Pre-requisites: BIOL 164 with a "C" or better or written permission of the Instructor and Schoo! Chair. ELECTIVE 001 - 3 CREDIT ELECTIVE 3 Credit elective course. Please view the UAS Course List for available options. ELECTIVE 003 - 3 CREDIT COURSE 3 Credit elective course. Please view the UAS Course List for available options. ELECTIVE 004 - NURSING ELECTIVE Must be a 300 or 400 Nursing course. ENGL 110 - COLLEGE COMPOSITION English 110 is about thinking and writing. You will learn how to develop and express informed opinions on issues that matter. You will also learn about research, editing, and expository and persuasive academic writing forms. Pre-requisites: A “C” or better in ENGL 12 or equivalent or LPI level 4 or written permission of the Instructor and School Chair. NURS 112 - PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE I: INTRO TO PROFESSION OF NURSING This course is an introduction to the profession of nursing. Participants examine the foundational concepts of the curriculum and how the concepts relate to nursing practice. Participants also explore the history of nursing and have the opportunity to 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. Pre-requisites: 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. Pre-requisites: Admission to the nursing program. selkirk.ca/programs 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. Pre-requisites: 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. Pre-requisites: Admission to the nursing program. 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. Pre-requisites: Admission to the 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. Pre-requisites: Admission to the 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 NURSING selkirk.ca/nursing 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. Pre-requisites: Admission to the nursing program. 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. Pre-requisites: Admission to the nursing program. NURS 216 - HEALTH & 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. Pre-requisites: 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. Pre-requisites: Promotion to Study Semester 3: Relational Practice | Selkirk College Academic Calendar 2017-18 169