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

         Course Description

    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

         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. 13:40-15:30  Course Code: 1785

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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

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. 08:10-10:00  Course Code: 0400

         Course Description

This course is to enhance students' basic knowledge of the patient safety concept and to understand what competencies of patient safety they should have. Through the design of clinical patient safety issues case study, students will be able to utilize the knowledge of patient safety to provide holistic care. This course also fosters students to have a positive attitude towards on patient safety issues, learn to share the experience of patient safety issues, and build lifelong learning habits and competence for new knowledge of patient safety.

Period: Mon. 13:40-15:30  Course Code: 1447

         Course Description

    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

         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 psychologi

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

         Course Description

    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

         Course Description

    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: 0822

         Course Description

   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

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

         Course Description

    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: Mon13:40-14:30 Course  Code: 0292

         Course Description

    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.  13:40-15:30  Course  Code: 1668

         Course Description

 This course explores the theories and applications of psychology in fitness and exercise, aiming to cultivate an in-depth understanding of exercise psychology among students. Topics include motivation, stress management, self-efficacy, and team dynamics, with a focus on discussing empirical research. Students will learn how to apply psychological theories to enhance athletic performance and improve fitness motivation. The course also involves group research projects and case studies, fostering Individual research skills and critical thinking. This course is ideal for students interested in pursuing research in exercise psychology or related fields.

Period: Fri. 10:10-12:00   Course  Code: 1900

         Course Description

    This course is designed to enable students to understand the physiological adaptions and mechanisms that occur during various intensities and duration of exercise. The curriculum includes the selection and presentation of literature to enhance students' expertise in exercise guidance. Additionally, the course covers concepts and training methods related to physical fitness and athletic performance.

Period: Thurs.   13:40-15:30 Course  Code: 1345

         Course Description

    This course equips students with hands-on skills in multimedia design and interactive technologies applied to exercise and sports training. Students will gain proficiency in tools such as Canva, Google Sites, and LINE Bot, learning to integrate multimedia and gamification strategies to boost exercise engagement and motivation. The curriculum covers digital methods for creating exercise prescriptions and the application of marketing techniques to effectively promote fitness programs.

Period: Tue. 10:10-12:00 Course  Code: 1905

         Course Description

 This course trains students in the conduct of scientific research and provides methodologies for such research. It includes rigorously identifying research questions, proposing solutions, collecting and analyzing data. The course culminates with an introduction to writing research reports and dissertations.

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

         Course Description

This course delves into advanced research and practices in the fields of exercise and health science as well as health technology, encompassing core knowledge and applications in exercise physiology, sports nutrition, sports psychology, and training. By integrating theoretical learning with practical applications, students will master the use of scientific methods to assess, design, and implement exercise programs that enhance health and athletic performance. The curriculum emphasizes interdisciplinary learning, aiming to cultivate critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and a global perspective, thereby preparing students for careers in the global exercise and health science industry. Additionally, the course provides an overview of health technology, covering a wide range of topics such as digital health, mobile applications, wearable technology, health information systems, telemedicine, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and big data. Students will learn to evaluate the opportunities and challenges associated with these technologies and explore their effectiveness in improving public health and healthcare worldwide, with particular focus on the application of digital health in exercise prescription. Featuring case studies on the use of immersive interactive training devices, the course illustrates how digital health technologies can be effectively to devise exercise plans, offering optimal solutions for exercise program design.

Period: Mon  13:40-15:30 Course  Code: 1898

         Course Description

    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

         Course Description

    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

         Course Description

The course covers multiple data science methods focused on collecting, organizing, and analyzing data and communicates analytical results. Students will learn how to use R packages to acquire, clean, and organize data; develop numerical and graphical displays.

Period: Mon. 10:10-12:00  Course  Code: 1855

         Course Description

This course incorporates the introduction of healthcare and basic theory of artificial intelligence. We will explore the application of AI in healthcare,
which can cultivate students’ capacity of knowledge, innovation, and interdisciplinary thinking. Students can apply the AI in many fields.

Period: Mon. 13:40-16:30  Course  Code: 0229

         Course Description

This course is designed to help students understand the application of statistics. Including data collection, probability theory, sampling allocation, estimation and confidence intervals; in the second half of the semester, the focus will be on cultivating the ability to propose research hypotheses. This course also teaches students to use various methods to test hypotheses, including chi-square test, t- test, variation analysis, simple regression analysis Students will explore concepts, principles, models and methods related to statistics through course lectures, discussions, homework and study exams.

Period: Wed. 09:10-12:00  Course  Code: 0044

         Course Description

    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

         Course Description

    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

         Course Description

    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

         Course Description

    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