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

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

Complements and supplements NURS 1135 and NURS 1142. Application of wellness concepts as they relate to clients living with chronic conditions. Involves health assessment and application of relevant nursing therapeutics and roles in the institutional setting.

Designed to establish the foundation required for health assessment. Expands the concept of health, health promotion and health lifestyle choices as they apply to health assessment, including health assessment techniques and data interpretive skills. The lab component focuses on the practical application of health assessment. 

Explores social, physical, emotional, and intellectual aspects of health, wellness and illness within the framework of primary health care.

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. 

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 includes basic legal and safety issues related to drug administration by the nurse. Incorporates increased student support for application of the related concepts.

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.

In various clinical settings, students will be provided opportunities to assess, implement and evaluate care with young families, clients living with mental health challenges or chronic health issues.

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.

This clinical course has two foci; one with young families, the other with clients living with mental health challenges. In each component the students will have opportunities to explore, develop, and support behaviours, in partnership with clients. This course is designed to provide students, in partnership with clients, opportunities to explore family processes, and develop and implement strategies to support health behaviours of young families and clients living with mental health challenges.

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

In institution and community settings, students will develop and implement strategies to explore, develop, and support positive health behaviours of young families, individuals living with mental health challenges, or chronic health issues. 

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, parmacotherapeutics 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).

Explores the helping relationship within the context of nursing practice. Students will develop more advanced counseling skills. The use of labs and/or tutorials may vary with the teaching sites. 

Explores the structure of the Canadian healthcare system. Examines current service delivery issues as they influence nursing and the health of Canadians.

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.

Applies a population health focus in community settings with diverse population.

Examines the client's experience of acute health challenges, with the focus on nursing therapeutics.

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

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

Explores the theoretical foundations of nursing practice and research, including clinical analysis of theories and concepts related to nursing. 

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.

This course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to care for families who have at least one member experiencing an acute or chronic illness. Students will be expected to care for families in multiple settings, including their home and hospital. Students will integrate and apply the theory examined in NURS 4113 and NURS 4121 in this practice setting.

This course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to care for families who have at least one member experiencing an acute or chronic illness, as well as consideration of the health of populations.  Students will be expected to care for families in multiple settings, including their home and hospital. Students will integrate and apply the theory examined in NURS 4113 and NURS 4121 in this practice setting. 

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.

An independent study program under the guidance of a faculty member is pursued on the basis of student interest in any area of nursing. Faculty approval required.

The content of the course will be determined by the needs of the visiting student. Nursing students who come on exchange have special needs for theory. This course will provide an avenue for these needs to be covered within a single course.

The content of this course will be determined by the needs of the visiting student. However, it will be developed around a clinical experience in the hospital or community. Nursing students who come on exchange have special needs for clinical experiences. This course will provide an avenue for these needs to be covered with a single course.