Course Overview
This course includes the clinical skill acquisition of focused assessments of the older adult living in the community with a chronic illness. This includes some physical assessment and interview of a client/family who has had to navigate the health care system. Experiential learning is used to explore the following concepts: quality and safety in healthcare, and clinical decision making. Learners will apply other concepts learned in Context of Nursing 1 (BSNC 1020), Nursing Knowledge 1 (BSNC 1000) and Communication 1 (BSNC 1055), such as the health of aging adults. Learners begin to access research evidence about healthy lifestyle patterns, risk factors for chronic disease, and apply growth and development theory using a culturally safe approach. Learners begin to assess client’s cognition, mobility, gas exchange and perfusion in various learning spaces, such as the classroom, skills/simulation laboratories, and community practice sites. Learners work as members of a community/inter-professional team, give and receive feedback from peers and instructors about performance, and use reflective thinking about their practice as nursing students. Clinical practice sites are community programs and organizations that focus on supporting and empowering clients/families who are managing chronic health conditions in the community. Learners are provided with an integrative experience to apply Term 1 course concepts while focusing on application of communication skills, focussed health assessments, quality/safety and decision-making skills that promote positive client health outcomes.
Prerequisite(s)
Credits
4.0
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
Advocate
- Identifies the impact of inequities in determinants of health, genetics that limit client choice and affect health outcomes
- Identifies systemic disadvantages for particular clients that affect health outcomes
- Incorporates knowledge of the origins of health disparities and inequities of Indigenous populations and the contributions of nursing practice into nursing care to achieve positive health outcomes for clients
- Incorporates knowledge of the health disparities and inequities of at-risk populations and the contributions of nursing practice into nursing care to achieve positive health outcomes for clients
- Identifies and respects basic human rights
- Facilitates client choice and capacity to maximize their healthcare outcomes
- Recognizes the professional and ethical responsibility to advocate for client safety, fairness, and equitable distribution of healthcare resources within a defined scope of practice
Collaborator
- Forms partnerships and relationships with various members of the healthcare team to optimize outcomes for clients and the healthcare system in defined contexts and situations
- Identifies organizational structures within the healthcare system
- Identifies roles and scope of practice of healthcare team members
- Identifies conflict and discusses potential solutions
- Identifies and describes facets of a strength-based approach to collaboration
- Displays initiative, a beginning confidence and self-awareness in collaborative interactions within the healthcare team
Communicator
- Identifies opportunities for and implements strategies to communicate effectively with clients and healthcare team members to provide safe, high quality, client centered healthcare with assistance
- Demonstrates elements of assertive communication in practice
- Recognizes the impact of communication in supporting safe, high quality, client centered healthcare
- Verifies that clients have an understanding of essential information and skills to be active participants in their own care
- Demonstrates effective group process and presentation skills
- Uses appropriate nursing informatics, communication modalities and technologies in the practice of nursing care
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
- Has theoretical and practical knowledge of relational practice and understands that relational practice is the foundation for all nursing practice
- Applies principles of critical inquiry and relational practice to conduct client focused assessments that emphasize client input and the determinants of health
- Identifies links between salient client data, knowledge, required nursing care and expected client responses
- Utilizes a decision making model to guide nursing care planning and delivery
- Reflects on nursing actions and incorporates knowledge into practice
- Prioritizes clinical problems/issues to promote client safety and quality of care
Global Citizen
- Provides culturally safe and equitable care in defined contexts and situation
Leader
- Demonstrates knowledge of the role of the nurse as a leader/change agent/follower within a multidisciplinary healthcare team
- Identifies the unique interpersonal capacities, roles, qualities and skills each member of the healthcare team brings
- Seeks and accepts feedback to foster own professional growth
- Utilizes evidenced based knowledge, and ethical standards to guide practice decisions
- Participates in sharing of thinking about issues and decisions regarding client care and is open to having ideas challenged by others
- Recognizes own scope of practice and collaborates with the healthcare team as appropriate
- Consults and collaborates with clients and healthcare team to identify actual and potential client healthcare needs, strengths, capacities and goals
Lifelong Learner
- Reflects on practice to identify and actively address learning needs
- Articulates the elements and principles of the research process
- Critically appraises learning resources by systematically examines evidence to ascertain its credibility, value and relevance in a particular nursing practice context
- Draws upon evidence-based resources to actively develop foundational nursing knowledge
Professional
- Demonstrates understanding of the nursing profession as a self-regulating profession mandated by provincial legislation to protect the public
- Maintains appropriate professional boundaries with clients and the healthcare team
- Demonstrates honesty, integrity, and respect in all professional interactions
- Functions within own level of competence in selected contexts and within a defined scope of practice1
- Seeks support when needed from the most appropriate resources and persons
- Demonstrates self-care and personal development to build resilience
- Demonstrates consideration of the values, beliefs and practices of clients
- Enacts client centered care and practices
- Maintains own physical, psychological and emotional fitness to practice
- Is accountable to clients, society and the nursing profession for own actions, decisions, and professional nursing conduct
- Maintains individual competence within scope of practice and professional standards
- Recognizes and discusses personal biases and takes action to minimize the influence of positional power, personal values and beliefs on clients
- Locates and applies policies and procedures consistent with the standards of the profession
Effective as of Spring/Summer 2023
Related Programs
Practice of Nursing 1 (BSNC 1030) 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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