Year 2
Course of Studies
Semester 3
| Course | Name | Credit | |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHSC 218 | Health Sciences III: Pathophysiology and Pharmacology | 3 | |
| NURS 216 | Health & Healing III: Health Challenges/Healing Initiatives | 6 | |
| NURS 217 | Relational Practice II: Creating Health - Promoting Relationships | 3 | |
| NURS 219 | Nursing Practice III: Promoting Health and Healing | 7 | |
| Total | 19 | ||
Semester 4
| Course | Name | Credit | |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHSC 228 | Health Sciences IV: Pathophysiology and Pharmacology | 3 | |
| NURS 222 | Professional Practice III: Nursing Ethics | 3 | |
| NURS 226 | Health & Healing IV: Health Challenges/Healing Initiatives | 6 | |
| NURS 229 | Promoting Health and Healing | 7 | |
| NURS 230 | Consolidated Practice Experience II (Spring, 6 weeks) | 6 | |
| Total | 25 | ||
Course Descriptions
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 IThis 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.AHSC 228: Health Sciences IV: Pathophysiology and Pharmacology is a continuation of AHSC 218. The major emphasis is on the study of how homeodynamics is altered by physical, biochemical microbial, genetic, nutritional or immunologic factors. This course will examine the presentation and pathogenesis of disease, the impact of disease on homeodynamics, diagnostics, and the pharmacological management of selected health challenges. Where appropriate nutrition, genetics, and environmental impacts on health will be drawn through the major concepts of this course. Topics will be closely coordinated with the practice and the health and healing courses.
Prerequisites: 60% or better in AHSC 218 Corequisites: Year 2 Nursing Program courses
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 their 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.NURS 230: Consolidated Practice Experience II is a 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 contextual influences on the promotion of health for the individual and family. They increase their understanding of the role of the professional nurse as a member of the health care team. Participants have opportunities to consolidate learning from first and second year of the program in a variety of settings. Practice advancement, within the context of this consolidated experience, focuses on enhancing learner knowledge, competence and confidence in the Domains of Practice.
Prerequisites: Successful completion of Semester 4 of Year 2 of the Nursing program Current CPR Certificate (Level HCP-C or BLS)