nursing ethics. Beginning with an understanding

of bio-medical ethics that have dominated nursing
ethics in the past and moving to an understanding

of developing ethical theory related to nursing and
nursing issues, participants will have opportunities to
explore nursing ethics in the context of their nursing
practice.

Pre-requisites: Promotion to Study Semester 4.

NURS 226 - HEALTH & HEALING IV: HEALTH
CHALLENGES/HEALING INITIATIVES

Participants in this course continue to develop an
understanding of people's experiences with healing
related to a variety of increasingly complex chronic
and episodic health challenges within a variety of
practice contexts. This course is complementary to
Health Sciences IV and provides opportunities for
learners to integrate pathophysiology with their
understanding of health and healing and the nursing
approaches that accompany this understanding.

Pre-requisites: Promotion to Study Semester 4.

NURS 229 - PROMOTING
HEALTH AND HEALING

This nursing practice experience continues to
provide opportunities for learners to develop

caring relationships with individuals and familities
for the purpose of health promotion while coming

to understand their health and healing processes
when experiencing more complex health challenges,
both episodic and chronic. Participants will have
opportunities to practice nursing approaches that
accompany this understanding. Participants work with
families and individuals in the home and community,
in agencies, and in care facilities to incorporate
concepts and learning from all the courses in this
semester into their nursing practice. The community
and society are considered as contextual influences
on the promotion of health for the individual and the
family.

Pre-requisites: Promotion to Study Semester 4. Travel
requirement.

NURS 230 - CONSOLIDATED PRACTICE
EXPERIENCE II (SPRING, 6 WEEKS)

In this consolidated practice experience,
opportunities are provided to develop caring
relationships for the purpose of healing and health
promotion with individuals and families experiencing
increasingly complex chronic and episodic health
challenges. The community and society are
considered as contextual influences on the promotion
of health for the individual and the family. Participants
have opportunities to consolidate learning from the
first and second year of the program in a variety of
settings.

Pre-requisites: Promotion to Study CPE. Travel
requirement.

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NURS 316 - COMPLEX HEALTH CHALLENGES

This course builds on Health and Healing I and IL and
Health Sciences IIT and IV and provides opportunities
for participants to build on their nursing knowledge
and understanding of health and healing in relation

to complex episodic and chronic health challenges.
This advanced course will focus on current topics and
emerging knowledge related to a variety of health
care contexts.

Pre-requisites: Promotion to Study Semester 5.

NURS 317 - RELATIONAL PRACTICE

Building on the concepts introduced in Relational
Practice I and II and other previous courses,
Relational Practice III provides a synthesis of
knowledge that is the basis of critical analysis. This
course focuses on enhancing participants' everyday
relational practice with individuals, families, and
groups. The emphasis is on engaging with the
complexities of difference in everyday nursing
practice and the challenges these complexities might
pose for being in-relation with clients.

Pre-requisites: Promotion to Study Semester 5.

NURS 319 - NURSING PRACTICE V:
PROMOTING HEALTH & HEALING

This nursing practice experience continues to
provide opportunities for learners to develop caring
relationships with individuals and families, while
coming to understand their health and healing
process within the context of complex health
issues. Participants will have opportunities to
practice nursing approaches that accompany this
understanding. Participants work with families and
individuals in the home and community, in agencies,
and in care facilities to incorporate concepts and
learning from all the courses in the semester into
their nursing practice, with an emphasis on the
complex health challenges.

Pre-requisites: Promotion to Study Semester 5. Travel
requirement.

NURS 341 - PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
IV: NURSING INQUIRY

(University of Victoria at Selkirk College). In this
course, various modes of nursing inquiry are
addressed. Relationships between practice, theory,
and research are explored. Past and present
contributions to nursing knowledge are discussed.

NURS 342 - GLOBAL HEALTH ISSUES

Participants in this course continue to develop an
understanding of people's experience with health and
healing related to a variety of increasingly 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

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of the global society and the changing health care
environment. Participants examine a variety of
emerging health issues and trends using these
as a context for further developing their personal
understanding of nursing practice that supports
meaningful interactions with individuals, families,
groups, communities and society.

NURS 350 - HEALTH & HEALING
VIE PROMOTING COMMUNITY
AND SOCIETAL HEALTH

This course focuses on the role of the nurse in

the promotion of community and societal health.

It is a companion course with Health and Healing

VI and participants will continue to develop their
competencies in relational practice within the context
of community and society as client. The political role
of the nurse is explored as the emphasis is placed
upon working with communities from a social justice
and equity perspective. Community development

and capacity building, as a pattern of community
health promotion practice, is explored. In addition
students will further develop their understanding of
teaching and learning focusing on transformative and
emancipatory approaches.

Pre-requisites: Promotion to Study Stemester 5. Travel
requirement.

NURS 351 - NURSING PRACTICE
Vi: PROMOTING HEALTH OF
COMMUNITIES & SOCIETY

This nursing practice experience provides
opportunities to develop caring relationships with
families, groups, and communities and/or populations
with emphasis on health promotion and community
empowerment. Participants have opportunities to
work with a community on an identified health issue.

Pre-requisites: Nursing Practice IV. Travel requirement.

NURS 360 - PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Vi: NURSING RESEARCH

(The University of Victoria at Selkirk College). Building
on Professional Practice II and III, the intent of this
course is to enhance participants' understanding of
nursing scholarship and enhance 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.

Pre-requisites: Successful completion of Study Term 6.

NURS 370 - CONSOLIDATED PRACTICE
EXPERIENCE III (SPRING, 6 WEEKS)

(University of Victoria at Selkirk College). This
consolidated practice experience is designed to
provide opportunities for participants to integrate

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