Courses
Collaborative Nursing-2024/2025
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| TAKE ALL OF THE FOLLOWING MANDATORY COURSES (MINIMUM GRADE 65): | ||||
| NRSG-7105 | N1040A/B Foundational Concepts Prof NRS | 3 | ||
| N1040 Foundational Concepts of Professional Nursing Practices: Students critically examine the historical development of nursing and the framework for Registered Nursing practice, including the philosophical, theoretical, and ethical tenets of the role. Using a variety of theories and conceptual frameworks, students acquire an understanding of how individual values, beliefs, perceptions, and experiences influence perspectives and nursing practice. | ||||
| NRSG-7106 | N1050A/B Academic Prof. Strategies NRSG | 3 | ||
| N1050A/B ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS IN NURSING: Students will acquire strategies to transition into the university and the BScN program which will help them acquire the foundational skills necessary to succeed both academically and in professional nursing practice. | ||||
| NRSG-7107 | N1120a/B Community Care Models of Prac | 3 | ||
| N1120 Community Care Models of Practice: Students critically examine models of care and sources of knowledge in community nursing practice including public health, community home health and primary healthcare. Applying principles of primary healthcare, social justice, and equity students critique how policy, practice, culture and societal norms impact health of the individual, family, community and population. | ||||
| NRSG-7108 | N1190A/B Enact Social Justice & Equity | 3 | ||
| N1190 Enacting Social Justice and Equity in Nursing Practice: Introduction to social determinants of health, social justice and health equity are foundational components in this course. Impacts of policy, politics, power, and privilege are investigated to understand how nursing and the current healthcare system have created historic inequities that continue to disadvantage and marginalize specific populations. The impact of colonizing practices is threaded throughout the course | ||||
| NRSG-7064 | N2240 Health Informatics in Nursing-Intr | 3 | ||
| This course introduces the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for the use of information technology by nurses in relation to client care, health administration, client teaching, nursing education and research. This course was designed to make students aware of professional, legal and ethical issues associated with the use of informatics within nursing. Students will explore the professional application of information technology in nursing education, professional practice and research.This course will extend students' knowledge and skills related to information literacy and knowledge acquisition skills necessary for professional nursing practice. Through active learning, students will determine appropriate knowledge sources for nursing practice. | ||||
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| TAKE ALL OF THE FOLLOWING MANDATORY COURSES (MINIMUM GRADE 60): | ||||
| ANAT-7002 | HS2330A/B Systematic&Functional Anatomy | 3 | ||
| A gross anatomical description of systematic structure and function of the human body. All the major organ systems will be discussed. Emphasis will be on the anatomical structure and how this relates to the histological and physiological functions of the systems. Integration between systems will be discussed using clinical examples. | ||||
| NRSG-7039 | Physiology 1020 Human Physiology | 6 | ||
| This course, Human Physiology, is designed to help you learn the basic facts, concepts and principles that are essential to your understanding of the function of the human body, so that you will be able to use that knowledge to solve physiological problems. Because most of you who are enrolled in this course intend to pursue careers related to health, the course will place some emphasis on clinical correlations with physiology. | ||||
| Year 1 Prof Practice | ||||
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| TAKE THE FOLLOWING MANDATORY COURSES (MINIMUM GRADE 65): | ||||
| NRSG-7109 | N1080 HHA I: Communication Health | 3 | ||
| Nursing 1080A/7069 HOLISTIC HEALTH ASSESSMENT I: COMMUNICATION FOR HEALTH ASSESSMENT Development of communication skills including therapeutic communication and health history acquisition is addressed in this course. Students engage in learning opportunities to enhance capabilities in therapeutic communication, interviewing, and relational practices with clients across the lifespan. Students document client care in accordance with legal standards of practice. | ||||
| NRSG-7110 | N1180A/B HHA II Systematic Hlth Assess | 3 | ||
| Nursing 1180A/B/7070 HOLISTIC HEALTH ASSESSMENT II: SYSTEMATIC HEALTH ASSESSMENT In this course application of clinical judgement models provide students a framework to convey information from health assessments as a foundational part of nursing practice. Conducting a focused examination of clients using a system based approach enables students to utilize theoretical components of health assessment in the laboratory environment. | ||||
| Year 2 | ||||
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| TAKE ALL OF THE FOLLOWING MANDATORY COURSES (MINIMUM GRADE 65): | ||||
| NRSG-7058 | N2220 A/B Hlth Promo & Caring Families | 3 | ||
| This course provides students with opportunity to deepen their understanding of health, empowering health promotion, and caring in the context of family, community, and populations across the lifespan. Normal growth and development, family health, and community health are addressed. (3 hours per week) | ||||
| NRSG-7060 | N2230A/B Hlth Promo & Supporting Health | 3 | ||
| Participation in this course enables the student to continue his/her development of clinical judgment skills and his/her understanding of the professional role of the nurse in caring for clients. Building on the year one courses, the student learns to identify challenges, barriers, and facilitators to optimal health in individuals. Engagement in this learning includes active participation in class discussion, presentations, group work and case studies. Students will continue to develop competency in fundamental nursing concepts and skills. | ||||
| NRSG-7063 | N2250A/B Ways of Knowing Research | 3 | ||
| This course will help prepare students to become knowledgeable consumers and users of research. Students will be introduced to ways of knowing and questioning related to nursing research with the ultimate goal being the advancement of client-centred care and nursing practice. Students will explore basic strategies for identifying knowledge gaps through literature review and appraisal. Research roles and methods pertinent to nursing will be emphasized. | ||||
Group 2 | ||||
| TAKE ALL OF THE FOLLOWING MANDATORY COURSES (MINIMUM GRADE 60): | ||||
| PHRM-7004 | N2060a/b Pharmacology & Therapeutic-Int | 3 | ||
| A course for students in the BSc in Nursing andother Health Sciences programs as well asstudents in BMSc and BSc programs, to provide abasic understanding of the fundamentals of drugaction and the mechanisms of action andtherapeutic use of the important classes of drugs. | ||||
| NRSG-7043 | PATH2420A Pathology for Nursing Student | 3 | ||
| Pathology 242a is an introductory survey course of Pathology - the study of disease. The course will begin with an introduction to processes such as injury, inflammation, immunity, and infection that are common to many organ systems and diseases. The latter half of the course will discuss diseases of specific organ systems. | ||||
Group 3 | ||||
| TAKE 6 ELECTIVE CREDITS AT THE UNIVERSITY LEVEL (MINIMUM GRADE 50): | ||||
| Year 2 Prof Practice | ||||
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| NRSG-7059 | N2221A/B Professional Practice Families | 3 | ||
| This course provides opportunities for students to work with families and communities, applying and integrating theories and concepts learned in the companion theory course. Students will focus on the assets and needs of families and communities and strategies to support and promote their health. Students will develop collaborative working partnerships with community members. | ||||
| NRSG-7061 | N2231A/B Prof. Practice Supporting Hlth | 3 | ||
| This course will provide students with the opportunity to apply and integrate concepts learned to date in theory classes, the laboratory and/or other professional practice settings using a variety of learning activities. Students will continue to develop competency in technical nursing skills, the attitudes necessary for nursing and interprofessional practice, and thinking patterns of professional nurses. Development and implementation of holistic plans of care with clients experiencing barriers to health and requiring support to improve and maintain health will be explored. Students will work collaboratively with clients and the interprofessional health care team to engage in client-centred care from a health promotion perspective. | ||||
| Program Residency | ||||
| Students Must Complete a Minimum of 15 credits in this program at Fanshawe College to meet the Program Residency requirement and graduate from this program | ||||