Nursing

This course provides an integrative approach to the normal structure and function of the human body. Repair and replication, structural support, nervous integration, movement and metabolism are examined at the cellular, tissue and system levels. Recent scientific discoveries are presented as a means of relating the systems studied to various applied disciplines including health care and Kinesiology.

Prerequisites:

BIOL 12, CHEM 11, and one of BIOL 11, CHEM 12, or PHYS 12 (BIOL 11 recommended) with a grade of "C" or better.

Students needing a year of Introductory English may choose to take English 110/111 or English 112/114. English 112/114 focuses on reading and interpretation of literature, and is an attractive alternative to English 110/111 for students wishing to continue in the study of Arts or Humanities.

English 110: College Composition is designed to enable the student to produce clear, coherent and fully developed essays. The course covers academic writing styles, rhetorical modes, editing techniques and research practices.

Prerequisites:

A “C” or better in ENGL 12 or equivalent or LPI level 4.

This course is available via Distance Education.

This course is an introduction to the profession of nursing. Participants examine the foundational concepts of the curriculum and how the concepts relate to nursing practice. Participants also explore the history of nursing and have the opportunity to explore and critically reflect upon the political and socioeconomic forces that have shaped the status of women in society and the evolution of the nursing profession. Standards of nursing practice and responsibility for safe and ethical nursing practice are explored.

Prerequisites:

Admission to the nursing program.

This course is an introduction to the meaning of health including personal, family, community, and societal health. Participants examine theoretical and conceptual frameworks of health including health promotion, primary health care, prevention, and determinants of health. By reflecting on personal experiences, participants have the opportunity to identify personal resources and/or challenges that impact health as well as recognize the diversity of beliefs, values, and perceptions held by others. Opportunities to learn basic health assessment skills are included.

Prerequisites:

Admission to the nursing program.

The premise underlying this course is that nursing is an experience lived between people. Participants explore the multiple factors that influence their own capacity to be in caring relation to others. They learn to question personal perspectives of experience; to uncover attitudes, beliefs and values; and to share and acknowledge differences. Emphasis is placed on a phenomenological attitude to view the structure and experiences that make up their own and other people's lives.

Prerequisites:

Admission to the nursing program.

This course provides an introduction to nursing practices with opportunities to engage with healthy families in the community and with nurses in practice to explore the breadth of nursing practice. Participants integrate their learning from other semester one courses with their beginning understanding of nursing practice.

Prerequisites:

Admission to the nursing program.

A continuation of Biology 164, this course covers the cardiovascular, respiratory, lymphatic, urinary and digestive systems. Endocrinology is discussed throughout as a means of integrating the various systems to the function of the body as a whole. The focus remains on application of knowledge gained in this course.

Prerequisites:

BIOL 164 with a "C" or better or written permission of the Instructor and School Chair.

This course is an introduction to the discipline of nursing. Participants explore the historical development of nursing knowledge and theory as well as contemporary understandings of nursing as a discipline and the body of knowledge that defines it. Relationships between practice, theory, and research are explored.

Prerequisites:

Admission to the nursing program.

Building on Health and Healing I, this course focuses on individual, family, and community health assessment. Participants have opportunities to explore and critique theoretical and conceptual frameworks in relation to health assessment including early childhood development, family development, healthy aging, and community development. Assessment is explored within the context of decision-making. Opportunities to learn basic health assessment skills are continued.

Prerequisites:

Admission to the nursing program.

The nursing practice experience provides opportunities to develop caring relationships with groups, families and individuals across the lifespan. Emphasis is placed on health assessment and coming to know how clients understand and promote their health, and the role of the nurse in partnering with the client. Participants work with groups, families, and individuals in the home and community, in agencies, and in care facilities to incorporate concepts and learning from all courses in the semester.

Prerequisites:

Admission to the nursing program.

This practice experience is designed to assist participants to move forward with the health focus of year one towards the focus of health challenges in year two. This course consists of workshops on topics that are foundational to providing personal care and time in a practice setting where students have the opportunity to provide personal care while furthering the development of their assessment skills and their understanding of health and health promotion.

Prerequisites:

Admission to the nursing program.

The major emphasis of this introductory course is to gain a foundational knowledge of concepts related to human pathophysiology. This course will examine the presentation and pathogenesis of health challenges across the life span including pharmacology, microbiology, diagnostics, epidemiology, genetics, and nutrition. Topics will be closely coordinated with practice, nursing learning centre and the health courses.

Prerequisites:

Admission to Year 2 of the Nursing Program.

Building on the learners' understanding of health, the focus of this course is on people's experience with healing for both chronic and episodic health challenges. Participants integrate theory and concepts of health as they relate to healing. This course is complementary to Health Sciences III and provides opportunities for learners to integrate pathophysiology with their understanding of health and healing and the nursing approaches that accompany this understanding.

Prerequisites:

Promotion to Study Semester 3.

Building on Relational Practice I, in this course participants move beyond personal discovery to a focus on relational caring. The major emphasis of the course is relational practice with individuals, families, and groups from diverse backgrounds of age, culture, and experience. This is an experiential course designed to deepen the participants' understanding of caring and how the connection between caring and relationship provides the context for health and healing. Participants explore theories and processes of caring, relational identity development of self as nurse, and relational practice as enacted across a range of settings and contexts.

Prerequisites:

Promotion to Study Semester 3: Relational Practice I

This nursing practice experience provides opportunities to develop caring relationships with individuals and families for the purpose of health promotion while coming to understand their unique health and healing processes. Participants will have opportunities to practice nursing approaches that accompany this understanding. Participants work with families and individuals experiencing common health challenges (both episodic and chronic) in the home and community, in agencies, and in care facilities to incorporate concepts and learning from all the courses in this semester into their nursing practice. The community and society are considered as contextual influences on the promotion of health and healing for the individual and the family.

Prerequisites:

Promotion to Study Semester 3. Travel requirement.

The major emphasis of this course builds on concepts related to human pathophysiology. This course will examine the pathogenesis of health challenges across the life span including pharmacology, microbiology, diagnostics, epidemiology, genetics, immunology and nutrition. Topics will be closely coordinated with practice, nursing learning centre and the health courses.

Prerequisites:

AHSC 218-3.

Building on previous Relational Practice and Professional Practice courses, this course focuses on the growing body of knowledge related to nursing ethics. Beginning with an understanding of bio-medical ethics that have dominated nursing ethics in the past and moving to an understanding of developing ethical theory related to nursing and nursing issues, participants will have opportunities to explore nursing ethics in the context of their nursing practice.

Prerequisites:

Promotion to Study Semester 4.

Participants in this course continue to develop an understanding of people's experiences with healing related to a variety of increasingly complex chronic and episodic health challenges within a variety of practice contexts. This course is complementary to Health Sciences IV and provides opportunities for learners to integrate pathophysiology with their understanding of health and healing and the nursing approaches that accompany this understanding.

Prerequisites:

Promotion to Study Semester 4.

This nursing practice experience continues to provide opportunities for learners to develop caring relationships with individuals and familities for the purpose of health promotion while coming to understand their health and healing processes when experiencing more complex health challenges, both episodic and chronic. Participants will have opportunities to practice nursing approaches that accompany this understanding. Participants work with families and individuals in the home and community, in agencies, and in care facilities to incorporate concepts and learning from all the courses in this semester into thier nursing practice. The community and society are considered as contextual influences on the promotion of health for the individual and the family.

Prerequisites:

Promotion to Study Semester 4. Travel requirement.

In this consolidated practice experience, opportunities are provided to develop caring relationships for the purpose of healing and health promotion with individuals and families experiencing increasingly complex chronic and episodic health challenges. The community and society are considered as contextual influences on the promotion of health for the individual and the family. Participants have opportunities to consolidate learning from the first and second year of the program in a variety of settings.

Prerequisites:

Promotion to Study CPE. Travel requirement.

This course builds on Health and Healing I and II and Health Sciences III and IV and provides opportunities for participants to build on their nursing knowledge and understanding of health and healing in relation to complex episodic and chronic health challenges. This advanced course will focus on current topics and emerging knowledge related to a variety of health care contexts.

Prerequisites:

Promotion to Study Semester 5.

Building on the concepts introduced in Relational Practice I and II and other previous courses, Relational Practice III provides a synthesis of knowledge that is the basis of critical analysis. This course focuses on enhancing participants' everyday relational practice with individuals, families, and groups. The emphasis is on engaging with the complexities of difference in everyday nursing practice and the challenges these complexities might pose for being in-relation with clients.

Prerequisites:

Promotion to Study Semester 5.

This nursing practice experience continues to provide opportunities for learners to develop caring relationships with individuals and families, while coming to understand their health and healing process within the context of complex health issues. Participants will have opportunities to practice nursing approaches that accompany this understanding. Participants work with families and individuals in the home and community, in agencies, and in care facilities to incorporate concepts and learning from all the courses in the semester into their nursing practice, with an emphasis on the complex health challenges.

Prerequisites:

Promotion to Study Semester 5. Travel requirement.

(University of Victoria at Selkirk College). In this course, various modes of nursing inquiry are addressed. Relationships between practice, theory, and research are explored. Past and present contributions to nursing knowledge are discussed.

Participants in this course continue to develop an understanding of people's experience with health and healing related to a variety of increasingly complex chronic and episodic global health challenges and issues. Emphasis is placed on the role of the nurse as care provider, community organizer/facilitator, educator and advocate within the context of the global society and the changing health care environment. Participants examine a variety of emerging health issues and trends using these as a context for further developing their personal understanding of nursing practice that supports meaningful interactions with individuals, families, groups, communities and society.

This course focuses on the role of the nurse in the promotion of community and societal health. It is a companion course with Health and Healing VI and participants will continue to develop their competencies in relational practice within the context of community and society as client. The political role of the nurse is explored as the emphasis is placed upon working with communities from a social justice and equity perspective. Community development and capacity building, as a pattern of community health promotion practice, is explored. In addition students will further develop their understanding of teaching and learning focusing on transformative and emancipatory approaches.

Prerequisites:

Promotion to Study Stemester 5. Travel requirement.

This nursing practice experience provides opportunities to develop caring relationships with families, groups, and communities and/or populations with emphasis on health promotion and community empowerment. Participants have opportunities to work with a community on an identified health issue.

Prerequisites:

Nursing Practice IV. Travel requirement.

(University of Victoria at Selkirk College). This consolidated practice experience is designed to provide opportunities for participants to integrate learning from previous terms, and to advance their professional nursing practice. Participants have opportunities to consolidate learning and advance their decision making in a variety of settings. Nursing practice experiences consist of an eight week preceptorship. Attendance at course workshops is required.

Prerequisites:

Successful completion of Study Term 6. Travel requirement. Relocation may be required.

(University of Victoria at Selkirk College). This consolidated practice experience is designed to provide opportunities for participants to integrate learning from previous semesters, and to advance their professional nursing practice. Participants have opportunities to consolidate learning and advance their decision-making in a variety of settings. Nursing practice experiences consist of a six week preceptorship. Attendance at course workshops is required.

Prerequisites:

Nursing 370. Successful completion of Study Term 6. Travel requirement. Relocation may be necessary.

(The University of Victoria at Selkirk College). Building on Professional Practice II and III, the intent of this course is to enhance participants' understanding of nursing scholarship and enhance their abilities to comprehend, critique, and utilize nursing research. Participants critically reflect on various scholarly works and research methodologies. Participants experience ways to critically examine their practice in relation to nursing research and to pose research questions for evidence-informed practice.

Prerequisites:

Successful completion of Study Term 6.

(University of Victoria at Selkirk College). This course explores the ways nurses can provide leadership, influence, create and manage change for the promotion of health for individuals, families, groups and communities within the context of society and the world. Emphasis is placed on leadership roles of the nurse within practice contexts. The role of the nurse within the current and evolving Canadian health care system is explored including considerations of the impact of global trends and issues. Issues facing nurses in the current work environment will be discussed.

Collaborative and ethical approaches for working within institutional philosophies and frameworks will be explored.

Prerequisites:

Nursing 350 and 351.

(University of Victoria at Selkirk College). This nursing practice experience provides opportunities for participants to further develop their competencies in the areas of leadership, influencing and managing change, and the utilization of research for the purpose of promoting the health of individuals, families, communities and society, within the context of the Canadian health care system. This nursing practice experience focuses on participants' growth in their practice as professional nurses. They have opportunities to explore inter-professional practice and nursing leadership in the context of emerging Canadian and global health issues and trends.

(University of Victoria at Selkirk College). This final consolidated practice experience is designed to provide opportunities for participants to integrate learning from previous semesters, and to advance their professional nursing practice. In a variety of settings, students have opportunities to consolidate learning and advance their clinical decision-making. Nursing practice experiences consist of a six week practice. Attendance at course workshop is required.

Prerequisites:

Nursing 370 and 470. Successful completion of Study Term 7. Travel requirement. Relocation may be necessary.

This nursing practice experience provides opportunities for participants to consolidate their learning and explore the transition to professional nursing as a BSN graduate. Participants also explore transitions in the health care system and the workplace that affect nurses. Participants develop their practice and enhance their knowledge within a specific area, for example, a particular setting of practice, a certain client population, or a specific health challenge.

Prerequisites:

Nursing 370, 470, and 475. Travel Requirement. Relocation may be necessary.