Course

Nursing Practice V

Important Notice

This course is not active. Please contact Department Chair for more information.

Faculty
Health Sciences
Department
Nursing
Course Code
NURS 3100
Credits
8.00
Semester Length
15
Max Class Size
Seminar/Other 36, Laboratory 24, Nursing Practice Experience 8
Method(s) Of Instruction
Lab
Seminar
Field Experience
Typically Offered
To be determined

Overview

Course Description
This nursing practice experience provides participants opportunities to develop caring relationships with individuals, families, and groups with an emphasis on prevention. Integration of the practice of teaching/ learning is an essential element. In addition, participants have opportunities to broaden their experience of nurses’ collaborative roles within an interdisciplinary team.
Course Content

In Nursing Practice V, participants focus on individuals’ (infants, children, adolescents, and adults), families’, and group’s experiences with health and healing, with an emphasis on prevention. This course includes nursing practice and laboratory experiences, pediatric community/family visits, and praxis seminars.  Nursing practice experiences involve working with clients and their families experiencing common and predictable pediatric, mental health, and other health challenges. In the nursing laboratory, nursing practice skills commonly used in caring for clients in pediatric and mental health settings are addressed.  Course learning activities also include a community agency or service visit that focuses on infants, children, or adolescents and the other with emphasis on family support.

In praxis seminars, participants address concepts from semester courses, such as:

  • natural sciences
    • pathophysiology
    • pharmacology
  • evidence-based practice
  • epidemiology
  • prevention
    • primary
    • secondary
    • tertiary
  • community
    • resource
    • context/culture
  • teaching/learning challenges
  • learning theory and strategies
  • influence of environment on teaching/learning
  • teaching with different groups
  • health education from a primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention perspective
  • nursing practice with clients with a variety of health challenges
  • decision making for nursing practice
  • ethical decision-making
  • continuity of care
Learning Activities

In this course, participants learn about professional nursing practice, critical thinking, and critical reflection. Practice experiences are supported by seminars, which provide opportunities to examine theories and concepts through discussion, exploration, and integration. Praxis involves the examination of the dynamic interplay between theory and practice. Praxis is actualized by critical reflection, journaling, and active participation in nursing practice seminars. Participants also explore the role of the nurse in relation to the promotion of health and healing.

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.  Respect for individual choice and an openness to negotiation guide decisions about methods of evaluation.

An appraisal form is used that encompasses the five domains of nursing practice (health and healing, teaching/learning, decision making for nursing practice, professional responsibility, collaborative leadership), competencies, and quality indicators.  Quality indicators incorporate the minimal semester requirements and address what participants should know, be, and do by the end of the semester.  Nursing practice congruent with the quality indicators is an essential component of successful completion of this course.

This is a mastery course.

Learning Outcomes

In this course, participants have opportunities to:

  • develop and refine their nursing practice with a focus on prevention, using community as a resource
  • engage in teaching/learning processes and in interdisciplinary collaboration in institutional and community settings
  • develop an appreciation for the integral role of epidemiological data and clients’ personal experiences (meaning and behaviour) in prevention
  • incorporate ethical decision-making into nursing practice
Textbook Materials
  1. Planned Praxis Experience
    • Personal experience
    • Nursing practice experience in pediatric and mental health settings
    • Community agency or service visit with a focus on infants, children, or adolescents
    • Community agency or service visit with a focus on family support
  2. 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.
  3. Other Resources
    • Nursing practice resources
    • other resource books and journals
    • community resources
    • health professionals
    • selected audiovisual and computer resources
    • nursing laboratory equipment and supplies

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.

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 3100
There are no applicable transfer credits for this course.

Course Offerings

Fall 2024