Collaborative Nursing

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.

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.

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.

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

This course will extend students' knowledge and skills related to information literacy and knowledge acquisition skills necessary for professional nursing practice. From a health equity lens, students will recognize how current trends in technology interface with clients' access to health in a digital space. Through active learning, students will examine appropriate knowledge sources for nursing practice.

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.

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.

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.

In this course, students explore the fundamental principles of aging and personal and family-centred nursing care for the older adult population in a variety of settings. Students will learn the normal aging process and how older adults are supported to live independently. The impact of diseases in older age is also reviewed to provide context for the types of supports needed to promote autonomy and independence. Students will learn how to approach geriatric assessments given the complexities of this population and understand how interprofessional team collaboration promotes health and provides care for older adults. Students also develop an understanding of the existing and compare seniors care from other jurisdictions. This course will encourage students to engage actively to learn how to assist older adults to age well and utilize the available community services for geriatric care.

The complexity of health issues requires students to utilize multiple sources of information to understand how these conditions impact the individual, family, and society. Using clinical reasoning, focusing on integration of assessment students develop knowledge and skill in client-centred care planning for optimal health outcomes.

In this introductory nursing research course students will be prepared 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 critical appraisal of research. Research roles and methods pertinent to nursing will be emphasized.

Students are introduced to basic concepts and techniques used to analyze both qualitative and quantitative data. This will include descriptive and inferential statistics and common methods for qualitative analysis and interpretation.

Students will analyze the development of human disease by exploring common health related problems including the age-related, genetic, environmental, and behavioural influences on disease development. While further developing critical thinking in nursing care, changes to the structure and function of tissue and organs and resultant clinical manifestations will be examined.

Students apply principles of holistic health assessment and therapeutic communication to the provision of care focused on the unique needs of the older adult population in laboratory and institutional settings. Students learn about the role of the nurse on the interprofessional team, and how care is coordinated for patients with various, often complex, health needs. Integration of family assessment and care provides a holistic perspective of individuals and families in the unique context of their lives.

Using laboratory and simulated practice, students utilize nursing knowledge and skill in client safety and evidence-informed practice to support health. Issues of care delivery focusing on unique and diverse individual responses, beliefs and building capacity for restoration of health are components of the course.