Lecture: 4 hours/week
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.
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
Upon the successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Synthesize knowledge to formulate evidence-informed, client-centred nursing decisions for individuals with acute and persistent mental health challenges and community groups;
- Examine population health issues and trends relevant to community and mental health nursing through critical inquiry, reflection, and analytical reasoning;
- 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;
- Describe the role of the nurse within interprofessional teams working with clients in mental health settings and communities.
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.
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.