Course Description

    This course assists students in understanding current state of nursing practice and increasing their communication skills in English. Due to the experiences of having clinical practice at the Alhambra Hospital Medical Center, they will be able to understand the differences in health care delivery systems between others countries and Taiwan and, finally, to enrich their visions in nursing.

Course Code: 0338

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    The purposes of this course are to help students to gain the basic knowledge, concepts and standardized behavior of nursing ethics, to distinguish clinical ethical issues, as well as the ability to analyze and make decisions of ethical dilemma in order to urge them to develop critical thinking and proper judgment. The concepts of this course focus on the ethical basic concepts and the application of ethical principles: including the analysis and discussion of ethics and moral concepts; the formation and conflicts of values, the rights and responsibilities of patients and nurses; the cooperational relationships of medical team; application the main theories and principles of ethics; nursing code, ethical dilemma, and the ethical decision framework.

Period:  Thurs. 10:10-12:00    Course Code: 0305

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This course aims to improve the students’ the basic English conversation in ordinary health care encounters . The teaching design focuses on English texts and ER DVD as supplementary teaching materials, and adopts goal orientation to create motivation and confidence for students to "speak" English via group interaction and repeated practice of English conversation. Through this course, the students will be able to enhance their interest and ability in English in terms of "listening" and "speaking" used in daily life health care situations, and then develop a habit of lifelong learning attitude in mastering English competency.

Period: Mon. 13:40-15:30  Course Code: 1751

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    This course aims to cultivate students' reading, writing and reporting skills in English academic literature in the field of health care. The course content includes academic literature search, article structure appreciation, writing skills, essay writing, and oral report publishing. After completing this course, students will be able to improve their academic English writing and presentation skills, motivation and confidence in international health care situations, and cultivate their lifelong learning attitude and ability to actively study and report international nursing professional English literature.

Period: Mon. 10:10-12:00  Course Code: 1785

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    Biostatistics plays an essential role in all stages of a quantitative health care research from design through to analysis and interpretation. This course covers the essential principles and methods required for a master degree. Emphasis is on study design, appropriate analysis, software application (SPSS) and interpretation of results. The underlying concepts of statistical analysis are covered. Sessions include lectures and practical work, both computer-based and using small workshops for discussion.
The course aims to teach health care researchers the essential elements of research methodology and statistics. The focus is mainly on interpretation and understanding appropriate methodology.

Period: Wed. 09:10-12:00 Course Code: 0617

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    The purpose of the course is to advance students’ physical assessment theory and skills that related to professional clinical nursing practice. The content of the course is emphasized on application skills of client interview, physiological and psychologi

Period: Thurs.  13:40-17:30  Course Code: 0618

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    This course examines several nursing concepts and their applications to the current health care environment including practice, education, administration, and research. Students begin to recognize the nature of science and its relationships to theories in nursing. Through discussion, lecture, and specially designed projects, students will learn the philosophy and background of a theorist and her/his theory and develop skills in analyzing health care issue, particularly those with relevance to nursing.

Period: Fri.   10:10-12:00  Course Code: 0616

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    This course is designed to prepare nurses for specialization in midwifery practice. Role change and nurse midwifery as a primary health care are the course. The content includes: (1) family-centered approach to care; (2) promotion and maintenance of health for women and the family during low risk child bearing and the child rearing period; (3) conducting health management for the women in labor and the family; and (4) promotion of health for childbearing stage women.

Period: Mon. 09:10-12:00 Course  Code: 0288

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    This course aims to collaborate with a foreign university for a 25-day overseas medical and healthcare education and digital learning practicum. The purpose is to understand the development of international medical and nursing education, as well as the challenges and coping strategies of promoting learning technology in different cultures. The entire practicum process will guide students to understand the current situation and opportunities for implementing digital learning in different cultural contexts through interdisciplinary collaboration and cultural experiences. This will serve as a reference for future development of digital teaching plans and materials, and further promote the cultivation of seed teachers for transnational medical and nursing education through digital learning.

Course  Code: 1852

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    This course assists students in understanding current state of the gerontological health care oversea and increasing students’ communication skills in English and multicultural ability. Due to the experiences of having clinical practice in other countries, they will be able to understand the differences in gerontological health care delivery systems between Taiwan and other countries to enrich their vision.

Course  Code: 0338

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    This course is a basic course to educate students to have enough knowledge about information literacy and network application. The course will include the basic concept of computers, operating systems, office application software, network applications, information security, and intellectual property concepts.

Period: Mon.  15:40-17:30 Course  Code: 0213

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    This course attempts to help students realize the research topics on information management. Students will gain some ideas about their future research through this course. All the students must choose three academic papers in the fields of information technology and information management. They need to read the chosen papers and share opinions with their classmates in the class. Experts from various areas of information management will also be invited to give lectures.

Period: Thurs.16:40-17:30 Course  Code: 0292

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    The purpose of this course is to introduce and analyze the main theories and models of health behavior. Several significant theories and models (e.g., Health Belief Model, Theory of Planned Behavior, Transtheoretical Model) will be discussed. By reading materials and in-class discussion, it is expected that students not only comprehend theories and models but also know how to apply them.

Period: Wed.  13:40-15:30   Course  Code: 0670

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    This course aims to understand the nature of customer relationships and identify key customer emotions and to effectively interact with customers and maintaining customer relationships through theoretical perspectives. Students can learn about the benefits or problems caused from different customer relationships through practices and examples of customer relationships. In addition, students learn how to improve positive emotional feelings, reduce negative emotional interference, and extend this learning experience to future internships and workplace applications.

Period: Tues. 15:40-17:30  Course  Code: 1668

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    This course introduces the definition, the concepts of ecotourism and what can be considered as ecotourism. Through the lectures, practices and discussions, students would understand the trends, related regulations and policies, and the operational process, and the current issues in ecotourism.

Period: Thurs.13:40-15:30  Course  Code: 1298

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    Sports training is an increasingly important area of sports science, and this course provides accessible and up-to-date coverage of this key topic. Modern coaches need to be applied scientists who keep abreast of research and are able to apply a multidisciplinary understanding to their practice. The course therefore examines training/coaching in terms of biomechanics, physiology and psychology, as well as perennial issues such as athlete motivation, nutrition, design of training programmes, talent identification, monitoring and ethics.

Period: Mon. 13:40-15:30   Course  Code: 1710

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    This course is designed to discuss the differences between alternative complementary medicine and current western medicine. For example, the traditional Chinese medicine and herb medicine have already been gradually accepted, and we will guide students to read and search current scientific literatures that support the therapeutic benefits of alternative complementary medicine. Also, students will learn the benefit of exercise training, sport injury, mechanical stress and injury during sport or physical activity, and prevention of sport injury through reading the related scientific journals. The scientific supports and current development for alternative and rehabilitation sport medicine will be covered in this course.

Period: Thurs. 13:40-15:30 Course  Code: 1350

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    Through the introduction of sorts of concepts involving with reading, writing, listening and speaking teaching and learning to students, also gradually building up the students’ abilities to collect, analyze and assemble the teaching materials through the design of lesson plans to present the young kids wonderful and cultural English programs.

Period: Thurs. 15:40-17:30 Course  Code: 0214

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    This course proposes students can understand current research and application on life and death, explorate death trajectories from medical, social, religious and ethic perspections, recognize how death to affect personal behavior, ritual about death and its reflection on social organization. The expectation of this try to help students have positive recognition and attitude on death.

Period: Thurs. 08:10-10:00  Course  Code: 1075

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    The main purpose of this course is to help students understand the current situation of international healthcare practice and increase their ability related to international healthcare practice. Through the international healthcare practice learning experience of taking courses (studies), traineeships, and visits to international healthcare institutions, the students can understand the differences between international and Taiwan healthcare systems and education models.

Period: Wed. 12:40-14:30  Course  Code: 1859

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    This course is aimed to consider the application of epidemiological concepts and methods to health care, planning, intervention and evaluation and to facilitate and develop skills of epidemiology into different community and clinical settings. The course content includes introduction to epidemiology, the nature history of disease, measuring and monitoring health and disease, types of epidemiological study, confounders and biases. By the end of this course, students should have: (a)developed an appreciation of the advantages and limitations of epidemiology in assessing health needs, determining priorities, establishing interventions and evaluating these; (b)consolidated their understanding of applied epidemiological concepts and methods, relating these to health problems in both community and clinical settings, and (c)participated actively in debates concerning the value of epidemiological evidence in health policy decision-making and considered how this might apply to health problems with which the course participant may be concerned.

Period: Mon.10:10-12:00  Course Code: 0034

         Course Description

The course aims to provide introductory content in global health related issues useful for baccalaureate level of students who interests in the era of globalization, regardless of whether they personally plan to live or work. The themes introduced include global health issues, health foci in different aggregates which include children, women, adolescents, elderly and aboriginal health problem across geographic regions, communicable disease. Students will examine international documents that have the potential to impact health, and non-governmental organizations.

Period: Mon. 08:10-10:00  Course Code: 0400

         Course Description

    This course aims to cultivate students' reading, writing and reporting skills in English academic literature in the field of health care. The course content includes academic literature search, article structure appreciation, writing skills, essay writing, and oral report publishing. After completing this course, students will be able to improve their academic English writing and presentation skills, motivation and confidence in international health care situations, and cultivate their lifelong learning attitude and ability to actively study and report international nursing professional English literature.

Period: Mon. 10:10-12:00 Course Code: 1785

         Course Description

    This course introduces the study methods of conducting an investigation for graduate students. This course includes mining a problem, solving the problem, collecting the data for the problem, and analyzing the data. How to writing a report and paper well.

Period: Fri.   09:10-12:00 Course Code: 0067

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    This course provides students with fundamental knowledge necessary to deliver advanced nursing care for adults and children. This course aims to increase students' understanding of the major concepts and related theories of advanced practice nursing. The focus is on the management of specific care issues relevant in adult and children. The roles and function of the advance practice nursing will be integrated throughout the course. Through lectures, discussions, and reports, students will expand their knowledge and competency in managing common health conditions of adults and children complementary to the essence of advanced nursing practice.

Period: Wed.   13:40-16:30  Course Code: 1747

         Course Description

    This course is designed to prepare nurses for specialization in midwifery practice. The high-risk pregnancy family care and the nurse-midwife’s role are the focus of this course. The student will integrate, analyze, and apply theory to the restoration of health in families experiencing health deviations during the childbearing and childrearing period.

Period: Mon.   09:10-12:00  Course  Code: 0824

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    Methods and strategies applicable to nursing research will be examined and evaluated. Criteria will be presented to review research for scientific and clinical merits. The major focus of the course will be the participation of the student in all phases of the research process using a computer to simulate data or to help in the analysis an actual data set. Emphasis is on understanding research methodology in order to critique research studies and writing a research proposal.

Period: Thurs.   09:10-12:00 Course  Code: 0067

         Course Description

    The purpose of the course is to advance students' physical assessment theory and skills that related to professional clinical nursing practice. The content of the course is emphasized on application skills of client interview, physiological and psychological assessment, interpreting results in women throughout the life span. Applying theories and techniques, assessing, analyzing and diagnosing health problems of a selected client will accomplish the course objectives.

Period: Thurs.13:40-17:30 Course  Code: 0618

         Course Description

    In long-term care settings, ineffective communication leads to confusion,frustration, and even tension between the family and long-term workers, and also can contribute to undesired outcomes or adverse events of older adults. Part of these communication challenges can be attributed to health literacy of older adults and family caregivers. The health literacy challenges in this context include navigating and understanding long-term services and supports that are available and accessible.It can be extended for referring information asymmetry during care decision making as older persons maintain their health or lifestyle in the community.
To avoid ineffective communication and to ensure quality of care in long-term care settings, it is crucial to bridge the health literacy gap by exposing our students to those contexts and instructing them in proper skills of better communication. During the course, students will work with the instructor to develop communication scenarios in long-term care settings. Students can construct ways of effective communication and learn from how it can be proceeded.

Period: Mon. 13:40-15:30 Course  Code: 1819

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    The main objective of this course is to introduce the concept of Organizational Behavior (OB), such as the definition of OB and why this subject is important to enterprise. Second, the course attempts to stimulate students’ interest in the area of OB, so

Period:  Fri. 13:40-16:30 Course  Code: 0035

         Course Description

    This is an advanced training course for students to become tour guides and interpreters. Students will be trained to cover a variety of tourism resources such as natural resources, ecotourism, and various aspects of local culture, including history, religious beliefs, and etc.. At the end of the course, students will be encouraged to earn the certificates of tour guides and managers.

Period: Thurs. 13:40-15:30   Course  Code: 1768

         Course Description

    The main goal of this course is to introduce the concept and fundamental of sports marketing. Students will utilize marketing theories and apply in the sports industry, for example: type of sports, athletes, sports teams, and sports venue. This course will also analyze the strategy of sports marketing and put students to an actual practice which is producing a proposal. Therefore, the students will realize the pros and cons of marketing strategies. Eventually, the students will benefit from the course and help them to build their career in the future.

Period: Tues.   08:10-11:00   Course  Code: 0559

         Course Description

    This course is a basic course to educate students to have enough knowledge about information literacy and network application. The course will include the basic concept of computers, operating systems, office application software, network applications, information security, and intellectual property concepts.

Period: Mon.10:10-12:00 Course  Code: 0213

         Course Description

    This course integrates the characteristics of tourism products and tourism patterns, incorporates health concepts and trends in health tourism, explores the interaction between tourism products and health promotion through theoretical frameworks and practical cases, applies concepts of tourism product design and safety protection, and cultivates students' ability to evaluate the safety and health promotion characteristics of tourism products and to plan health tourism products.

Period: Wed.  10:10-12:00  Course  Code: 0065