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Courses
BScN courses and required credits
| Semester 1 — Fall |
NURS 1170 Communication and Collaboration 1: Self and Others (3,0,0) NURS 1170 Communication and Collaboration 1: Self and Others (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students focus on learning about themselves as individuals and on discovering how the unique person that they are influences their relationships with others. Knowledge of self and others aids in the development of a wide repertoire of interpersonal skills that facilitate personal and professional interactions. The course emphasis is on understanding how personal values and beliefs, experiences, perceptions, gender, culture, and hegemony shape themselves, how they establish relationships, and ways of being.
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NURS 1700 Professionalism and Leadership 1: Introduction to the Profession of Nursing (3,0,0) NURS 1700 Professionalism and Leadership 1: Introduction to the Profession of Nursing (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course is an introduction to the profession of nursing. Students are introduced to the curriculum's foundational perspectives and concepts and how these relate to nursing practice. Students explore nursing history, the evolution of nursing, and the health care system. Students will explore individual and professional values and beliefs with the purpose of developing their professional nursing self-concept. Students critically reflect upon role of gender, race, and class in social construction of nursing as a profession and explore their responsibility for safe and ethical nursing practice while discovering the governing bodies that regulate nursing.
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NURS 1730 Health and Health Promotion 1: Understanding Health (3,0,0) NURS 1730 Health and Health Promotion 1: Understanding Health (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course is an introduction to the meaning of health including personal health, family health, community health, and societal health. Participants examine significant theoretical and conceptual frameworks of health including health promotion, primary health care, prevention, and determinants of health. By reflecting on personal experiences, participants have the opportunity to identify personal resources and/or challenges that impact health as well as recognize the diversity of beliefs, values, and perceptions of health held by others. Opportunities to learn basic health assessment skills are included in this course.
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NURS 1740 Nursing Practice 1: Introduction to Nursing Practice (3,0,4P)(L) NURS 1740 Nursing Practice 1: Introduction to Nursing Practice (3,0,4P)(L)Credits: 3 credits This course is an opportunity for participants to integrate their learning from other Semester One courses with their beginning understanding of nursing practice. Participants are engaged with healthy families in the community and with nurses in practice to explore the breadth of nursing practice.
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BIOL 1592 Human Biology: Anatomy and Physiology 1 (3,0,0) BIOL 1592 Human Biology: Anatomy and Physiology 1 (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course is intended primarily for students taking the Nursing and Respiratory Therapy programs. However, space is also available for Academic students. Students examine the anatomy and physiology of human organ systems over the course of two semesters, while focusing on the relationship between structure and function.
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BIOL 1594 Anatomy and Physiology Laboratory 1 (0,0,2)(L) BIOL 1594 Anatomy and Physiology Laboratory 1 (0,0,2)(L)Credits: This course covers the first half of the laboratory component of anatomy and physiology. Students are introduced to the structure and function of the human body, beginning with an orientation of the body and continuing with the functions of cells, tissues, organs and organ systems (including the integumentary, skeletal, muscular and nervous systems). As well, the healthy functioning of the body and consideration of how each system contributes to overall health and maintenance of homeostasis will be covered.
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ENGL 1100 Introduction to University Writing (3,0,0) ENGL 1100 Introduction to University Writing (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students explore the practices of reading and writing in scholarly contexts by investigating a chosen topic or issue. Students read, critically analyze, and synthesize information and ideas found in appropriate secondary sources and coming from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds. They also develop their abilities to communicate knowledge by composing in the genres and sub-genres of scholarly writing, including the incorporation of research and documentation while using a clear, persuasive, grammatically-correct style.
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| Semester 2 — Winter |
NURS 1800 Knowledge and Critical Inquiry 1: Introduction to the Discipline of Nursing (3,0,0) NURS 1800 Knowledge and Critical Inquiry 1: Introduction to the Discipline of Nursing (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course is an introduction to the discipline of nursing. Students review the historical development of nursing knowledge and theory, exploring contemporary understandings of nursing as a discipline. They develop skills in accessing and evaluating the body of knowledge that defines it. Students begin to develop an inquiry-based approach to learning and application of evidence in nursing practice. Relationships between practice, theory, and research are explored.
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NURS 1830 Health and Health Promotion 2: Health Across the Lifespan (3,0,0) NURS 1830 Health and Health Promotion 2: Health Across the Lifespan (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Building on Health and Health Promotion 1, this course focuses on individual, family, and community health assessment. Participants will have opportunities to explore and critique various theoretical and conceptual frameworks in relation to health assessment including early childhood development, family development, healthy aging and community development. The concept of assessment within the context of decision making is explored. Opportunities to learn basic health assessment skills are included in this course.
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NURS 1840 Nursing Practice 2: Coming to Know the Client (3,0,2,9P)(L) NURS 1840 Nursing Practice 2: Coming to Know the Client (3,0,2,9P)(L)Credits: 4 credits This nursing practice experience provides opportunities to develop caring relationships with groups, families, and individuals across the lifespan. Emphasis will be placed on health assessment and coming to know how clients understand and promote their health, and the role of the nurse in collaborating with the client in this process. Participants work with groups, families and individuals in the home and community, in agencies, and in care facilities to incorporate concepts and learning from all the courses in this semester into their nursing practice.
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BIOL 1692 Human Biology: Anatomy and Physiology 2 (3,0,0) BIOL 1692 Human Biology: Anatomy and Physiology 2 (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students examine the anatomy and physiology of the human organ systems over the course of two semesters, while focusing on the relationship between structure and function.
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BIOL 1694 Anatomy and Physiology Laboratory 2 (0,0,2)(L) BIOL 1694 Anatomy and Physiology Laboratory 2 (0,0,2)(L)Credits: This course is the second half laboratory course in anatomy and physiology. Students in the course will learn about the nervous system and the senses as well as the endocrine, circulatory, respiratory, urinary, digestive and reproductive systems.
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| Semester 3 — Fall |
NURS 2300 Knowledge and Critical Inquiry 2: Nursing Research (3,0,0) NURS 2300 Knowledge and Critical Inquiry 2: Nursing Research (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students will build on their learning from Knowledge and Critical Inquiry 1 increase their understanding of nursing scholarship and enhance their abilities to comprehend, critique, and use nursing and health related research. Students will critically reflect on various scholarly works and research methodologies. Students will critically examine their practice in relation to nursing research and pose research questions for evidence-informed practice.
Prerequisites: NURS 1800 and NURS 1830 and NURS 1840; NURS 2170, NURS 22740 and NURS 2750 (must be taken concurrently)
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NURS 2750 Health and Health Promotion 3: Community Health Nursing (3,0,0) NURS 2750 Health and Health Promotion 3: Community Health Nursing (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students will examine the theoretical underpinnings of nursing practice with clients within the context of community. Students will explore community health nursing, advancing their understanding of health promotion, primary health care, prevention, and determinants of health.
Prerequisites: NURS 1800 and NURS 1830 and NURS 1840 and BIOL 1692
Co-requisites: NURS 2300 and NURS 2740 and HLSC 2660 and NURS 2170
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NURS 2740 Nursing Practice 3: Promoting Health and Healing (2,0,2,13P)(L) NURS 2740 Nursing Practice 3: Promoting Health and Healing (2,0,2,13P)(L)Credits: 4 credits In this nursing practice experience students will develop caring relationships with individuals and families for the purpose of health promotion, understanding their health and healing processes when experiencing more complex health challenges, both episodic and chronic. Students will have opportunities to practice nursing approaches that accompany this understanding. Students will work with families and individuals in the home and community, in agencies, and in care facilities to incorporate concepts and learning from all the courses in this semester into their nursing practice. The community and society are considered as contextual influences on the promotion of health for the individual and the family.
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NURS 2170 Communication and Collaboration 2: Creating Health-promoting Relationships (3,0,0) NURS 2170 Communication and Collaboration 2: Creating Health-promoting Relationships (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students will focus on the nurse's role as teacher. Relational practice is explored with diverse clients across a range of settings and contexts. Students examine a variety of teaching /learning theories, perspectives, and strategies that underlie meaningful interactions with individuals, families, and groups. Students will develop communication skills and knowledge for collaborative practice and group process.
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HLSC 2660 Health Science: Pharmacology (3,0,0) HLSC 2660 Health Science: Pharmacology (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits In this course students will learn foundational knowledge about essential pharmacological principles. Medication safety and the nurses' role in safe medication practice will be emphasized. Students look at medications in relation to body systems and in promoting wellness. Emphasis will be given to recognizing adverse effects and implementing important nursing considerations, client education, and medication administration safety across the lifespan. Students will explore issues within the pharmaceutical industry.
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| Semester 4 — Winter |
NURS 2830 Health and Health Promotion 4: Health Transitions (3,0,0) NURS 2830 Health and Health Promotion 4: Health Transitions (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students will expand their understanding of knowledge that nurses use in practice. The focus is on the client's experience of health, including people living with chronic and episodic health challenges. Students will incorporate multiple sources of knowledge, including pathophysiology into their nursing practice.
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HLTH 2300 Interdisciplinary Indigenous Health (2,1,0) HLTH 2300 Interdisciplinary Indigenous Health (2,1,0)Credits: 3 credits This course introduces students to Indigenous people's health in Canada. Students experience Indigenous ways ofknowing through a decolonization framework, engaging in local knowledge, methodologies and practices ofIndigenous peoples. Students engage in experiential, reflexive learning informed by local Knowledge Keepers. Thecourse embraces Indigenous Knowledge and uses the premise of 'two-eyed seeing'. Students are guided through aninter-professional framework of practice to facilitate collaboration and planning of services to improve Indigenous health.
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NURS 2840 Nursing Practice 4: Promoting Health Transitions (2,0,2,13P)(L) NURS 2840 Nursing Practice 4: Promoting Health Transitions (2,0,2,13P)(L)Credits: 4 credits This nursing practice experience will continue to provide opportunities for students to develop caring relationships with individuals and families for the purpose of health promotion, understanding their health and healing processes when experiencing more complex health challenges, both episodic and chronic. Students will have opportunities to practice nursing approaches that accompany this understanding. Students will work with families and individuals in the home and community, in agencies, and in care facilities to incorporate concepts and learning from all the courses in this semester into their nursing practice. The community and society are considered as contextual influences on the promotion of health for the individual and the family.
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HLSC 2550 Health Sciences: Pathophysiology I (3,0,0) HLSC 2550 Health Sciences: Pathophysiology I (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course focuses on foundational knowledge and concepts related to human pathophysiology. Students will learn about the presentation and pathogenesis of health alterations across the lifespan. In selected units, diagnostics, epidemiology, epigenetics, nutrition, and environmental impacts will be introduced. Topics will be closely aligned with current nursing practice and connected to concepts in other nursing courses.
Prerequisites: NURS 2750, NURS 2170, NURS 2300, NURS 2740, HLSC 2660 (must be take before or at the same time as), NURS 2840 (must be take before or at the same time as), HLTH 2300 (must be take before or at the same time as) and NURS 2830 (must be take before or at the same time as).
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HLSC 2660 Health Science: Pharmacology (3,0,0) HLSC 2660 Health Science: Pharmacology (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits In this course students will learn foundational knowledge about essential pharmacological principles. Medication safety and the nurses' role in safe medication practice will be emphasized. Students look at medications in relation to body systems and in promoting wellness. Emphasis will be given to recognizing adverse effects and implementing important nursing considerations, client education, and medication administration safety across the lifespan. Students will explore issues within the pharmaceutical industry.
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PHIL 2310 Health Care Ethics (3,0,0) PHIL 2310 Health Care Ethics (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students examine the ethical role of the health care provider within the Canadian health care system. Students critically assess a selection of ethically problematic situations that routinely challenge health care providers. The topical issues considered in this course include the relationship among health care providers; care of the elderly; genetic counselling; resource allocation; care of those diagnosed mentally ill; and the ethics of transplantation. These issues are explored within the context of moral theory, common ethical principles, and methodologies arising from interdisciplinary bioethics.
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| Spring Session — May and June |
NURS 2380 Condensed Practice Experience 2 (0,0,22P)(5 weeks) NURS 2380 Condensed Practice Experience 2 (0,0,22P)(5 weeks)Credits: 4 credits This nursing practice experience provides opportunities for students to develop caring relationships with individuals and families for the purpose of health promotion, understanding their health and healing processes when experiencing more complex health challenges, both episodic and chronic. Students will have opportunities to practice nursing approaches that accompany this understanding. Students will work with families and individuals in
the home and community, in agencies, and in care facilities to incorporate concepts and learning from all the courses in this semester into their nursing practice. The community and society are considered as contextual influences on the promotion of health for the individual and the family.
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| Semester 5 — Fall |
NURS 3730 Health and Health Promotion 5: Health Transitions (3,0,0) NURS 3730 Health and Health Promotion 5: Health Transitions (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits In this course, students continue to expand their understanding of knowledge that nurses use in practice. The focus is on the client's experience of health including people living with chronic and episodic health challenges. This course provides opportunity to incorporate multiple sources of knowledge including pathophysiology into their nursing practice.
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NURS 3740 Nursing Practice 5: Promoting Health and Healing (2,0,2,13P)(L) NURS 3740 Nursing Practice 5: Promoting Health and Healing (2,0,2,13P)(L)Credits: 4 credits This nursing practice experience continues to provide opportunities for students to develop caring relationships with individuals and families experiencing complex health challenges while coming to understand their health and healing processes. Students will have opportunities to practice nursing approaches that accompany this understanding. Students work with families and individuals in the home and community, in agencies, and in care facilities to incorporate concepts and learning from all the courses in this semester into their nursing practice.
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HLSC 3650 Health Sciences: Pathophysiology 2 (3,0,0) HLSC 3650 Health Sciences: Pathophysiology 2 (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course builds on concepts introduced in Pathophysiology 1 with an emphasis on complex health alterations. Students will learn about the presentation and pathogenesis of health alterations across the life span. In selected units, diagnostics, epidemiology, epigenetics, nutrition, and environmental impacts will be introduced. Topics will be closely aligned with current nursing practice and connected to concepts in other nursing courses.
Prerequisites: NURS 2830 and completion of all 2nd year core courses; NURS 3730, NURS 3170 and NURS 3740 (must all be taken at the same time or before HLSC 3650).
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NURS 3170 Communication and Collaboration 3: Connecting Across Differences (3,0,0) NURS 3170 Communication and Collaboration 3: Connecting Across Differences (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits In this course, students focus on enhancing relational practice through an exploration of the relational inquiry model for nursing. Students develop skills for communicating in complex situations.
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| Non-nursing elective — 1000 level |
| Semester 6 — Winter |
NURS 3500 Health and Health Promotion 7:Promoting Community and Societal Health (0,3,0) NURS 3500 Health and Health Promotion 7:Promoting Community and Societal Health (0,3,0)Credits: 3 credits The student will focus on the role of the nurse in the promotion of community and societal health as client. The political role of the nurse is explored as the emphasis is placed upon working with communities from a social justice and equity perspective. Strategies for community health promotion are explored.
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NURS 3510 Nursing Practice 6:Promoting Health of Communities and Society (0,3,6P) NURS 3510 Nursing Practice 6:Promoting Health of Communities and Society (0,3,6P)Credits: 4 credits Students have opportunities to develop caring relationships with families, groups, and communities within a societal and global context with emphasis on health promotion and community empowerment. Students have opportunities to work with a community (geographical, self-identified, population based, institutionally based, etc.).
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NURS 3830 Health and Health Promotion 6: Global Health (3,0,0) NURS 3830 Health and Health Promotion 6: Global Health (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students in this course continue to develop an understanding of global health. Emphasis is on broadening student's knowledge of global nursing practice including emerging health issues and trends. Equity and access to health and health care are examined through a global lens
Prerequisites: NURS 2380; NURS 3500 and NURS 3510 (must be taken concurrently). |
| Non-nursing elective — 2000 level |
| Spring Session — May and June |
NURS 3380 Consolidated Practice Experience 3 (0,2.5,0.5,33P)(7 weeks) NURS 3380 Consolidated Practice Experience 3 (0,2.5,0.5,33P)(7 weeks)Credits: 4 credits This Consolidated Practice Experience is designed to provide opportunities for students to integrate, consolidate, and expand concepts from previous learning. Students will have opportunities to consolidate learning from the first, second, and third years of the program in a variety of settings and with any of age or type of client.
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NURS 3390 Consolidated Practice Experience: Focus on International Nursing (0,3,33P)(7 weeks) NURS 3390 Consolidated Practice Experience: Focus on International Nursing (0,3,33P)(7 weeks)Credits: 4 credits This experience is designed to provide opportunities for participants to integrate their learning from previous semesters and to advance their clinical practice in an international nursing context. Participants travel to a selected international site to practice nursing in a variety of settings which may include acute care, community and primary care settings.
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| Semester 7 — Fall |
NURS 4300 Professionalism and Leadership 2: Leadership in Nursing (3,0,0) NURS 4300 Professionalism and Leadership 2: Leadership in Nursing (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course is designed to explore leadership and professionalism in nursing from a systems-level and organizational perspective. Students are encouraged to build on their foundational knowledge of nursing leadership and critically analyze the health care system and organizations within it. Students explore how nurses lead, influence, create, and manage change for the promotion of health. The role of the nurse as leader within the current and evolving Canadian health care system is explored. Students analyze organizational and systemic issues that nurses face, with an intent
towards influencing change.
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NURS 4740 Health and Health Promotion 8:Health Transitions in Complexity(3,0,0) NURS 4740 Health and Health Promotion 8:Health Transitions in Complexity(3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students build on their nursing knowledge and understanding of health and health promotion in relation to complex episodic and chronic health challenges. This advanced course will focus on the nurses' role in client-centered care in increasingly complex contexts. Students examine current and emerging issues that affect nursing practice.
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NURS 4380 Nursing Practice 7:Promoting Health and Healing in Complexity (0,2,14P)(13 weeks) NURS 4380 Nursing Practice 7:Promoting Health and Healing in Complexity (0,2,14P)(13 weeks)Credits: 4 credits This nursing practice experience continues to provide opportunities for students to develop caring relationships with individuals and families experiencing complex health challenges while coming to understand their health and healing processes. Students will have opportunities to practice nursing approaches that accompany this understanding. Students work with families and individuals in the home and community, in agencies, and in care facilities to incorporate concepts and learning from all the courses in this semester into their nursing practice.
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HLSC 4650 Health Sciences: Pathophysiology 3 ( 3,0,0) HLSC 4650 Health Sciences: Pathophysiology 3 ( 3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course builds on the concepts introduced in Pathophysiology 1 with an emphasis on complex health alterations. Students will learn about the presentation and pathogenesis of health alterations across the lifespan. In selected units, diagnostics, epidemiology, epigenetics, nutrition, and environmental impacts will be explored. Topics will be closely aligned with current nursing practice and connected to concepts in other nursing courses.
Prerequisites: NURS 2380; NURS 3500, NURS 3510 and NURS 3830 (must all be taken before or at the same time as HLSC 4650)
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| Non-nursing elective — 3000 level |
| Semester 8 — Winter |
NURS 4210 Nursing Practice 8: Transitioning to BSN Graduate (0,3,36P) NURS 4210 Nursing Practice 8: Transitioning to BSN Graduate (0,3,36P)Credits: 10 credits This nursing practice experience provides opportunities for students to consolidate their learning and prepare for assuming the role of BSN graduate. Students also explore and critique changes and issues in the health care system, and the workplace, that affect nurses. Students develop their nursing competencies and enhance their nursing knowledge so that they may practice in a variety of settings at a novice level. Students may choose to focus their practice within a specific area, for example, a particular setting of practice, a certain client population, or a specific health challenge.
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