NURS 229 Nursing Practice IV: Promoting Health & Healing. This nursing practice experience provides opportunities for learners to develop caring relationships with individuals and families for the purpose of health promotion while coming to understand their health and healing processes when experiencing more complex health challenges, both episodic and chronic. Participants will have opportunities to practice nursing approaches that accompany this understanding. Participants work with families and individuals in acute care medical settings to incorporate concepts and learning from all 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.
Prerequisites: Satisfactory completion of Year 1 courses.
Corequisite: Year 2 Nursing Courses
Crosslisted: None
Accessibility Services Notice
Students who would like an academic accommodation and who have a documented disability should contact Accessibility Services, if they have not already done so.Course Details| Total number of weeks | 15 |
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| Total Credits | |
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| Total Hours | 240 |
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Typical hours per week breakdown| Lecture | 2 |
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| Other | 14 |
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the learner will be able to:
- apply theory from studies in Health and Healing, Relational Practice, Ethics, Pathophysiologic, Microbiologic, and Pharmacologic Concept Application, elective courses and previous practice courses to their nursing practice in an acute care medical setting.
- demonstrate safe, professional nursing practice.
- apply principles of teaching and learning in the context of client and family education.
- apply critical thinking, clinical judgment, organizational and decision-making skills when caring for clients in a variety of situations.
- identify appropriate rationale when performing psychomotor skills.
- perform psychomotor skills safely and skillfully.
- practice their communication techniques in order to communicate effectively with their clients, peers, members of the health care team and their nursing instructor.
- adapt their approach to client assessments in order to effectively assess clients in a variety of situations.
- the learner will engage in inter-professional practice with a variety of disciplines to provide safe nursing care.
Grading Table
| Grade |
Description |
| AAV |
ABOVE AVERAGE -The student has mastered all or most course objectives/requirements in a minimum time frame and has exemplified good work and study habits. |
| COM |
COMPLETE – denotes that the student has mastered a satisfactory number of course objectives/requirements in a non-credit course |
| CRG |
CREDIT GRANTED - denotes that the student performance was satisfactory in a credit course. |
| NCG |
NO CREDIT GRANTED - denotes that the student performance was unsatisfactory. |
| PCG |
PARTIAL CREDIT GRANTED – denotes that the student has successfully completed a portion of the course objectives in a credit course. |
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Disclaimer
Information contained in this course outline is correct at the time of publication. Content of the course is revised on an ongoing basis to ensure relevance to changing educational, employment and market needs. The instructor will endeavor to provide notice of changes to students as soon as possible. The instructor reserves the right to add or delete material from courses.