Philadelphia University
Faculty of Nursing
Growth and Development
First Semester/ 2011/2012
Course Syllabus
Course Title: Growth and Development
Course code: 930312
Course prerequisite(s) and/or corequisite(s):
Course Level: 3rd year
All courses of 1st &2nd years
Lecture Time: 3 hrs/weeks
Credit hours: 3 hrs/weeks
Academic Staff Specifics
Office
Name
Rank
Number and
Office Hours
E-mail Address
Location
Sunday,
Dr. abdul-
Assistant (third floor)
Monim Batiha Professor
2119
Thursday,
abatiha@philadelphia.edu.jo
Tuesday
abatiha@gmail.com
9-11 am,
Course Description :
This course provides students with the basic knowledge about human growth and development,
which enable them to understand and assess the normal process of human growth and
development throughout the life cycle, as well as normal problems and needs during different
stages of human life.
Course objectives :
At the end of this course the students will be able to:
1.Describe essential facts related to growth and development.
2.Outline the normal phases of human growth through out the life span.
3.Understand developmental theories related to growth and development.
4.Describe the physical, cognitive, psychological and moral changes that take place during
different stages (from prenatal to old ages).
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5.Identify the major biological, psychosocial, cognitive, spiritual and adaptive development
during stages of development from infancy to older age.
6.Discuss the role of the peer group in the socialization of the early childhood, school age, and
adolescent.
7.Outline a health teaching plan for preschool, school age, adolescent, and adult.
8.Identify health promotion topics, causes and preventive aspects of injuries and accidents from
young adult hood through out old
Teaching Methods:
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Interactive Lecture, discussion group , tutorials , problem solving, Reading Assignment,
Seminar presentation
Learning Outcomes:
After completion of this course the student will be able to:
A. Knowledge and Understanding
1. Understand development stages according to major theorists.
2. Understand principle of growth and development.
3. Explain factors that affect growth and development.
4. Construct a concept map to organize, synthesize, and summarize concepts of child
development and their relationship to one another.
B. Cognitive Skills (thinking and analysis)
1.
Assess a child to determine the stage of development the child has reached.
2.
Utilize modeling and role-modeling, nursing process.
3.
develop charts that synthesizes and summarizes information on the physical
development
4.
Use critical thinking to analyze factors that influence growth and development
and ways strengthen path to achieving a new developmental stage.
C. Professional Skills
1.
Describe milestones in child's development.
2.
Identify and examine specific behaviors of development based on personal
observations.
D. Transferable Skills
1.
Evaluate growth condition, which are appropriate & suitable with peers &
siblings.
2.
Explore, learn about important developmental psychological principles and to
apply these principles in understanding their own respective growth and development.
Assessment instruments:
 Short presentation
 Quizzes
 Homework assignments
 Final examination.
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Allocation of Marks
Assessment Instruments
Mark
First examination 17/11/2011
Second examination 22/12/2011
Reports, research projects, quizzes, homework,
projects/
Final Exam (written exam) 16/1/2012
Total
20%
20%
20%
40%
100%
Documentation and Academic Honesty
 Documentation style
- Submit your home work covered with a sheet containing your name, number, course title
and number, and type and number of the home work (e.g. tutorial, assignment, and project).
Any completed homework must be handed in on the due date. Submission after the deadline
will lead to one grade decrease in the score of the home work for each delayed day in
addition to decrease in score of professional behavior. After the deadline “zero” will be
awarded. You must keep a duplicate copy of your work because it may be needed while the
original is being marked.
 Protection by Copyright
1. Course work, reports, and essays submitted for assessment must be your own work, unless
in the case of group projects a joint effort is expected and is indicated.
2. Use of quotations or data from the work of others is entirely acceptable, and is often very
valuable provided that the source of the quotation or data is given. Failure to provide a
source or put quotation marks around material that is taken from elsewhere gives the
appearance that the comments are ostensibly your own. When quoting word-for-word from
the work of another person quotation marks or indenting (setting the quotation in from the
margin) must be used and the source of the quoted material must be acknowledged.
3. Sources of quotations used should be listed in full in a bibliography at the end of your
piece of work.

Avoiding Plagiarism.
1. Unacknowledged direct copying from the work of another person, or the close
paraphrasing of somebody else's work, is called plagiarism and is a serious offence, equated
with cheating in examinations. This applies to copying both from other students' work and
from published sources such as books, reports or journal articles.
2. Paraphrasing, when the original statement is still identifiable and has no acknowledgement, is
plagiarism. A close paraphrase of another person's work must have an acknowledgement to
the source. It is not acceptable for you to put together unacknowledged passages from the
same or from different sources linking these together with a few words or sentences of your
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own and changing a few words from the original text: this is regarded as over-dependence on
other sources, which is a form of plagiarism.
3. Direct quotations from an earlier piece of your own work, if not attributed, suggest that your
work is original, when in fact it is not. The direct copying of one's own writings qualifies as
plagiarism if the fact that the work has been or is to be presented elsewhere is not
acknowledged.
4. Plagiarism is a serious offence and will always result in imposition of a penalty. In deciding
upon the penalty the Department will take into account factors such as the year of study, the
extent and proportion of the work that has been plagiarized, and the apparent intent of the
student. The penalties that can be imposed range from a minimum of a zero mark for the
work (without allowing resubmission) through caution to disciplinary measures (such as
suspension or expulsion).
Week
Date
1.
7-11/10/2012
2.
3.
4.
5.
14-18/10/2012
21-25/10/2012
28/10/2012 to
1/11/2012
4-8/11/2012
6.
11-15/11/2012
7.
18-22/11/2012
Basic and support material to be covered
Registration
Introduction to the course syllabus
Identify students with special
circumstances
Principles of growth and development.
Theories of growth and development.
Development from conception to birth
(Zygote to newborn)
Stages of growth & Development:
 Neonatal stage: Birth to
4weeks
Stages of growth & Development
 Infancy stage: 1 to 12
months of age
First Exam
Stages of growth & Development
•
Infancy stage: 1 to 12 months of
age
Stages of growth & Development
* Normal Toddler: 1 to 3 years
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Homework/
Reports
and their
dates
8.
25-29/11/2012
9.
2-6/12/2012
10.
9-13/12/2012
11.
16-20/12/2012
12.
23-27/12/2012
13.
30/12-3/1/2013
14.
15.
16.
6/1-10/1/2013
13/1/-17/1/2013
20/1-24/1/2013
Stages of growth & Development
* Preschool stage: 3 to 5 years
Stages of growth & Development
* Middle childhood (school age) (6 to
12 years)
2nd Exam
Stages of growth & Development
* Adolescent period
Stages of growth & Development
* Young adulthood: 20 to 40 years
old.
Stages of growth & Development
* Middle-aged adults: 40 to 65 years
old.
Stages of growth & Development
* Late adulthood (elderly) adult, over
65 years old.
Loss, Death, & Grief
Revision
Final Exam
* Make-up exams will be offered for valid reasons only with consent of the Dean. Makeup exams may be different from regular exams in content and format.
Expected Workload
On average you should expect to spend at least (2) hours per week on this module.
Attendance Policy:
- Absence from lectures and/or tutorials shall not exceed 15%.
- Absence will lead to decrease in the score of professional behavior & score of discussion &
participation.
- In case of absence because of presence of first or second or final exam for any other subject in
the same time, the student must inform the teacher in advance and submit a signed document
from the teacher of other subject reveals this in the day just after absence.
- Students who exceed the 15% limit without a medical or emergency excuse acceptable to and
approved by the Dean of the relevant college/faculty shall not be allowed to take the final
examination and shall receive a mark of zero for the course.
- If the excuse is approved by the Dean, the student shall be considered to have withdrawn from
the
course.
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Text book(s):
Title: Human growth & development
Author(s)/Editor(s): Diane E. Papalla, Sally Wendkas Olds
Publisher: 2001
McKinney, E.S. & James, S.R. & Murray, S.S. & Ashwill J.W. (2005) Maternal-Child Nursing. (2nd
ed.) St. Louis: Elsevier, Saunders.
Appendix, References:
Students will be expected to give the same attention to these references as given to
the Module textbook(s)
1. Neil,M.&Peter,J (2004): Textbook of Pediatric Nursing 6th edition
2. Marlow, Doroth,R. (2001):Text Book of Pediatric Nursing
Website(s):
http://www.philadelphia.edu.jo/nursing/resources.html
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