Course

Nursing Practice: Beginning Client Care

Faculty
Health Sciences
Department
Nursing
Course code
NURS 2113
Credits
5.00
Semester length
15 weeks
Max class size
8
Method(s) of instruction
Clinical
Course designation
None
Industry designation
None
Typically offered
To be determined

Overview

Course description
This clinical course emphasizes nursing practice with adults and older adults experiencing health challenges in various settings. Students will apply the core curriculum concepts and content from the semester’s theory and health assessment courses. Students will expand and deepen their understanding of health promotion and relational practice and develop their nursing identity.
Course content

Role of the Nurse

  • Clinician
  • Professional
  • Communicator
  • Collaborator
  • Coordinator
  • Leader
  • Advocate
  • Educator
  • Scholar

Nursing Process

  • Assessment
  • Diagnosis
  • Planning
  • Implementation
  • Evaluation

BCCNM

  • Entry-level Competencies
  • Professional Standards
  • Practice Standards
  • Scope of Practice: Standards, Limits, and Conditions

CNA Code of Ethics

 

 

Learning activities

Faculty will facilitate the student's integration of nursing theory and promote the development of critical inquiry, clinical reasoning and judgement through learning activities such as decision-making analysis, discussion, reflective writing, and practice appraisal. 

Means of assessment

This is a mastery course. 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 the successful completion of the course, students will be able, with assistance, to:

1. Apply the BSN Department's Conceptual Framework including:

  • Curriculum themes (critical inquiry, leadership, and relational practice);
  • Curriculum threads (health promotion, interprofessional collaboration, teaching and learning, nursing art and science, and health); 
  • The ethic of care;

2. Integrate concurrent nursing theory, concepts, and knowledge into clinical practices;

3. Demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and judgment to provide safe, competent, ethical, compassionate, and evidence-informed care as outlined in the BCCNM Entry-level Competencies;

4. Demonstrate culturally safe, trauma and violence-informed practices as they relate to the diversity of the individual's lived experience, including the physical, mental/emotional, and spiritual care.

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.