Nursing Knowledge 5 BSNC 5000

This course will focus on the development of nursing knowledge and thinking processes required to plan care for families during the perinatal period and for those with growing children and youth. Specific concepts such as sexual health, nutrition, growth and development, client education as they relate to childbearing and to the family with children and youth will provide the basis for knowledge development using exemplars such as 'low risk' birth, allergies, neurodevelopmental disorders, asthma and depression. Students have the opportunity to integrate conceptual learning as they apply biopsychosocial and pharmacological principles to plan care. The course incorporates knowledge from science, humanities and other disciplines in relation to specific exemplars. In collaborative, problem-based seminars and other active learning methods, learners will actively employ critical thinking, clinical imagination and clinical reasoning processes, form clinical judgments, and emphasize priorities based on case examples. Additionally, they will apply the principles of critical inquiry to access and determine the most appropriate evidence and apply it to their nursing care planning. Learners will draw from a variety of clinical practice experiences and contexts providing real time opportunities to further develop and apply these thinking processes. This course supports and is integrally linked to the Practice of Nursing 5. This course includes an integrated and applied learning experience in a simulated/practice environment. These courses are co-facilitated by Nursing and Bioscience Faculty to integrate nursing and science concepts.