Nursing Art and Science: Professional Foundations
Curriculum guideline
Lecture: 4 hours/week
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.
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
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate beginner-level knowledge about the role of nurses, the nursing profession, and the professional standards and competencies in contemporary nursing practice;
- Expand their perspective of health, and identify factors that contribute to wellness and health promotion;
- Acknowledge individual experiences of health and health challenges as unique and influenced by personal meaning;
- Describe common and predictable health challenges and health transitions of the older adult;
- 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;
- Critically reflect on how theory and research influence practice.
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.
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.
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.