Course Overview
This course provides an overview of the historical development of the nursing profession. Using active learning strategies, learners will consider the contribution of nursing theory and nursing science to nursing identity, nursing practice, client safety and quality improvement in healthcare. Learners will explore how scholarship in nursing develops nursing science and nursing identity.
Prerequisite(s)
Credits
1.0
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Learning Outcomes
This course provides learning activities that contribute to the achievement of the following second-year competencies:
Collaborator
- With guidance, identifies and initiates potential solutions to conflict in defined contexts and situations.
- With guidance, implements a strength-based approach to collaboration in defined contexts and situations.
Decision Maker
- With guidance aligns care with quality criteria, legal frameworks, and economic and ecological principles
Leader
- With guidance, promotes a practice environment that encourages creative thinking and innovation and begins to propose alternative actions as appropriate.
- Uses evidence-based resources to promote better practices in client care
Professional
- With guidance promotes a professional culture that is responsive, supportive and collegial
- With guidance, assesses own practice and undertakes activities to improve practice and meet identified learning goals.
- With guidance, consults with others to identify an appropriate ethical reasoning and decision-making process to address ethical dilemmas and situations of ethical or moral distress
Effective as of Winter 2023
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