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NURS 112 Professional Practice I: Introduction to the Profession of Nursing is a course where students will examine foundational perspectives and concepts of the curriculum and their relationship to the development of autonomous to nursing practice. Students explore the history of the profession of nursing and reflect upon the political, cultural, and socioeconomic forces that have influenced and

NURS 116 Health and Healing I: Introduction to the Context of Health and Health Promotion introduces learners to health promotion. They will explore how health is conceptualized and examine their own personal beliefs relating to health. They will examine immerging impacts on health such as climate change. They will examine the health of diverse Canadians using a variety of health information

NURS 117 Relational Practice I: Self and Others. Students are introduced to nursing as an experience lived between people and explore the multiple factors that influence their own capacity to be in caring relation to others (individual, family groups, populations, communities, and the environment). They learn to question personal perspectives of experience to uncover attitudes, beliefs, and values

NURS 119 Nursing Practice I: Introduction to Nursing Practice. 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 breath of nursing practice. Participants integrate their learning from other semester one courses with their beginning understanding of nursing practice.

NURS 122 Professional Practice II: Discipline of Nursing: Knowledge Development and Inquiry, in this course, students examine the discipline of nursing and the relationship between nursing practice, theory, and research. Students explore contemporary understandings of the discipline of nursing and the body of knowledge that defines it by approaching knowledge for nursing as an intersection of

NURS 126 Health and Healing II: Health Assessment Across the Lifespan. In this course learners will explore promoting health and wellbeing of individuals and families across the lifespan. The focus is on health promotion, teaching and learning, and human growth and development; and how these foci inform the registered nurse’s role in contemporary health care. Learners will integrate and apply

NURS 129 Nursing Practice I: Introduction to Nursing Practice and Coming to Know the Client, in this course students apply knowledge from previous and concurrent courses to their beginning understanding of nursing practice. This introductory practice experience provides opportunities to develop caring relationships with groups, families and individuals across the lifespan. Emphasis is placed on

NURS 130 Consolidated Practice Experience I is designed to assist students to move forward with the health promoting focus of year one towards the focus on health challenges in year two. Students have opportunities to develop caring relationships with individuals and families, furthering the development of their assessment skills, some medication administration skills, and their understanding of

NURS 216 Health and Healing III: Health Challenges/Healing Initiatives builds 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. Students will have opportunities to further apply this theory into practice of nursing

NURS 217 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

NURS 219 Nursing Practice III: Promoting Health & Healing. This nursing practice experience provides opportunities for learners to develop caring relationships with individuals and families 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

NURS 222 Professional Practice III: Nursing Ethics builds on previous Relational Practice and Professional Practice courses, focusing 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

NURS 226 Health and Healing IV: Health Challenges/Healing Initiatives is about 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 IV and provides opportunities

NURS 229 Nursing Practice IV: Promoting Health and Healing. This nursing practice experience provides opportunities for learners to develop caring relationships with individuals and families 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

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

NURS 316 Health and Healing V: Complex Health Challenges 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

NURS 317 Relational Practice III: Connecting Across Differences builds 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 relational analysis. This course focuses on enhancing participants' everyday relational practice with individuals, families, and groups. The emphasis is

NURS 319 Nursing Practice V: Promoting Health and Healing. 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

NURS 341 Professional Practice IV: Nursing Inquiry builds upon concepts introduced in Professional Practice I, II, and III, in this course, participants will explore the historical and philosophical approaches to the development of nursing knowledge and inquiry. Relationships between practice, theory, and research are explored.

NURS 342 Health Healing VI: Global Health Issues. 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

NURS 350 Health and Healing VII: Promoting Community and Societal Health 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 with a focus on community and society as client. The political role of the nurse is explored as the

NURS 351 Nursing Practice VI: Promoting Health of Communities and Society 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.

NURS 360 Professional Practice VI: Nursing Research builds on Professional Practice II, III, and IV, 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

NURS 370 and 470 Consolidated Practice Experiences (CPE) III & IV are designed to provide opportunities for participants to integrate, consolidate and expand concepts from previous learning. Participants have opportunities to consolidate learning from the first, second and third years of the program in a variety of settings and with any of age or type of client.

NURS 430 Professional Practice V: Leadership in Nursing 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