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Nursing
| Nursing 051, Health and Chronic Health Challenges | |
| | Description: Introduction to nursing, the profession's historical background and nurse's role in health care. Emphasis is on personal meaning of health, transitions in the life cycle and healthful living practices. The focus is on nursing theories, theories of health promotion, assessment, determinants of health and families' experience with chronic health challenges. | | Corequisite(s): Registration in all courses required for Year 1 of the Basic Nursing Program. | | 3 lecture hours, 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Nursing 053, Self and Others: Self Awareness and Interpersonal Relationships | |
| | Description: This course focuses on understanding intrapersonal and interpersonal experiences. How personal beliefs, values, experiences and perceptions relate to and impact on our experiences with self and others from various cultures is emphasized. The experiential portion of the course will enhance interpersonal communication from the perspective of contextual awareness, decision-making, confidence and performance. | | Corequisite(s): Registration in all courses required for Year 1 of the Basic Nursing Program | | 3 seminar hours, 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Nursing 101w, Introduction to Health and Illness | |
| | Description: This course provides an introduction to the nursing profession, health, illness and health promotion. These concepts are considered from the perspectives of individuals, families and communities. Students will have opportunity to learn about the nursing process, basic assessment skills, and ways in which nursing practice can support those with long-term health challenges. | | Corequisite(s): Nursing 102w, 103w. | | 7 hours lecture per week for 8 weeks, 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Nursing 102w, Professional Nursing Practice 1: Assessment of Health and Illness | |
| | Description: This course provides students with the opportunity to begin to develop the necessary knowledge and skills to engage in health promotion and care of clients with health challenges in a variety of settings. Students will engage in hands-on experience designed to promote the development of clinical nursing skills in laboratory sessions, home settings and long-term care agencies. | | Corequisite(s): Nursing 101w, 103w. | | 10 hours lab/seminar per week for 8 weeks; 32 hours clinical practice per week for 4 weeks, 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Nursing 103w, Introduction to Communication in Health Care | |
| Description: This course focuses on the development of effective and caring interpersonal communication skills. Awareness of self as an individual and in a relationship is explored through critical review of the literature, theories and experiences, critical reflection and thoughtful, confident dialogue. Learners will explore contextual and cultural realities, cultural sensitivity and cultural competence in
healthcare. | | Corequisite(s): Nursing 101w, 102w. | | 7 hours/week for 8 weeks, 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Nursing 150a, Introduction to Professional Practice | |
| Description: Praxis seminars, laboratory practice, and community clinical placements comprise this half-course, providing opportunities to learn about the nursing profession, the diversity of nurses’ work and scope of practice, health promotion and assessment skills. This course provides opportunities to develop caring, professional relationships and apply knowledge from concurrent courses.
| | Antirequisite(s): The former Nursing 052, Professional Practice 1 | | Corequisite(s): Registration in all courses required for Year 1 of the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN program | | 8-10 seminar/lab/clinical practice hours
0.5 course | | back to top |
| Nursing 152b, Professional Practice 1: Caring for Adults with Chronic Health Challenges | |
| Description: Laboratory practice and clinical placements in long term care facilities provides experience for students to learn about the role of the nurse in the care of clients with chronic health challenges. Term 1 health assessment skills, along with practice experiences in the laboratory allow students to develop professional caring relationships in clinical practice.
| | Antirequisite(s): The former Nursing 052, Professional Practice 1 | | Prerequisite(s): Nursing 150a, Introduction to Professional Practice | | Corequisite(s): Registration in all courses required for Year 1 of the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN program | | 12 clinical hours, 4 laboratory hours
0.5 course | | back to top |
| Nursing 200F/G, Nursing Information Literacy and the Scholarly Process | |
| | Description: This course introduces students to information literacy and knowledge acquisition skills necessary for professional nursing practice. Through informatics seminars and self-directed learning modules, students will engage in active learning to assimilate information literacy and informatics as well as writing process skills applicable to scholarly writing and professional practice. | | Corequisite(s): Registration in the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN program | | 4 seminar/lecture hours per week | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Nursing 201x, Health and Illness in Adults | |
| | Description: This course focuses on the adult's experience with a variety of episodic and complex health challenges. Learners develop an understanding of people's meanings and experiences of illnesses. Through praxis and the incorporation of principles introduced in previous and concurrent courses, the learner will continue to develop knowledge and a repertoire of skills to promote health and healing. | | Prerequisite(s): Nursing 101w, 102w, 103w. | | Corequisite(s): Nursing 202x, 203b, 204b. | | 12 lecture/seminar hours for 6 weeks, 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Nursing 202x, Professional Practice II: Adult Health Care | |
| | Description: This course offers the learner an opportunity to develop caring relationships with people experiencing complex episodic health challenges. Learners care for individuals/families and develop proficiency in the domains of practice in a variety of settings including acute care, home care and mental health. | | Prerequisite(s): Nursing 101w, 102w, 103w. | | Corequisite(s): Nursing 201x, 203b, 204b. | | 6 weeks seminar/laboratory: 4 hr/week, 6 weeks clinical hours: 32-36 hr/week, 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Nursing 203b, Therapeutic Relationships in Nursing | |
| | Description: This course focuses on the development of conceptual and experiential understanding of effective interpersonal helping relationships from a nursing science perspective. Students explore their interpersonal style as it impacts upon relationships with clients and colleagues using the RNAO Best Practice Guidelines on Therapeutic Relationships as a framework. | | Prerequisite(s): Nursing 101w, 102w, 103w. | | Corequisite(s): Nursing 201x, 202x, 204b. | | 6 hours lecture/seminar per week for 6 weeks, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Nursing 204b, Professional Nursing Issues I | |
| | Description: This course provides students with the opportunity to further examine students' belief systems and their fit with professional values. An emphasis is placed upon patterns of practice and interdisciplinary team development in the context of professionalism, ethics, credentialing, legalities, rights, professional practice standards, responsibility and accountability. Students will also explore nursing research identifying issues that affect both nurse's morale and practice. | | Prerequisite(s): Nursing 101w, 102w, 103w. | | Corequisite(s): Nursing 201x, 202x, 203b. | | 6 lecture hours/seminar per week for 6 weeks, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Nursing 251, Healing and Episodic Health Challenges | |
| | Description: This course focuses on people's experience with healing related to a variety of episodic and complex health challenges. Through praxis, learners will continue to develop cognitive, interpersonal, organizational, and more advanced communication and psychomotor skills to promote healing and healthy living of individuals and families in a variety of settings. | | Prerequisite(s): Completion of Year 1 of the Basic Nursing Program. | | Corequisite(s): Registration in all courses required in Year 2 of the Basic Nursing Program. | | 4 lecture hours, 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Nursing 252, Professional Nursing Practice II | |
| | Description: Clinical practice to develop caring relationships with people experiencing complex episodic health challenges. Learners care for individual/families in a variety of acute care settings and in transition from hospital to home. Clinical judgment/decision-making are refined in implementing, evaluating, and documenting nursing care. | | Prerequisite(s): Completion of Year 1 of the Basic Nursing Program. | | Corequisite(s): Registration in all courses required in Year 2 of the Basic Nursing Program. | | 14 clinical/laboratory hours, 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Nursing 253a/b, Self and Others: Helping Relationships | |
| | Description: This course focuses on the development of conceptual and experiential understanding of effective interpersonal relationships. Students explore their interpersonal style as it impacts upon relationships with clients and colleagues. Learners participate in decisions about caring for clients and colleagues while initiating, maintaining, and bringing to closure, caring interpersonal relationships. | | Prerequisite(s): Completion of Year 1 of the Basic Nursing Program. | | Corequisite(s): Registration in all courses required in Year 2 of the Basic Nursing Program. | | 3 lecture/seminar hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Nursing 254a/b, Professional Development I: The Nursing Profession | |
| | Description: This course examines the professional practice of nursing. Emphasis is on professionalism, ethics, credentialling, legalities, rights, standards for practice, responsibility and accountability. The function of professional associations and organizations in relation to the maintenance and improvement of standards is explored. | | Prerequisite(s): Completion of Year 1 of the Basic Nursing Program. | | Corequisite(s): Registration in all courses required in Year 2 of the Basic Nursing Program. | | 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Nursing 300, Professional Nursing Issues III | |
| | Description: Application of leadership and management theories, and nurses influencing change at the social, political and professional levels will be explored. | | Antirequisite(s): the former Nursing 400w | | Prerequisite(s): Nursing 101w, 102w, 103w, 201x, 202x, 203b, 204b | | Corequisite(s): Nursing 331, 332, 441w, 442w, 452J | | 2 hours per week for 26 weeks
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| Nursing 314a/b, Independent Study for Registered Nurses | |
| | Description: This course provides an opportunity to explore in more depth one or more of the following: a small research project, a program plan with implementation and evaluation, a philosophical analysis of a concept, theory or issue. Subject to Faculty Procedural Guidelines and approval.. | | Prerequisite(s): Completion of Nursing 361a/b, 362a/b, 319a/b. | | 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Nursing 318a/b, Elementary Statistics | |
| | Description: A self-directed introduction to the analysis of quantitative data using descriptive and inferential statistics, and measures of association and correlation to study nursing and health related problems. The goal is to prepare students to be knowledgable consumers of statistical findings. | | Prerequisite(s): Completion of Year 1 and 2 of the Basic Nursing Program. | | Corequisite(s): Registration in all courses required in Year 3 of the Basic Nursing Program. | | Distance studies for students registered in the POST RN Program.
| | 2 lecture hours, 2 lab hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Nursing 319a/b, Research Methodology in Nursing | |
| | Description: The main goal of this introductory research course is to prepare baccalaureate nurses to engage in research utilization. The research process must be understood so that nurses are able to critically analyze research methods, findings and to appropriately integrate research findings into nursing practice. | | Prerequisite(s): Completion of Year 1 and 2 of the Basic Nursing Program. | | Corequisite(s): Registration in all courses required in Year 3 of the Basic Nursing Program. | | Distance Studies for students registered in the BScN Program for Registered Nurses. | | 2 lecture hours, 2 laboratory hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Nursing 322E, Concepts and Issues in Professional Nursing | |
| | Description: This course will provide an opportunity for Post-RN students to examine, explore and engage the curriculum concepts and philosophies as well as scope of practice issues related to legalities, accountability, rights and responsibilities. Students will engage in critical appraisal and inquiry while articulating views and findings through the writing process. Course format includes seminar sessions and a significant emphasis on scholarly writing. | | Prerequisite(s): Registration in the BScN Program for Registered Nurses. | | Distance Studies; 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Nursing 323w/x, Promoting the Health of Communities | |
| | Description: This course provides an introduction to community health promotion and the influence of socioenvironmental determinants of health on populations. The concepts of community as client, health promotion, determinants of health, and empowering nursing practice are considered. Students will examine a number of theoretical foundations for designing appropriate and effective health care and health promotion strategies. | | Antirequisite(s): the former Nursing 320, 321 | | Prerequisite(s): Registration in the BScN Program for Registered Nurses. | | 6 on-line seminar hours/week | | 10 practice hours/week | | 1.0 course | | back to top |
| Nursing 331, Mental Health and Community Health Promotion | |
| | Description: Concepts of mental health assessment and treatment of adults with mental health and psychiatric disorders are addressed. Community as client, health promotion, determinants of health, and empowering practice are considered. Coursework involves theoretical foundations of health and design of appropriate health care and health promotion stategies. | | Antirequisite(s): the former Nursing 301 | | Prerequisite(s): Nursing 101w, 102w, 103w, 201x, 202x, 203b, 204b | | Corequisite(s): Nursing 300, 332 | | 6 lecture/seminar hours per week for 12 weeks | | 1.0 course | | back to top |
| Nursing 332, Professional Practice III: Mental Health Care and Community Health Promotion | |
| | Description: This course provides students with the opportunity to develop their knowledge and skills in health promoting nursing practice with clients experiencing mental health problems and with communities as clients. Students will engage in learning experiences in mental health settings and community agencies as well as simulated learning experiences and skill building sessions in the laboratory environment. | | Antirequisite(s): The former Nursing 302 | | Prerequisite(s): Nursing 101w, 102w, 103w, 201x, 202x, 203b, 204b | | Corequisite(s): Nursing 300, 331 | | 24 clinical practice/lab hours per week for 12 weeks | | 1.0 course | | back to top |
| Nursing 351, Promoting the Health of Families and Communities | |
| | Description: This course provides a theoretical foundation for understanding family and community health issues. Primary health care, health promotion, family health and community development are critically examined as they relate to family and community health nursing practice in Professional Practice III, Nursing 352. | | Prerequisite(s): Completion of years 1 & 2 of the Western Fanshawe Collaborative BScN program | | Corequisite(s): All courses in year 3 | | 3 - 4 lecture/seminar hours per week, 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Nursing 352, Professional Practice III | |
| | Description: A partnership approach is used to engage families and communities in identifying health issues developing and implementing a health promotion plan. The main goal of this professional practice course is to critically reflect on what constitutes clinical knowledge and skill in family and community health nursing practice. | | Prerequisite(s): Completion of years 1 & 2 of the Western Fanshawe Collaborative BScN program | | Corequisite(s): All courses in year 3 | | 12 - 16 hours per week, 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Nursing 403a, Advanced Health Assessment and Diagnosis I | |
| | Description: Concepts and frameworks integral to advanced health assessment and diagnosis in nursing practice are introduced Comprehensive and focused health assessment, incuding history taking, physical assessment and diagnostic reasoning as well as laboratory and diagnostic test selection andinterpretation for the adult client are emphasized, laying the foundation for clinical decison-making from data collection to diagnostic plan of care. | | 3 theory hours and 3 practice hours, term one, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Nursing 404b, Advanced Health Assessment and Diagnosis II | |
| | Description: This course builds on applies the skills and frameworks, concepts and methods of helath assessmkent and clinical decision-making studied in AHAD I to specific populatons across the lifespan, to families and to the community. Advanced practice skill pertaining to diagnostic test assessment is examined. | | Prerequisite(s): Nursing 403a | | Corequisite(s): Nursing 406b | | 3 theory hours and 3 practice hours, term two, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Nursing 405a, Therapeutics in Primary Health Care I | |
| | Description: Concepts integral to pharmacoltherapy, advanced counseling and complimentary therapies related predominantly to common episodic conditions of clients across the lifespan are introduced. Emphasis is on the therapeutic care plan approach which focuses on drug-related problems, goals of therapies, analysis of different therapeutic approaches, need for referral, monitoring parameters, acceptability to the client, and follow-up. | | Corequisite(s): Nursing 403a | | 3 theory hours and 3 practice hours, term one, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Nursing 406b, Therapeutics in Primary Health Care II | |
| | Description: This course builds on the knowlege acquired in AHAD I and Therapeutics I and applies the frameworks and concepts of pharmacotherapy, advanced counselling, and complimentary therapies predominantly to clients with chronic conditions and special populations. | | Prerequisite(s): Nursing 403a, Nursing 405a | | Corequisite(s): Nursing 404b | | 3 theory hours and 3 practice hours, term two, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Nursing 410x, Synthesizing Concepts and Practice in Nursing | |
| | Description: In a selected area of practice, learners will focus on gaining proficiency, developing leadership skills and independence by working with a preceptor in a mentored relationship wherein they develop professional responsibility and an individual philosophy of practice. On completion, the learner is ready to enter the profession as a novice. | | Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of all courses required for the program. | | 450 clinical/laboratory/seminar hours. | | 1.0 course. | | To be introduced January 2007. | | back to top |
| Nursing 412, Professional Development III: Nurses Influencing Change | |
| | Description: This course focuses on learners' growth as ethical leaders, change agents and professionals. Factors influencing nurses' ability to affect change, such as nursing's image, organizational culture, gender, race, and class will be explored. Leadership and change theories as a basis for effecting social, political, personal, and professional change will be examined. | | Prerequisite(s): Completion of Year 1, 2 and 3 of the Basic Nursing Program. | | Corequisite(s): Registration in all courses required in Year 4 of the Basic Nursing Program. | | Terms 1 - 4 classroom hours, 1.0 course. | | Distance Studies for students registered in the BScN Program for Registered Nurses. | | back to top |
| Nursing 420, Focused Clinical Concepts | |
| | Description: Learners have opportunities to learn advanced concepts related to caring for children, adults and their families who are experiencing complex health challenges. Emphasis is on critical thinking, pattern recognition, decision-making and on exploration and integration of concepts through discussions, simulations and paradigm cases. | | Prerequisite(s): Completion of Year 1, 2 and 3 of the Basic Nursing Program. | | Corequisite(s): Registration in all courses required in Year 4 of the Basic Nursing Program. | | Terms 1 - 4 classroom/seminar hours, 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Nursing 421, Focused Clinical Practice | |
| | Description: This clinical experience provides learners with the opportunity to acquire a proficiency in client care in a selected clinical focus areas, one of which will take place with ill children. Participants will critically reflect on their clinical experiences and relate these to the theories and concepts learned in the Focused Clinical Concepts course. | | Prerequisite(s): Completion of Year 1, 2 and 3 of the Basic Nursing Program. | | Corequisite(s): Registration in all courses required in Year 4 of the Basic Nursing Program. | | Terms 1 - 16 clinical/laboratory/seminar hours, 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Nursing 441w, Child Health and Family Nursing | |
| | Description: This course provides an introduction to child health and family nursing. Family health nursing is addressed across the lifespan including care of expectant families, children and the elderly. Building on learning from levels One, Two and Three, the concepts of child family and community as client, health promotion, determinants of health and empowering practice are considered from the perspectives of children and families. Students will examine a number of theoretical foundations for understanding child and family health and for designing appropriate and effective health care and health promotion strategies. | | Antirequisite(s): the former Nursing 301 | | Prerequisite(s): Nursing 101w, 102w, 103w, 201x, 202x, 203b, 204b, 300, 331, 332 | | Corequisite(s): Nursing 300, 442w, 452J | | 6-8 lecture/seminar hours for 13 weeks | | 1.0 course | | back to top |
| Nursing 442w, Professional Practice IV: Child Health and Family Nursing | |
| | Description: Knowledge and skills in health promoting nursing practice with children and families are developed. Family health promotion is addressed across the lifespan (i.e., expectant families, children, elderly). Learning experiences occur in institutions, home settings, community agencies, and simulated clinical experiences in the laboratory environment. | | Prerequisite(s): Nursing 101w, 102w, 103w, 201x, 202x, 203b, 204b, 300, 331, 332 | | Corequisite(s): Nursing 300, 441w, 452J | | 24 clinical practice/lab hours per week for 13 weeks (2 days per week for 4 weeks in a paediatric placement; 1 day per week for 8 weeks in a family visiting experience; 5 twelve hour tours in an acute care setting) | | 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Nursing 452J, Clinical Concepts Applied | |
| | Description: Selected clinical concepts are applied in acute care settings. Praxis discussions would involve case studies and exemplars involving critical thinking, pattern recognition and decision-making to enable learners to understand how concepts are manifested in the client and how practice is shaped to respond meaningfully. | | Prerequisite(s): Nursing 101w, 102w, 103w, 201x, 202x, 203b, 204b, 300, 331, 332 | | Corequisite(s): Nursing 300, 441w, 442w | | 60-65 hours; 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Nursing 490y, Pathophysiology for the Nurse Practitioner | |
| | Description: A systems approach is used to examine concepts in pathophysiology as a basis for advanced nursing practice. A case study approach provides a comprehensive overview of the etiology, pathogenesis, and clinical manifestations of diseases in adults and children. Builds upon knowledge of normal anatomy and physiology across the lifespan. | | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Nursing 491y, Nurse Practitioner Roles and Responsibilities | |
| | Description: Examination of the roles and responsibilities of the primary care nurse practitioner, historical development, relationships with clients and other health providers, legal and ethical issues, scope of practice and functioning in interdisciplinary teams, primary health policy formulation and political strategies are addressed. | | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | | back to top |
| Nursing 497, Integrative Practicum | |
| | Description: The final course in the program, builds upon knowledge and experience gained in previous courses and integrates theory with practice. Consists of concurrent seminars and practica, evaluated separately. Seminars use problem-based and case study methods. Practica in urban and rural health care settings are based upon student learning needs. | | Prerequisite(s): Nursing 490a/b, Nursing 491a/b, the former 492, the former 493. | | 6 hours seminar, 29 hours practice, 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Nursing 498, Preceptorship: Independent Practice in Nursing - A Synthesis | |
| | Description: The focus of this final clinical experience is on developing proficiency, leadership, and independence in the practice of nursing. Learners will select a clinical area of practice, function as an active member of a multidisciplinary health team, consolidate their nursing skills, and their sense of professional responsibility and identity. | | Prerequisite(s): Completion of all courses required for the Basic Nursing Program. | | Term 2 - minimum 450 hours, 1.0 course. | | back to top |
| Nursing 499, Integrative Practicum for Registered Nurses | |
| | Description: This course requires the application and testing of nursing knowledge and the related disciplines in a setting geared to the student's learning needs and previous professional experience. An approved learning plan, selection of a preceptor/mentor, and guidance by a faculty member are required. | | Prerequisite(s): Completion of all course required for the BScN Program for Registered Nurses. | | Term 2 - minimum of 200 hours, depending on previous clinical experience and learning goals, 1.5 course. | | back to top |
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