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Course ID
Course
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
NURS 318
NURS 318
Clinical Practice: Community Health
Course Credits: 3
This course focuses on experiential learning in community. Emphasis is on collaborative assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of health care within diverse community settings.
Prerequisite(s): NURS 100, 200 level courses and other non-nursing prerequisites designated on curricular pattern
Co-requisite(s): NURS 317
NB: Pass/Fail course.
NURS 322
NURS 322
Nursing Care of Childbearing Families
Course Credits: 3
Concepts of nursing care are related to the health care of women, newborns, children, and families during the childbearing years.
Prerequisite(s): 100, 200 level courses and other non-nursing prerequisites designated on curricular pattern.