Course Descriptions
NURS 341: Professional Practice IV - Nursing Inquiry
Builds on Professional Practice I, II, and III. In this course knowledge for the discipline of nursing is explored as well as various modes of nursing inquiry. Relationships between practice, theory, and research are explored.
NURS 342: Health and Healing VI - Global Health Issues
Study of complex chronic and episodic global health challenges and issues. Emphasis is placed on the role of the nurse as care provider, community organizer, facilitator, educator and advocate within the context of the global society and the changing health care environment. Participants examine emerging health issues and trends further to develop their understanding of nursing practice.
NURS 350: Health and Healing VII - Promoting Community and Societal Health
The role of the nurse in promoting community and societal health. A companion course with Health and Healing VI. Participants will continue to develop competencies in relational practice with a focus on community and society as client. Topics include the political role of the nurse in working with communities explored from a social justice and equity perspective; community development and capacity building for community health promotion; transformative and emancipatory approaches to teaching and learning.
Prerequisite: Health and Healing VI
Corequisite: NURS 351.
NURS 351: Nursing Practice VI
This nursing practice experience provides opportunities to develop caring relationships with families, groups and communities and/or populations with an emphasis on health promotion and community empowerment. Participants have opportunities to work with a community on an identified health issue.
Prerequisite: Health and Healing VI.
Corequisite: NURS 350.
Grading: COM/F.
NURS 360: Professional Practice VI - Nursing Research
Building on Professional Practice II, III, and IV, participants will enhance their understanding of nursing scholarship and their abilities to comprehend, critique, and utilize nursing research. Participants critically reflect on various scholarly works and research methodologies. Participants experience ways to critically examine their practice in relation to nursing research and to pose research questions for evidence-informed practice.
NURS 370: Consolidated Practice Experience III
This consolidated practice experience is designed to provide opportunities for participants to integrate learning from previous semesters, and to advance their professional nursing practice. Participants have opportunities to consolidate learning and advance their clinical decision making in a variety of settings. Nursing practice experiences consist of a six week preceptorship. Attendance at course workshops is required.
Prerequisite: NURS 341, NURS 352, NURS 350, NURS 351
Grading: COM/F.
NURS 425: Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis
A grounding in the techniques commonly used in the analysis of both quantitative data. Students will engage in the process of qualitative analysis through examining qualitative data, data coding and thematic constructions. A range of descriptive and inferential statistical approaches to quantitative analysis are examined using a computer-based system.
This course is strongly recommended for those applying to Nursing graduate programs. All students must have basic computing and word processing skills prior to enrolling in the course. Students taking the course off-campus must have access to a computer with a CD-ROM
NURS 430: Professional Practice V - Leadership in Nursing
A study of nursing leadership in the promotion of health for individuals, families, groups and communities in a global context. Topics include the role of the nurse in the Canadian health care system; the impact of global trends and issues; the issues facing nurses in the current work environment; collaborative and ethical approaches for working within institutional philosophies and frameworks.
Prerequisite: NURS 350 & 351.
Corequisite: NURS 431.
NURS 431: Nursing Practice VII - Engaging in Leadership
Opportunities to further develop competencies in the areas of leadership, influencing and managing change, and in using research to promote the health of individuals, families, communities and society within the context of the Canadian health care system. Focus on participants' growth as nursing professionals; opportunities to explore interprofessional practices and nursing leadership in the context of emerging Canadian and global health issues and trends.
Prerequisite: NURS 350 & NURS 351.
Corequisite: NURS 430.
Grading: COM/F.
NURS 450: Nursing Leadership and Management
The intent of this course is to enhance participants' understanding of the meaning of leadership and the tasks of management. Worldviews that influence perceptions of health care and health organizations, and current approaches to managing health care will be studied. Nursing leadership in establishing a climate in which quality of care and quality work environments can become a reality are emphasized in this course.
NURS 470: Consolidated Practice Experience IV
This consolidated practice experience is designed to provide opportunities for participants to integrate learning from previous semesters, and to advance their professional nursing practice. Participants have opportunities to consolidate learning and advance their clinical decision making in a variety of settings. Nursing practice experiences consist of a six week preceptorship. Attendance at course workshops is required.
Prerequisite: NURS 370.
Grading: COM/F.
NURS 475: Consolidated Practice Experience V
This final consolidated practice experience is designed to provide opportunities for participants to integrate learning from previous semesters and to advance their professional nursing practice. In a variety of settings, participants have opportunities to consolidate learning, and advance their clinical decision making. Nursing practice experiences consist of a six week preceptorship. Attendance at course workshops is required.
Prerequisite: NURS 360, 370 , 430 431.
Grading: COM/F.
NURS 481C: Nursing Practice in Hospice Palliative Care
The purpose of this course is to explore nursing practice in hospice palliative care. Historical, theoretical, personal, and professional perspectives are presented for ongoing examination and analysis in relation to their impact on the guidance for nursing practice. Central to this exploration is a growing understanding of the human experience of persons living their dying and how we as nurses choose to engage with the hospice palliative care patients. It is our goal that, through examination of these various dimensions, you will be guided to practice with persons living their dying in ways that uphold human dignity and honour human uniqueness. More
NURS 482: Pharmacological Knowledge for Nursing Practice
This course is designed to build on and enhance pharmacological knowledge for
nursing practice. A systems approach will be followed to develop
knowledge of pharmacological, herbal and homeopathic interventions for common acute and chronic
illnesses, medical conditions and disorders. Students will have the opportunity to
explore a population of interest (i.e., pediatrics) and issues related to
pharmacological interventions and marketing. Additionally, learning activities that
explore homeopathic and herbal remedies will be employed. More
NURS 484: Nursing with Aboriginal Peoples in Canada
This course is an introduction to nursing with Aboriginal peoples in Canada. Through the use of storytelling, self-reflection, and critical framework, learners are invited to enter into a “dialogue” with Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal individuals, community members and nurses. Together, as a community of learners, we will explore the essential concepts of relationship and power as related to working with Aboriginal people and communities. Major themes covered in the course materials and through course interactions are: an examination of colonialism in Canada and its impacts, particularly on Aboriginal people, cultural safety, ethical relationships, and the responsibilities of nurses working in this context. While primarily focused on nursing, all human service professionals are invited to participate in this course.
NURS 486: Mental Health Challenges in Later Life
This course is designed to assist frontline professionals to work with older persons who experience mental health problems. Studies will include: stressors affecting emotional health in the elderly; mental health assessment; interventions useful in the management of problematic behaviours in the elderly; environmental strategies for increasing functioning in older people, and community resources for meeting mental health needs.
NURS 487: Health Care Law
This course is designed to allow students to develop an understanding of the origin and sources of the law as it applies to the Canadian health care system. It stimulates an appreciation for legal terminology, reasoning, and processes as well as the basic principles of law, which apply to and govern the delivery of health care services in Canada. The course is also designed to develop an ability to identify the legal aspects of health care practice, information systems and management as well as an ability to determine when and how to use legal council effectively.
NURS 488: Women’s Health
The focus of this course is currently women’s health issues. Students have the opportunities to critically explore a broad array of women’s health concerns
from various philosophical perspectives including feminist, critical and phenomenological perspectives. Women’s health issues may include such topics as reproductive health, menopause, violence, aging, breast cancer, depression, and sexuality. The class is taught in an interactive format through group discussion, presentations and the participation of guest speakers. The course focuses on the consideration and critique of current influences on women’s health including the effect of the health care system, the impact of the social and cultural context and the influence of evolving technology.
NURS 489: Culture and Health
A critical examination of the relationship between culture and health, and the impact of immigration, colonialism and racialization. Approaches to working within diversity to foster cultural safety are explored with a particular emphasis on health care for First Nations and immigrant people.
NURS 480: Introduction to Academic Scholarship
Do you want to become a better writer? NURS 490 is an elective online credit course to prepare post-RN and Masters nursing students for the demands of academic reading, writing, and scholarship. Students will explore academic writing through a series of scaffolded assignments in reading, writing, revision, and self-reflection. Course delivery will be through a combination of Moodle and Elluminate Live! Course content will cover a wide variety of topics, including academic genres and conventions; the concept of audience and voice; prewriting, writing, and revision strategies; APA style history, philosophy, and usage; data synthesis, summary, and analysis; library research; developing an argument; audience and point of view; techniques for writing with clarity and cohesion; becoming self-aware as a writer; effective presentations; and writing in a variety of academic formats (the summary, the abstract, the essay, the outline, the literature review). Emphasis is on self-directed learning.
NURS 491: Nursing Practice VIII: Transitions
The nursing practice experience provides opportunities for participants to consolidate their learning and explore the transition to professional nursing as a BSN graduate. Participants also explore transitions in the health care system and the workplace that affect nurses. Participants may develop their practice within a specific area, e.g., particular setting of practice, a certain client population, or a specific health challenge.
Prerequisite: NURS 470
Pre- or Corequisite: Nurs 475
Grading: COM/F.
NURS 496: Working with Childbearing Families
This course focuses on nursing care for childbearing families from preconception through the childbearing year. However, because childbearing families frequently also include preschool children, some attention will be given to early childrearing experiences and the growth and development of infants and toddlers. Since childbearing is an embodied experience for the woman, a woman and family-centred approach will be used that also attends to health inequities, material, social, and discursive conditions, and the experiences of all family members. We will explore a variety of family forms cross culturally including Aboriginal and immigrant families, gay and lesbian families, adoptive and foster families, and families where childbearing is aided by reproductive technologies. Since abortion is also a childbearing experience, providing woman-centered care for women choosing to end a pregnancy is also considered.
This course is intended for undergraduate nursing students who plan to work in perinatal, neonatal, rural, or public health nursing. Workshops on labour support, breastfeeding and newborn assessment and stabilization will be arranged to complement classroom and online learning activities. To develop this course we will be working collaboratively with nurses and professionals working within the Vancouver Island Health Authority and with other local family-serving organizations to ensure that it will help prepare nursing students for clinical placements in these exciting and rewarding areas of nursing.
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