Course

Nursing Art and Science: Professional Foundations

Faculty
Health Sciences
Department
Nursing
Course code
NURS 2111
Credits
3.00
Semester length
15 weeks
Max class size
36
Method(s) of instruction
Lecture
Course designation
None
Industry designation
None
Typically offered
To be determined

Overview

Course description
This is the first in a Nursing Art and Science course series. Students will explore the three interrelated concepts: professional nursing practice, health, and nursing practice with older adults. Students are introduced to the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM) Standards and Competencies. Emphasis is placed on the nurse's role in the healthcare system, promoting health and wellness, and the relationship between nursing theory, research, and practice. Students will be introduced to tools to aid in developing critical reflection, clinical reasoning, and judgment in their nursing practice.
Course content

Professional Nursing Practice:

  • Professionalism
  • Nursing image
  • The role of nurses and other healthcare professionals
  • Interprofessional collaboration
  • Current trends and issues in nursing (introduction)
  • Professional Organizations
  • CNA Code of Ethics

BCCNM:

  • Professional standards
  • Practice standards
  • Scope of practice
  • Entry-level competencies

 Legal Responsibilities:

  • Legal issues
  • Client rights
  • Documentation
  • Confidentiality

The Douglas College Decision-Making Framework:

  • Evidence-informed practice

Health and Health Promotion:

  • Theories and models (introduction)
  • Historical approaches to health
  • Wellness and health maintenance
  • Determinants of Health
  • Choice
  • Responsibility
  • Cultural safety, humility, and anti-racist practices
  • Health profile, personal health, and health risk
  • Personal empowerment
  • Prevention (introduction)
  • Nutrition

Older Adults: Health, Health Challenges, and Transitions:

  • Common and predictable health challenges and transitions associated with aging
  • Individual experiences of health, health challenges, and aging
  • Beliefs and values
  • Principles guiding nursing practice with older adults
    • Growth and development - considerations of the older adult
    • Theories of aging
  • Experience and interpretation of health challenges and transitions (e.g. loss, courage, resilience, independence, dependence)
  • Factors affecting wellness (e.g., isolation, loss, stress, potential for abuse)

 Nursing Care:

  • Holistic older adult assessment
  • Older adults who are higher risk for poor health outcomes
  • Provision of supportive care
  • End-of-life-care
  • The nursing process
Learning activities

Faculty will facilitate the student's integration of nursing theory and promote the development of critical inquiry, clinical reasoning and judgment through learning activities such as lectures, group discussions, client-based scenarios, and using electronic resources.

Means of assessment

This is a graded course, and the means of assessment are consistent with the Douglas College Evaluation Policy. The instructor's course outline will be available to students by the first class and list the evaluative components of the course.

Learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Demonstrate beginner-level knowledge about the role of nurses, the nursing profession, and the professional standards and competencies in contemporary nursing practice;
  2. Expand their perspective of health, and identify factors that contribute to wellness and health promotion;
  3. Acknowledge individual experiences of health and health challenges as unique and influenced by personal meaning;
  4. Describe common and predictable health challenges and health transitions of the older adult;
  5. Integrate knowledge in planning safe, ethical, competent, compassionate, and evidence-informed nursing care with older adults experiencing a disruption in their health and quality of life;
  6. Critically reflect on how theory and research influence practice.
Textbook materials

The instructor's course outline will be available to students by the first class and list the required textbooks and materials that students must purchase.

Requisites

Prerequisites

Students in the BSN program are required to maintain a passing grade of 65% (C+) in all courses in order to progress in the program.

Corequisites

NURS 2112 AND NURS 2113 AND

NURS 2114 AND NURS 2116

Equivalencies

No equivalent courses.

Course Guidelines

Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.

(Current)

Course Transfers

These are for current course guidelines only. For a full list of archived courses please see https://www.bctransferguide.ca

Institution Transfer details for NURS 2111
Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) No credit
Thompson Rivers University (TRU) TRU NURS 1XXX (3)

Course Offerings

Winter 2025

CRN Days Instructor Status
Maximum seats
32
Currently enrolled
33
Remaining seats:
-1
On waitlist
0
Building
Coquitlam - Bldg. C
Room
C2002
Times:
Start Time
8:30
-
End Time
12:20
CRN Days Instructor Status
Maximum seats
32
Currently enrolled
28
Remaining seats:
4
On waitlist
0
Building
Coquitlam - Bldg. C
Room
C2002
Times:
Start Time
12:30
-
End Time
16:20