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Course ID	Course
NURS 224	NURS 224 Evidence-Informed Practice Course Credits: 3 This course introduces concepts of evidence-informed nursing practice and its alignment with professional standards. Students develop research literacy skills to critically appraise research evidence across select methods. Related attitudes of inquiry, such as open-mindedness and curiosity, are emphasized. Prerequisite(s): 100 level nursing courses and other non-nursing prerequisites designated on curricular pattern. Co-requisite(s): Math 108
NURS 227	NURS 227 Planetary & Global Health Course Credits: 3 This course focuses on global health, planetary health, health equity, humanitarianism and Chrsitian missions, with implications for nursing and interssectoral care. Emphasis is on exploring past and current global health topics, such as global burden of disease,health systems strengthening, public and health policy, human rights, indigenous health,infectious diseases and global disasters. Prerequisite(s): NURS 100 level courses and other non-nursing prerequisites designated on curricular pattern. Permission to participate in this course may be granted on an individual basis for students from other disciplines or educational institutions
NURS 230	NURS 230 History of Nursing Course Credits: 3 This course examines the development of Canadian nursing over the past four centuries, with an emphasis on the twentieth century. Based on an understanding of nursing as rooted in a Christian ethos of caring for strangers, this course critically explores the ways in which religion, politics, gender, race, economics, technology, culture, war, and epidemics have influenced the development of nursing both nationally and globally. Cross-listed: HIST 230 NB: This course is an elective and is not offered every year.
NURS 232	NURS 232 Nursing Care of Adults Course Credits: 3 This course focuses on nursing care of adults experiencing acute, chronic, and palliative conditions in hospital and community-based settings. Emphasis is placed on the nursing process considering physiological, psychological, social, and spiritual responses to illness and health. Prerequisite(s): 100 level nursing courses and other non-Nursing prerequisites designated on curricular pattern. Co-requisite(s): NURS 233
NURS 233	NURS 233 Clinical Practice: Adult Health II Course Credits: 4 This course focuses on experiential learning in the provision of nursing care for adults with acute and chronic illnesses. Emphasis is on the delivery of safe, person-centered and evidence informed health care to adult clients in diverse settings. Clinical reasoning is emphasized in assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care. Prerequisite(s): 100 level nursing courses and other non-nursing prerequisites designated on curricular pattern Co-requisite(s): NURS 232 NB: Pass/Fail course.
NURS 300	NURS 300 Nursing Therapeutics II Course Credits: 3 This course evaluates, applies and integrates principles of nursing therapeutics as single or multiple interventions by the nurse in the care of well and ill persons. Emphasis is on nutritional and pharmacological interventions and related education in the context of care of mental health, childbearing families, and children. Prerequisite(s): 100 and 200 level nursing courses and other non-nursing prerequisites designated on curricular pattern.
NURS 312	NURS 312 Nursing Care and Mental Health Course Credits: 3 This course focuses on nursing care as related to mental health throughout the life cycle in a variety of settings. Emphasis is placed on the nursing process considering psychological, emotional, social, and spiritual responses to mental illness and the promotion and restoration of mental health. Prerequisite(s): 100 and 200 level nursing courses and other non-nursing prerequisites designated on curricular pattern. Co-requisite(s): NURS 313
NURS 313	NURS 313 Clinical Practice: Mental Health Course Credits: 3 This course focuses on experiential learning in the provision of nursing care for clients with common acute and chronic mental health conditions. Emphasis is on the delivery of safe, person-centered and evidence-informed health care to clients in diverse settings. Clinical reasoning is emphasized in assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care. Prerequisite(s): 100 and 200 level nursing courses and other non-nursing prerequisites designated on curricular pattern. Co-requisite(s): NURS 312 NB: Pass/Fail course.
NURS 317	NURS 317 Community Health Course Credits: 3 This course focuses on principles of community health nursing to ameliorate structural vulnerabilities and health disparities thorugh population health strategies, community assessment and development, communicable disease control, interssectional care, advocacy and health policy. Prerequisite(s): NURS 100, 200 level courses and other non-nursing prerequisites designated on curricular pattern. Co-requisite(s): NURS 318

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