9 (E- codes, V-codes, M- codes). Classification of industrial accidents and many others. the twenty-one chapters of ICD-10 and its arrangement. Measuring coding and coding procedure, procedures in surgical operations (major and minor). The structure of the surgical index method of the KD- 9CM Vol. 3 (procedure class) and ICD-10 Vol. 3. The procedure for coding surgical operations and other procedures, the similarities and differences between ICD 9CM Vol. 3 and |ICD 10pcs and ICD -10 Vol. 3, tools needed for coding surgical operations. Define index purpose for indexing uses of disease and operation index, information deeded for index cards. Indexing system: design index cards, storage. Maintenance and retention simple and cross indexing system, multiple card system, methods of monitoring discharged patients’ records. Code diseases and surgical procedures, abstract and index: diseases and surgical procedure, external causes of injuries (Encode), factors influencing health status and contract with health services (V code), morphology and neoplasm. Traditional and computerised approaches to indexing, abstracting, thesaurus construction and maintenance are explained. The nature and structure of indexes, indexing and editing procedures, types of indexes, index-evaluation and professionalism construction of abstract technique 300 Level courses

Presentation of a paper by each student on an approved topic at a Departmental colloquium.

Introduction: Medicines and discovery processes. Initial stages: Target discovery; applications of molecular biology, in silico methods and assays; lead discovery; lead optimization; biomarkers. Measurement of drug properties: assay techniques; agonists (full, partial, inverse and biased); competitive antagonists. In vivo models; pharmacokinetic profiles of compounds; pharmacogenetics and formulations. Pre-clinical safety assessment including acute toxicity evaluation, subacute and chronic toxicity studies, reproductive toxicity, carcinogenicity studies, mutagenicity and mechanistic toxicity studies. Limitations of preclinical studies. Problems associated with drug discovery and development. Later stages: Pharmaceutical development; phases of clinical evaluation; ethics (informed consent, good clinical practice, participation criteria, sponsorship) and concepts in clinical trial design. Pharmacovigilance. e-Learning Activity Links are provided to additional resources (further reading, videos, on-line activities) to support the lecture content. Online self-assessment modules on the course content can be provided for formative feedback. Practical: Experiments are designed to reflect the topics covered including spectrophotometry, chromatography, flow cytometry.

Definitions and nature of dysphagia (swallowing or feeding difficulty). Causes and symptoms of dysphagia. Understanding the brain damage underpin of dysphagia. Speech-language challenges of aphasia. Assessment and classification of motor/neural disorders. Management and treatment of dysphagia patients. Therapies for rehabilitating speech-language skills. Feeding exercise for dysphagia patients. Definitions and nature of aphasia. Causes and symptoms of aphasia. Assessment of aphasia patients. Therapies for aphasia patients.