Nursing

Introduction to foundations of nursing as a profession including nursing roles, values, and practices. Explores concepts of wellness, health, and illness within the context of the profession of nursing, primary health care and the Canadian Health Care System .

Explores the experiences of people living with chronic conditions and the impact on their capacity to achieve well-being. Examines nursing therapeutics to support and enhance well-being.

Explores social, physical, emotional, and intellectual aspects of health, wellness and illness within the framework of primary health care. NOTE: Students cannot receive credit for both NURS 1225 and KIN 1081.

Within various clinical settings, explores the concepts of wellness, health, and illness within the framework of primary health care. 

Addresses physical and psychosocial assessment throughout the lifespan. Includes lab experiences.

Explores the helping relationship within the context of nursing practice. Students will develop counseling skills. Includes required labs and/or tutorials.

Includes theory and principles of pharmacology as they apply to nursing. Provides requisite knowledge to administer medications, provide patient education, and assess potential for adverse events related to drug and lifestyle issues. Theory will include basic legal and safety issues related to drug administration by the nurse. 

Focuses on the impact/influences of long term health challenges on clients. Examines rehabilitative and supporting nursing practice.

Explores the experiences of persons living with mental illness and examines related nursing therapeutics.

Explores the factors influencing the ability of young families to achieve health as they define it. Covers the processes involved in establishing and maintaining health of young families particularly as they undergo transitions such as childbearing.

Focuses on promoting the health of childbearing families. Encompasses the childbearing experience.

Builds on the concepts of professional nursing practice gained in Practical Nurse curricula expanding knowledge and practice to the scope of the entry-level Registered Nurse. This course will focus on the communication, professional identity and social justice abilities with the BN curriculum. Particular emphasis on role transition, academic writing and evidence informed practice. 

Using a case-based approach across the life span, builds on assessment, data collection, pharmacotherapeutics and clinical decision making of Licensed Practical Nurses. Specific attention will be paid to the abilities of knowledge and its application and critical thinking and skills of analysis within the BN curriculum. Frameworks for recognizing and responding to changes in a client's condition will be introduced (anticipatory thinking).

Focuses on the role of the nurse in the community and public health nursing, using the population health framework. Addresses principles of community assessment and development, program planning, and other strategies that are supported through a population health perspective, with particular emphasis on populations, and social, political and economic determinants of health.

In this clinical practice experience, students will have the opportunity to care for clients and families in acute care environments.

Critically examines the purpose, processes, and utilization of nursing research. Explores the interaction between theory and evidence-informed practice.

Explores the experiences of families living with complex health challenges from a population health perspective. Focuses on nursing therapeutics with further development of independent clinical judgement and decision making appropriate to primary health care.

Explores the client's experience of complex health challenges. Examines related nursing therapeutics with an emphasis on clinical judgment and decision making.

A preceptored clinical experience developed in collaboration with the student.

Explores trends in the Nursing Profession. Examines organizational theory and leadership roles of nurses. Explores the foundations of professional development and practice.