Course

Nursing Art & Science: Community & Mental Health

Faculty
Health Sciences
Department
Nursing
Course code
NURS 3411
Credits
3.00
Semester length
15 weeks
Max class size
36
Method(s) of instruction
Lecture
Course designation
Certificate in Global Competency
Industry designation
None
Typically offered
To be determined

Overview

Course description
In this course, a population health approach is used to address the nursing care of individuals with acute and persistent mental health issues and substance use disorders. In addition, clients in these settings may experience acute or chronic medical comorbidities. Students build on previous learning, integrating the core curriculum concepts and content from the semester's theory and health assessment courses. This course provides the theory required to provide safe, competent, ethical, compassionate, and evidence-informed care for clients in mental health and community settings. Students complete one half of the semester in mental health and the other half in community health.
Course content

Community and Mental Health

  • Cultural safey, cultural humility, and anti-racist practices
  • Justice, equity, diversity, inclusivity
  • Respect
  • Working with Indigenous peoples
  • Sexual orientation, sexual identity, diversity, and inclusion
  • Violence and abuse
  • Refugees and immigrants
  • Health literacy
  • E-health literacy
  • Marginalization
  • Advocacy
  • Resilience/strengths

Nurse’s Role

  • Prevention
  • Health maintenance
  • Living with health challenges
  • Client-centered care  
  • Nursing practice decision-making
  • Trauma and violence-informed practices

Community Health

  • Principles of population health
  • Nursing practice initiatives to achieve a healthly society

Mental Health

  • Mental health challenges (chronic, persistent, and acute)
  • Global, national, and provincial mental health initiatives
  • People who use substances
  • Recovery
  • Harm reduction
  • People who are unhoused
  • People who experience economic disadvantage
  • Epigenetics
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 evidence-informed, client-centred nursing decisions for individuals with acute and persistent mental health challenges and community groups;
  2. Examine population health issues and trends relevant to community and mental health nursing through critical inquiry, reflection, and analytical reasoning;
  3. Integrate knowledge from a variety of sources to explore people's experiences of social or economic marginalization, or disproportionate impacts of factors influencing physical and mental health;
  4. Describe the role of the nurse within interprofessional teams working with clients in mental health settings and communities.
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 3411
There are no applicable transfer credits for this course.

Course Offerings

Winter 2025

CRN Days Instructor Status
Maximum seats
32
Currently enrolled
28
Remaining seats:
4
On waitlist
0
Building
Coquitlam - Bldg. D
Room
D2023
Times:
Start Time
12:30
-
End Time
16:20
CRN Days Instructor Status
Maximum seats
32
Currently enrolled
27
Remaining seats:
5
On waitlist
0
Building
Coquitlam - Bldg. D
Room
D1023
Times:
Start Time
12:30
-
End Time
16:20