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explore and critically reflect upon the political and
socioeconomic forces that have shaped the status
of women in society and the evolution of the nursing
profession. Standards of nursing practice and
responsibility for safe and ethical nursing practice
are explored.

Prerequisites: Admission to the Nursing program.

NURS 116 - HEALTH AND HEALING
I: LIVING HEALTH

This course is an introduction to the meaning of
health including personal, family, community, and
societal health. Participants examine theoretical and
conceptual frameworks of health including health
promotion, primary health care, prevention, and
determinants of health. By reflecting on personal
experiences, participants have the opportunity to
identify personal resources and/or challenges that
impact health as well as recognize the diversity

of beliefs, values, and perceptions held by others.
Opportunities to learn basic health assessment skills
are included.

Prerequisites: Admission to the Nursing program.

NURS 117 - RELATIONAL PRACTICE
I: SELF AND OTHERS

The premise underlying this course is that nursing

is an experience lived between people. Participants
explore the multiple factors that influence their own
capacity to be in caring relation to others. They learn
to question personal perspectives of experience; to
uncover attitudes, beliefs and values; and to share
and acknowledge differences. Emphasis is placed on
a phenomenological attitude to view the structure
and experiences that make up their own and other
people’s lives.

Prerequisites: Admission to the nursing program.

NURS 119 - NURSING PRACTICE I:
INTRO TO NURSING PRACTICE

This course provides an introduction to nursing
practices with opportunities to engage with
healthy families in the community and with nurses
in practice to explore the breadth of nursing
practice. Participants integrate their learning from
other semester one courses with their beginning
understanding of nursing practice.

Prerequisites: Admission to the Nursing program.

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NURS 122 - PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE II:
INTRO TO DISCIPLINE OF NURSING

This course is an introduction to the discipline

of nursing. Participants explore the historical
development of nursing knowledge and theory as
well as contemporary understandings of nursing as a
discipline and the body of knowledge that defines it.
Relationships between practice, theory, and research
are explored.

Prerequisites: Successful completion of semester | of
the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program.

NURS 126 - HEALTH AND HEALING
Il: HEALTH INDICATORS

Building on Health and Healing I, this course
focuses on individual, family, and community health
assessment. Participants have opportunities to
explore and critique theoretical and conceptual
frameworks in relation to health assessment
including early childhood development, family
development, healthy aging, and community
development. Assessment is explored within the
context of decision-making. Opportunities to learn
basic health assessment skills are continued.
Prerequisites: Successful completion of semester | of
the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program.

NURS 129 - NURSING PRACTICE II:
COMING TO KNOW THE CLIENT

The nursing practice experience provides
opportunities to develop caring relationships

with groups, families and individuals across the
lifespan. Emphasis is placed on health assessment
and coming to know how clients understand and
promote their health, and the role of the nurse in
partnering with the client. Participants work with
groups, families, and individuals in the home and
community, in agencies, and in care facilities to
incorporate concepts and learning from all courses in
the semester.

Prerequisites: Successful completion of

semester | - Travel Required.

NURS 130 - CONSOLIDATED
PRACTICE EXPERIENCE |

This practice experience is designed to assist
participants to move forward with the health focus
of year one towards the focus of health challenges in
year two. This course consists of workshops on topics
that are foundational to providing personal care and
time in a practice setting where students have the
opportunity to provide personal care while furthering
the development of their relational and assessment
skills and their understanding of health and health
promotion.

Prerequisites: Satisfactory completion of Winter
semester first year Nursing courses. Current CPR
Certificate (Level HCP).

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NURS 216 - HEALTH AND HEALING III:
HEALTH CHALLENGES/HEALING INITIATIVES

Building on the learners’ understanding of health,
the focus of this course is on people’s experience
with healing for both chronic and episodic health
challenges. Participants integrate theory and
concepts of health as they relate to healing. This
course is complementary to Health Sciences III
and provides opportunities for learners to integrate
pathophysiology with their understanding of health
and healing and the nursing approaches that
accompany this understanding.

Prerequisites: Promotion to study semester 3.

NURS 217 - RELATIONAL PRACTICE
Il: CREATING HEALTH - PROMOTING
RELATIONSHIPS

Building on Relational Practice I, in this course
participants move beyond personal discovery to a
focus on relational caring. The major emphasis of the
course is relational practice with individuals, families,
and groups from diverse backgrounds of age, culture,
and experience. This is an experiential course
designed to deepen the participants’ understanding
of caring and how the connection between caring

and relationship provides the context for health and
healing. Participants explore theories and processes
of caring, relational identity development of self as
nurse, and relational practice as enacted across a
range of settings and contexts.

Prerequisites: - Successful completion of semester Il of
year | of the Nursing program.

NURS 219 - NURSING PRACTICE III:
PROMOTING HEALTH AND HEALING

This nursing practice experience provides
opportunities to develop caring relationships with
individuals and families for the purpose of health
promotion while coming to understand their unique
health and healing processes. Participants will have
opportunities to practice nursing approaches that
accompany this understanding. Participants work
with families and individuals experiencing common
health challenges (both episodic and chronic) 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
and healing for the individual and the family.
Prerequisites: Satisfactory completion of year |
courses. Note: Travel may be required.

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