Practice of Nursing 6 BSNC 6030

Upon successful completion, the student will meet the following competencies:

Advocate

• Collaborates with clients to facilitate navigation through health care services effectively
• Uses knowledge of relational practice to impact health outcomes of individuals, families, communities, and populations
• Examines and promotes the equitable allocation of health care resources considering the health disparities of at-risk populations
• Incorporates knowledge of social justice, population health, environmental and global health issues in the nursing care of clients
• Advocates for informed decision making and preservation of dignity on behalf of clients
• Incorporates knowledge of the unique needs of specific populations into nursing care

Collaborator

• Identifies hierarchical structures and power dynamics within the healthcare system
• Recognizes situations for potential and actual conflict and with guidance, identifies and initiates potential solutions to conflict in defined contexts and situations
• Solicits and accommodates multiple perspectives in any given situation to support safe, high quality, client-centred care
• Implements a strength-based approach to collaboration in defined contexts and situations
• Participates in cooperative communication and decision-making with healthcare team members to optimize outcomes for clients and the healthcare system
• Facilitates linkages between resources and clients
• Promotes a strength-based approach when collaborating with clients and healthcare team members

Communicator

• Communicates effectively with clients and healthcare team members in increasingly complex contexts or situations to support safe, high quality, client-centred health care with minimal assistance
• Demonstrates a strengths-based participatory approach to developing and maintaining therapeutic partnerships
• Engages in relational practice through a variety of approaches that demonstrate caring behaviours appropriate for clients
• Assists clients to identify and access health and other resources in their communities
• Demonstrates effective public speaking
• Educates clients to maintain and promote health
• Uses information and communication technologies to support information synthesis in accordance with professional and regulatory standards in the delivery of client care

Decision Maker

• Uses critical Inquiry and relational practice to incorporate knowledge of a particular client, client patterns of responses; personal clinical knowledge of similar clients, and empirical knowledge, in the planning and provision of client care
• In relation to specific clients, identifies credible, accurate, appropriate and current information, resources, services and/or relevant technologies
• Identifies implications for nursing practice related to health information and technologies
• Aligns care with quality criteria, legal frameworks, and economic and ecological principles

Global Citizen

• Uses critical perspectives to analyze social justice and equity issues in healthcare
• Incorporates global awareness in nursing practice
• Incorporates cultural humility and social consciousness in nursing practice
• Plans care for clients that incorporates consideration of determinants of health and social justice
• Provides care to clients that promotes social justice and equity in healthcare
• Uses moral questioning to identify the socio-political, economic and historical factors that lead to inequities among individuals, communities and nations

Leader

• Incorporates evidence-based knowledge, courage and ethical standards to challenge the status quo
• Demonstrates appropriate use of expertise/influence/credibility to positively influence client care outcomes
• Promotes and incorporates the perspectives and expertise of each member of the healthcare team
• Promotes a practice environment that encourages creative thinking and innovation and proposing alternative actions as appropriate
• Explores and develops a range of possible alternatives and approaches for care with clients

Lifelong Learner

• Uses evidence-based resources to promote better practices in client care
• Critically evaluates research and its contribution to nursing practice
• Incorporates interprofessional perspectives so as to optimize client outcomes
• Presents knowledge and critical analysis in a scholarly manner
• Engages in learning activities designed to augment nursing knowledge, skill and attitudes to enrich their contribution to quality healthcare

Professional

• Uses knowledge of the nursing role and the roles of other healthcare professions to consult with the client, family and the healthcare team to develop a plan of care to meet the client’s needs
• Consults with others to identify an appropriate ethical reasoning and decision-making process to address ethical dilemmas and situations of ethical or moral distress
• 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
• Respects and preserves clients’ rights based on the ethical standards of the nursing profession

Effective as of Winter 2022