Seminar: 2 hours/week
Faculty will facilitate the student's consolidation of nursing theory and promote the development of critical inquiry, clinical reasoning and judgment through learning activities such as lectures, discussions, client-based scenarios, student presentations, independent study, and using electronic resources.
- Core curriculum themes and threads
- Quality assurance and improvement
- Healthcare policy
- Resource management
- Risk management
- Organizational culture and climate
- Power and politics
- Leadership and management
- Relational practice
- Health promotion
- Prevention
- Global and societal health trends
- Moral distress and ethical decision-making
- Quality of nurses’ work lives
- Professional support networks
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Provide safe, ethical, competent, compassionate, and evidence-informed nursing care that is grounded in professional integrity and pride and that honours the perspectives of self and others as unique beings who affect and are affected by their context or environment;
- Formulate nursing practice decisions that promote health through critical inquiry, reflection, and analytical reasoning processes that are informed by multiple sources of knowledge;
- Engage with individuals, families, groups, and communities in various settings to promote health and well-being, using a relational perspective, an ethic of caring, and a trauma and violence-informed approach;
- Demonstrate leadership qualities that promote and support an interprofessional collaborative model of client-centered care and influence the future of nursing practice at a political, social, and professional level to attain quality care for clients and quality work environments for nurses;
- Meet the BC College of Nursing and Midwives (BCCNM) requirements for professional practice as identified in the Entry-level Competencies for Registered Nurses in BC, the BCCNM Standards for Practice, and the Canadian Nurses Association’s (CNA) Code of Ethics for Registered Nurses.
This is a mastery course. 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.