Healing II: Complex Episodic Health Challenges

Overview

Course Description

Participants in this course continue to develop an understanding of people’s experience with healing related to a variety of increasingly complex episodic health challenges. Participants further develop their repertoire of nursing practise skills, including critical thinking, decision making, relational, organizational, and psychomotor skills to promote healing. Emphasis is placed on an increase in participant self-directedness.

Course Content

The focus of this course is individuals and families with increasingly complex episodic health challenges and the nurses’ role in promoting health and healing. This course includes seminar and nursing laboratory experiences.

In seminar, course concepts are addressed in relation to the four foundational concepts (ways of knowing, personal meaning, time/transitions, and culture/context), integrating the metaconcepts, health promotion and caring. Participants’ experiences, interests, and choices are considered. Course concepts and essential content are as follows:

acute pain
abuse (e.g., self, others, system)
anxiety/fear
control (e.g., empowerment, mobility/immobility, loss [including loss of reality, loss of consciousness], invasions, balance/imbalance, ethical dilemmas, technology)
courage
hardiness
healing (e.g., restorative, spirituality, relief, freedom, culture)
resilience
suffering
transition (e.g., experience with information, observation, degeneration, altered cellular growth, trauma)
trust
unpredictability (e.g., ambiguity, unfamiliarity, instability, unknown technology)
vulnerability (e.g., fatigue, invasion, violation)

In the nursing laboratory, a variety of nursing practice skills commonly used in caring for clients with complex episodic health challenges are addressed.

Learning Activities

Using an interactive format for simulations, paradigm cases, and other learning experiences, participants gain an experiential knowledge of the course concepts with a variety of increasingly complex episodic health challenges. Participants continue to integrate knowledge from clients’ (individual and family) lived experiences, nursing theory, nurses’ work, pathophysiology, and pharmacology in developing a broader view of these challenges. Through personal experience, participants have opportunities to further develop nursing practice skills, including critical thinking, decision making, relational, organizational, and psychomotor skills.

Means of Assessment

Course evaluation is consistent with Douglas College Curriculum Development and Approval policy. An evaluation schedule is presented at the beginning of the course. There is a minimum of three assessments which typically include exams, quizzes, papers, and/or student presentations. Respect for individual choice and an openness to negotiation guide decisions about methods of evaluation.

This is a graded course.

Learning Outcomes

In this course, participants have further opportunities to:

foster understanding of their personal meaning of varying and increasingly complex episodic health challenges
explore nurses’ work in relation to people’s experiences with health and healing
integrate theoretical knowledge within a moral and caring context
learn to practice safely through their ability to perform more complex practice skills, further developing their critical thinking, decision making, relational, organizational, and psychomotor skills
become increasingly self-directed

Textbook Materials

Textbooks and Materials to be Purchased by Participants: [and other Learning Resources]

Planned Praxis Experience
- personal experience
- nursing practise experience with people’s experience with increasingly complex health challenges
- community agency or service visit with a focus on individuals’ and families’ experiences with complex episodic health challenges
- home family visit with a focus on individuals’ and families’ experiences with complex episodic health challenges
Textbooks and Materials to be Purchased by Participants
- A list of recommended textbooks and materials is provided for participants at the beginning of each semester.
Other Resources
- selected readings
- selected audiovisual and computer resources
- nursing laboratory equipment and supplies

Requisites

Prerequisites

NURS 2110 + NURS 2140 OR NURS 2190

Students in the BSN program are required to maintain a passing grade of C in all courses in order to progress in the program.

Corequisites

NURS 2200 + NURS 2240 (recommended)

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.

September 2009 (Current)