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Basic first Aid, Principles of Nursing, general and special preparation, General and special care, professional attitude of the Radiographer. Hygiene. Infection and Principles of Asepsis Special and Emergency Care of the Patient. Use of Hospital and Nursing Equipment. Moving and lifting. Drugs, Hospital Practice: The Radiographer in the hospital team. Medico-Legal aspects. Health Services Organisation and Management. Professional Ethics. Nursing procedures; Understanding the recipients of patient’s care; Concepts and basic care of patients; emergency situations and first aid treatment. Principles of asepsis and infection. Assessment of vital signs. Documentation and Reporting. Hospital posting weekly for ward/clinical/hospital experience in nursing/care of patients. Nursing Posting to familiarise themselves with the use of some basic Hospital and Nursing Equipment. Posting for twelve weeks to recognised and relevant placement areas of their choice during the industrial training. Continuous assessment of students will be undertaken jointly by their industry- based supervisors, ITF officials and institutional supervisors. Presentation of a seminar on major duties performed and skills acquired during the training.

Scope of Pharmacology. Origin and sources of drugs, routes of administration of drugs, drug receptors and receptor isolation. Pharmacokinetics, absorption of drugs excretion, biotransformation. Structure-activity relationship. Mode of action of drugs. Types of drug action. Drug action in man-compliance, individual variations, presence of other drugs, genetic effects, tolerance and tachyphylaxis, effects of diseases, drug toxicity adverse drug reactions, drug dependence and drug interactions. Antimicrobial Pharmacology chemotherapeutic agents, anti- metabolic base analogues, mitotic inhibitors, antibiotics, enzymes, alkylating agents and hormones. Radiation therapy, immune therapy and cancer therapy, synthesis and physiology of neurotransmitters Biochemical basis of depression. Marcotics-Mechanism of action. Fluorescent, radio and chromatographic methods in drug studies. Methods of evaluation of toxins mutagens and carcinogens. 400 Level

Fundamental and derived quantities and units. Equation of motion, concepts of force work energy, power, momentum energy conservation. Fields, Electrostatics, Physical Factors governing capacitance, charging and discharging capacitor and their uses in Radiological Equipment, basic x-ray circuitry and many others. Basic computer Architecture and peripherals. Electromagnetic and Electromagnetic induction, Lenz laws, Mutual and Self-induction. principles and construction of the transformer. Transformer Parameters, uses of mutual and self-inductance in autotransformers and High Tension transformers, AC theory and sources of electric power supply. current electricity, solid state devices, Rectification, principles and uses in Radiology, concept of energy. Atomic structure, Bohr’s atom elements of quantum mechanics applied to atom, Heisenberg’s uncertainty theory, de Broglie wavelength, Schrodinger equation and configuration of atoms. The nuclear structure and models, nuclear instability and radioactivity, Wave and Quantum methods of Energy Transfer and applications in radiology, production of X-rays, Radioactivity and radioactive decay, half-life, counters, units of activity and measurement, K- capture. The atom, isotopes, isobars, isomers, nuclear binding energies, and inverse square law, effects of filtration. Luminescence and their applications. Interaction of radiation (emr and particulate radiation) with matter and their applications in medical imaging and radiotherapy. Attenuation of radiation shielding and filtration.

Hetero-specific associations among animals; Types of parasitism; parasites and their hosts; The effects of parasitism on the parasite and host; Distribution of parasites in a host population; Factors influencing parasite density and distribution; Host-parasite specificity; the species problem and the evolution of parasitism in the animal kingdom

Audiological tests such as pure tone audiometry (air/bone conduction), masking technique in pure tone audiometry (PTA). Tympanometry and acoustic reflex tests, otoscopic examination, tuning fork tests, auditory brain-stem response test, oto-acoustic emission test, speech audiometry, vestibular investigations (calorics, VENG) and many others. Behavioural audiometric test- distraction test, cooperative test, performance test, speech discrimination test, visual reinforcement audiometry, weight and vital signs measurement. The general principles underlying treatment in audiologic condition, neurologic, hearing condition and rehabilitation in general.

Pure tone audiometry (air/bone conduction). Masking techniques in pure tone audiometry (PTA) Tympanometry, acoustic reflex and Eustachian Tube Dysfunction tests. Manual and Video Otoscopic examination. Tuning fork tests. Auditory brain-stem response test. Oto-acoustic emission test. Speech audiometry (Speech Reception/Discrimination tests). Sensitivity prediction by acoustic reflex (SPAR) test. Comfortable loudness and uncomfortable loudness level tests. Auditory fatigue test. Test of Malingering. Vestibular tests (Optokinetic, Calorics, Gaze, Pendulum, Dix-Hallpike manouvre, Video-electronystagmography, Tracking, Saccade, Cervical vestibular electro-myogenic potential (cVEMPS) tests) etc. Behavioural audiometric test-distraction test, Cooperative test. Performance test. McCormick speech discrimination test. Visual reinforcement audiometry.

Structure of woods and its influence on wood properties; gross characteristics of wood; macro and microscopic features of hardwoods. Wood and water interactions. General consideration of physical and mechanical properties of wood. Identifications of Nigeria wood at the macroscopic level.

Statistical data: types, sources and methods of collection. Presentation of data: tables, chart and graphs. Errors and approximations. Frequency and cumulative distributions, measures of location, partition, dispersion, skewness and kurtosis. Rates, ratios and index numbers. Permutation and combination. Concepts and principles of probability, random variables, probability and distribution functions. Basic distributions: Binomial, geometric, Poisson, normal and sampling distributions and exploratory data analysis. 200 Level

Basic principles and methods used in ranging, chaining, off-setting, measurement of tie and check lines. Principles and methods used in chain surveying. Carrying out measurements and plotting of chain survey of an area. Sources of errors, corrections and accuracy attainable in chain surveying. Principles and methods used in compass surveys. Collection of field data, processing of data and production of plan at suitable scale in compass surveying. Principles and methods, field observations, computations, sources/correction of errors and production of plans at suitable scale in plane tabling.

General introduction to various aspects of surveying, use of simple survey equipment; principles and practice of chain surveying, compass traversing. Introduction to survey draughtsmanship.