Nursing Elective: Issues in Nursing Practice Focus

At the end of this course, successful students will be able to:

• Engage in processes of inquiry to enhance their knowledge of concepts and issues that relate to their self-selected nursing practice focus.
• Identify, comprehend and critically reflect on current and emerging issues and trends in their self-selected nursing practice focus and consider implications for their nursing practice.
• Integrate and apply different theoretical perspectives on ethics of care, relational practice, leadership and interprofessional collaboration related to their self-selected nursing practice focus
• Integrate concepts from previous and concurrent courses in expanding their knowledge of their self-selected nursing practice focus.
• Through analysis and synthesis of findings, advance their nursing practice in their self-selected area of nursing focus.
• Demonstrate self-direction, independence, and skill in developing and implementing a learning contract, for addressing individual learning needs and a topic of interest that will advance their practice in their self-selected nursing practice focus.

N.B. In addition to these generic learning outcomes, students will develop specific learning goals.  These goals will be consistent with, but not necessarily limited to, the generic learning outcomes.