Course

Nursing Art and Science: Acute Health Challenges

Faculty
Health Sciences
Department
Nursing
Course code
NURS 2211
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
In this course, students are introduced to the nurse’s role in caring for adults with common and predictable acute health challenges, focusing on perioperative experiences. Students build on previously learned knowledge and integrate new knowledge. Students will explore the theory necessary to develop the skills, attitudes, and abilities required to provide safe, ethical, competent, compassionate, and evidence-informed adult nursing care.
Course content

Adult medical-surgical clients:

  • Growth and developmental considerations
  • Considerations for older adults
  • Common and predictable acute health challenges
  • Health challenges requiring surgical intervention
  • Fatigue
  • Infection
  • Loss of consciousness 
  • Mobility/immobility
  • Social determinants of health

Nursing care:

  • Perioperative experience
  • The nursing process
  • Decision-making
  • Adverse events
  • Patient education

Pain:

  • Management
  • Physical, psycho-social, spiritual

Anxiety and fear:

  • Hospitalization
  • Separation
  • Courage
  • Trauma
  • Body integrity
  • Dying
  • Complications
  • Recovery
  • Control
  • Hardiness
  • Resilience

Safety:

  • Client/family safety
  • Nurses’ work environment

Teaching and learning:

  • Preoperative
  • Postoperative
  • Discharge planning

Legal responsibilities:

  • Client rights
  • Advocacy
  • Confidentiality
  • Informed consent
  • Reporting and documentation
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 the successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Synthesize knowledge to formulate client-centred nursing decisions;
  2. Examine health issues and trends relevant to the medical-surgical context through critical inquiry, reflection, and analytical reasoning;
  3. Employ a relational perspective to explore individuals' experiences of health challenges;
  4. Apply knowledge from a variety of sources to plan care for adult clients in a medical-surgical setting;
  5. Describe the role of the nurse within an interprofessional team.
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

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 2211
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
31
Remaining seats:
1
On waitlist
0
Building
Coquitlam - Bldg. C
Room
C2002
Times:
Start Time
12:30
-
End Time
16:20
CRN Days Instructor Status
Maximum seats
32
Currently enrolled
31
Remaining seats:
1
On waitlist
0
Building
Coquitlam - Bldg. C
Room
C2002
Times:
Start Time
8:30
-
End Time
12:20