Course Overview
This course will focus on the development of nursing knowledge and thinking processes required to care for individual aging clients who are well or recovered from illness and living in the community. Learners will begin to learn to make selected clinical decisions in the context of nursing science and care by accessing and using current and reliable resources. Specific concepts such as perfusion, cognition and mobility as they relate to the well client's experience of aging will provide the basis for knowledge development and will be illustrated using exemplars such as dementia and osteoporosis. The course will also incorporate knowledge from sciences and other disciplines as it relates to specific exemplars. This course will include active learning strategies such as unfolding case studies to support student learning. This course supports and is integrally linked to the Practice of Nursing 1. The course is co-facilitated by Nursing and Basic Health Science faculty to integrate nursing and science concepts.
Prerequisite(s)
Credits
4.0
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, the student will meet the following competencies:
Advocate
- Identifies systemic disadvantages for particular clients that affect health outcomes.
- Identifies the impact of inequities in determinants of health, genetics that limit client choice and affect health outcomes.
Decision Maker
- Draws on knowledge from nursing and other sciences, humanities, research, ethics, spirituality, relational practice and critical inquiry in the practice of nursing care.
- Utilizes a decision-making model to guide nursing care planning and delivery.
Global Citizen
- Provides culturally safe and equitable care in defined contexts and situations.
Leader
- Utilizes evidenced based knowledge, and ethical standards to guide practice decisions.
Professional
- Recognizes and discusses personal biases and takes action to minimize the influence of positional power, personal values and beliefs on clients.
Effective as of Winter 2022
Related Programs
Nursing Knowledge 1 (BSNC 1000) is offered as a part of the following programs:
School of Health Sciences
- Nursing
Bachelor of Science in Nursing Full-time
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