Faculty of Health Sciences
Concepts of Health for Individuals and Families
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
This course provides an introduction to the concepts of community and population health, adult learning principles and strategies, the relationship of evidence to nursing practice, and strategies for individual contributions to effective group process. This course continues to explore concepts of health and wellness for individuals and families.
Substantially Similar:
Nursing 1181
Introduction to Nursing Practice
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 0-0-9
This first nursing practice course provides the foundation for developing therapeutic and caring relationships with clients and introduces concepts of health assessment and basic nursing skills. Practice occurs in the context of healthy or stable individuals and families across the lifespan in different cultural contexts and settings.
Substantially Similar:
Nursing 1182
Introduction to Nursing and Concepts of Health
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
This course provides an introduction to the concepts of health and wellness for individuals and families, the role of the nurse, and the use of group process strategies to support self-directed learning.
Substantially Similar:
Nursing 1181
Health and Physical Assessment
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 0-0-9
This course includes physical health assessment techniques and the practice of basic nursing skills. Practice occurs in the context of healthy or stable individuals and families across the lifespan in different cultural contexts and settings.
Substantially Similar:
Nursing 1182
Nursing Concepts: Individuals and Families
Credit hours: 6.00
Contact hours per week: 6-0-0
The history of nursing, role of the nurse in various settings, and nursing as a profession. An introduction to the dimensions of health and wellness of populations across the lifespan in different cultural contexts and settings.
Substantially Similar:
Nursing 1155;
Nursing 1168
Introduction to Nursing: Assessment and Practice
Credit hours: 6.00
Contact hours per week: 0-0-12
Provides the foundation for developing therapeutic relationships and introduces the concepts of health assessment and basic nursing skills. Learning opportunities in the classroom, lab, and practice environment. Practice occurs in the context of healthy or stable individuals and families across the lifespan in different cultural contexts and settings.
Substantially Similar:
Nursing 1163;
Nursing 1173
Becoming a Nurse
Credit hours: 2.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
An exploration of the disciplinary knowledge base of nursing including an emphasis on multiple ways of knowing that inform the art and science of nursing. Includes an examination of the foundational concepts of nursing as a self-regulating profession, and an introduction to self as a member of the professional nursing community.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to the Bachelor of Nursing program
Personal Health and Wholeness
Credit hours: 2.00
Contact hours per week: 3-1-0
Critical exploration of concepts of health and wholeness from a personal perspective and as an emerging professional. Exploration of principles, practices, and issues related to health, with a particular emphasis on building self-awareness and resilience. Incorporates further knowledge development and integration in the lab environment with an emphasis on learning to provide safe, high-quality nursing care.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to the Bachelor of Nursing program
Substantially Similar:
Health Sciences 1010
Intersectionality and Health
Credit hours: 2.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
An introduction to socio-cultural perspectives on health, healing, and wholeness, founded upon an exploration of diverse identities, health beliefs, and practices. Focus is on intersectionality, cultural safety, and humility, and a particular emphasis on Blackfoot ways of knowing and perspectives on health.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to the Bachelor of Nursing program
Caring Communication
Credit hours: 2.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
An introduction to caring and effective communication to enhance relational practice with clients and families, and within the inter-professional team. Includes therapeutic use of self, and effective team functioning and decision making.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to the Bachelor of Nursing program
Assessing Health
Credit hours: 2.00
Contact hours per week: 3-2-0
Provides the theoretical foundations for assessing health and wellness, and delivering basic nursing care to support health, healing, and wholeness. Includes gathering and interpreting subjective and objective client information for the purposes of providing care to adults.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to the Bachelor of Nursing program
Introduction to Praxis
Credit hours: 2.00
Other hours per term: 0-18-48
Application of foundational nursing knowledge in praxis with adults in a variety of lab and practice settings, with an emphasis on providing safe, high quality nursing care. Includes focus on the integration of caring communication while practicing assessment and basic nursing skills.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to the Bachelor of Nursing program
Grading:Pass/Fail
Nursing and Intersectionality
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Critical exploration of the disciplinary knowledge base of nursing, including diverse concepts of health and wholeness. Focuses on intersectionality, cultural safety and humility, and a particular emphasis on Blackfoot ways of knowing and perspectives on health. An introduction to foundational concepts of nursing as a self-regulating profession.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to the Bachelor of Nursing After Degree program
Assessing Health and Wholeness
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-2-0
Introduction to caring, persuasive communication for effective relational practice in assessing health and wellness, and delivering basic nursing care to support health, healing, and wholeness. Includes applying a broad suite of communication skills to gathering and interpreting subjective and objective client information for the purposes of collaborating with clients and members of the inter-professional team.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to the Bachelor of Nursing After Degree program
Corequisite(s):Nursing 1522 AND
Nursing 1600
Maternity and Pediatric Nursing
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
This course focuses on the experiences of child-bearing and child-rearing families with varied cultural backgrounds in diverse geographical settings. It integrates concepts of health promotion, illness prevention, epidemiology, pathophysiology, and therapeutics.
Medical-Surgical Nursing Practice
Credit hours: 5.00
Contact hours per week: 0-0-15
Explores increasingly complex nursing skills and provision of basic nursing care for adults with acute and chronic health challenges with varied cultural backgrounds. Students will have the opportunity to apply pharmacology, pathophysiology, critical thinking, and clinical judgment to care of adults experiencing illness in acute care settings.
Grading:Pass/Fail
Disruptions in Health I
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
This course provides an introduction to acute and chronic health challenges for adults with varied cultural backgrounds in diverse geographical settings. It integrates concepts of gerontology, health promotion, illness prevention, epidemiology, pathophysiology, and therapeutics.
Corequisite(s):Nursing 2263 AND
Nursing 2279
Rural Nursing Practice
Credit hours: 5.00
Contact hours per week: 0-0-15
Explores increasingly complex nursing skills and provision of basic nursing care for adults with acute and chronic health challenges with varied cultural backgrounds. Students will have the opportunity to apply pharmacology, pathophysiology, critical thinking and clinical judgement to care of adults experiencing illness in rural acute care settings.
Grading:Pass/Fail
Nursing Issues and Health Care in Canada
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
This course is an exploration and examination of professional nursing practice concepts and issues. The focus will be on historical and contemporary roles as well as ethical and legal responsibilities of the Registered Nurse within the context of the nursing profession and the heath care system. Topics include the application of theory to practice, multidisciplinary health care team issues, and professional association and union roles.
Pharmacology and Applied Therapeutics
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
This course provides an introduction to integrative therapeutic modalities including conventional (i.e., allopathic), alternative, and complementary therapies used in health care and the pathophysiologic, psychologic, energetic, and spiritual basis for these therapies. The nurse's role in promoting quality of life through appropriate use of various treatment modalities and dealing with implications and effects is explored.
Maternity and Pediatric Nursing Practice
Credit hours: 5.00
Contact hours per week: 0-0-15
Explores increasingly complex nursing skills and provision of basic nursing care for women, children, and families from various cultural backgrounds. Students will have the opportunity to apply pharmacology, pathophysiology, critical thinking, and clinical judgment to the care of women through the antenatal, labour, delivery, postpartum period and to children experiencing illness in an acute care setting.
Grading:Pass/Fail
Evidence and Praxis
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
An analysis of how multiple ways of knowing and sources of evidence inform nursing practice. Includes learning to access, assess, critique, and incorporate different forms of evidence, with an emphasis on research utilization in nursing practice and the meaningful incorporation of primary and filtered research evidence.
Prerequisite(s):Completion of all Year One requirements in the B.N. program
Corequisite(s):Nursing 2322 AND
Nursing 2321
Health of Persons
Credit hours: 6.00
Contact hours per week: 6-2-0
An examination of chronic and acute health challenges experienced across the lifespan. Incorporates fundamental knowledge of anatomy, pathophysiology, pharmacology, microbiology, and human development into nursing responses to the lived experiences of these challenges, with an emphasis on person centered care. Includes knowledge development and integration in the lab environment with an emphasis on learning to provide safe, high quality nursing care.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to the Bachelor of Nursing or the Bachelor of Nursing After Degree program
Praxis with Persons
Credit hours: 5.00
Contact hours per week: 0-0-16
Building upon a growing knowledge base in holistic health assessment, this praxis opportunity focuses on supporting health, healing, and wholeness at all stages of life, through relational practice, with a focus on the person as the unit of care. Placement experiences in sub-acute and/or post-acute and rural settings will facilitate opportunities for students to expand their view beyond urban hospital practice and participate in person centred care within a multidisciplinary team.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to the Bachelor of Nursing or the Bachelor of Nursing After Degree program
Grading:Pass/Fail
Health of Families
Credit hours: 6.00
Contact hours per week: 6-2-0
An examination of chronic and acute health challenges experienced across the lifespan. Incorporates fundamental knowledge of anatomy, pathophysiology, pharmacology, microbiology, and human development into nursing responses to the lived experiences of these challenges, with an emphasis on family theory and contemporary models of care. Includes knowledge development and integration in the lab environment with an emphasis on learning to provide safe, high quality nursing care.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to the Bachelor of Nursing program
Praxis with Families
Credit hours: 5.00
Contact hours per week: 0-0-16
Building upon a growing knowledge base in holistic health assessment, this praxis opportunity focuses on supporting health, healing and wholeness at all stages of life, through relational practice, with a focus on family as the unit of care. A variety of placement experiences will facilitate opportunities for students to expand their view beyond hospital practice and participate in family-centred care within a multidisciplinary team.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to the Bachelor of Nursing program
Grading:Pass/Fail
Health of Families
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-2-0
An examination of chronic and acute health challenges managed in the acute care setting and experienced across the lifespan. Incorporates fundamental knowledge of anatomy, pathophysiology, pharmacology, microbiology and human development into nursing responses to the lived experiences of these challenges, with an emphasis on family theory and contemporary models of care. Includes knowledge development and integration in the lab environment with an emphasis on learning to provide safe, high quality nursing care.
Corequisite(s):Nursing 3522
Community Health Nursing
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Examination of community health nursing theoretical foundations, values, and principles, using the Canadian Community Health Nursing Standards of Practice as a framework to explore health promotion, prevention/protection, and maintenance/restoration. Explores concepts such as health equity, social justice, and the social determinants of health.
Mutually Exclusive:
Addictions Counselling 3002;
Health Sciences 3002
Substantially Similar:
Addictions Counselling 3002;
Health Sciences 3002
Community and Population Health
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
An introduction to community as client and an exploration of health as a socio-ecological concept. Focus is on population health promotion with the general public and groups experiencing inequities. Incorporates the social determinants of health, and principles of social justice, primary healthcare, and community development.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to the Bachelor of Nursing or the Bachelor of Nursing After Degree program
Mutually Exclusive:
Addictions Counselling 3002;
Health Sciences 3002
Substantially Similar:
Addictions Counselling 3002;
Health Sciences 3002
Praxis in Health Promotion
Credit hours: 6.00
Contact hours per week: 0-0-16
A praxis opportunity to utilize a strengths-based approach with populations in their communities where they live, work, grow, and play. Considering diversity and health inequities, and addressing determinants of health, students will enact the principles of primary health care and implement strategies for health promotion.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to the Bachelor of Nursing or the Bachelor of Nursing After Degree program
Grading:Pass/Fail
Leadership and Change
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
An examination of the individual and collective professional responsibilities of nurses to lead, advocate for, and enact positive change at the inter-professional practice team level, and at organizational and public policy levels. Integrates change theory, advocacy, social justice, equity, cultural safety, relational ethics, communication for change, and the dynamics of power and influence. Includes an exploration of theories, techniques, and strategies for facilitating health change with individuals, creating cultures of practice excellence, and collaboratively leading change towards a preferred future.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to the Bachelor of Nursing program
Mental Health and Addictions
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-1-0
An examination of acute and chronic mental health conditions affecting the lives of individuals. Integrates knowledge of pathophysiology, neurology, and pharmacology with nursing responses to support persons living with these health challenges. Includes a focus on intersectionality, addictions, and alternative perspectives to understanding mental health and addictions. Incorporates further knowledge development and integration in the lab environment with an emphasis on providing safe, high quality nursing care, a continued focus on integration of knowledge around pharmacology, applied therapeutics, and practice of relevant skills, nursing responses.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to the Bachelor of Nursing After Degree program
Mutually Exclusive:
Nursing 3121
Substantially Similar:
Nursing 3121
Mental Health and Addiction
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-2-0
An examination of acute and chronic mental health conditions affecting the lives of individuals. Integrates knowledge of pathophysiology, neurology, and pharmacology with nursing responses to support persons living with these health challenges. Includes a focus on intersectionality, addictions, and alternative perspectives to understanding mental health and addictions. Incorporates further knowledge development and integration in the lab environment with an emphasis on providing safe, high quality nursing care, a continued focus on integration of knowledge around pharmacology, applied therapeutics, and practice of relevant skills, nursing responses.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to the Bachelor of Nursing program
Praxis in Mental Health
Credit hours: 6.00
Contact hours per week: 0-0-16
Engaging in relational practice with individuals experiencing mental health and addiction challenges in acute, rural, and community settings. Emphasis is on person centered care and inter-professional collaboration in meeting the complex needs of individuals.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to the Bachelor of Nursing program
Grading:Pass/Fail
Mental Health Nursing
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
This course focuses on the experiences of individuals, families and communities with increasingly complex mental health challenges across the lifespan.
Leadership in Nursing
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
This course is an examination of the social, economic, ethical and political issues and policies influencing the nursing profession and the health care system. Topics include scope of practice, legal liability, nursing work life, change strategies, leadership/management concepts, and individual responsibility for promoting effective change.
Praxis and the Digital Age
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
An exploration of nursing practice in digital health. Includes an examination of the implications for nursing of: factors that affect the ability to access and use digital technologies, virtual inter-professional health care, digital health coaching and self-care support for chronic conditions, artificial intelligence, the use of big data, social media and marketing to support and promote health, and other emerging trends in digital health.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to the Bachelor of Nursing or the Bachelor of Nursing After Degree program
Disruptions in Health II
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
This course focuses on the experiences of individuals and families with increasingly complex acute and chronic health challenges across the lifespan.
Nursing and Global Health
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
An examination of the epidemiology of health and illness at a global level. Includes an exploration of nursing leadership in global health and collaborative action across disciplines in addressing current and emerging health challenges facing our world.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to the Bachelor of Nursing program
Acute Health Disruptions
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-2-0
An examination of acute and urgent health challenges experienced by adults. Integrates knowledge of pathophysiology, pharmacology, and microbiology into nursing responses to the lived experiences of these challenges with a particular emphasis on nursing management of complex patient care situations. Includes further knowledge development and integration in the lab environment with an emphasis on providing safe, high-quality nursing care.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to the Bachelor of Nursing or the Bachelor of Nursing After Degree program
Praxis in Acuity
Credit hours: 6.00
Contact hours per week: 0-0-16
This praxis opportunity will focus on the integration of theoretical and practical knowledge from the health sciences, social sciences, and nursing practice to guide person-centered and evidence-informed care of adults experiencing acute health challenges. Emphasis is on prioritization and organization, critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and judgment.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to the Bachelor of Nursing or the Bachelor of Nursing After Degree program
Grading:Pass/Fail
Research in Nursing
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
This course is designed to enhance the student's abilities to comprehend, critique and use research in professional practice.
Prerequisite(s):Third-year standing (a minimum of 60.0 credit hours) in the Faculty of Health Sciences
Praxis with Families
Credit hours: 5.00
Other hours per term: 0 - 0 - 152
Building upon a growing knowledge base in holistic health assessment, this praxis opportunity focuses on supporting health, healing and wholeness at all stages of life, through relational practice, with a focus on family as the unit of care. A variety of placement experiences will facilitate opportunities for students to expand their view beyond hospital practice and participate in family-centred care within a multidisciplinary team.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to the Bachelor of Nursing After Degree program
Nursing Leadership and Global Health
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
An exploration of nursing leadership in global health and collaborative action across disciplines in addressing current and emerging health trends and challenges facing our world, and advocacy to reduce global health inequities and the global burden of disease. Integrates elements of change theory, relational ethics, social justice, and the dynamics of power and influence, as well as examines the epidemiology of health and illness at global level.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to the Bachelor of Nursing After Degree program
Evidence and Health
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
An analysis of how multiple ways of knowing and sources of evidence inform nursing practice and the meaningful incorporation of primary and filtered research evidence. Includes learning to critique and incorporate different forms of evidence, with an emphasis on research utilization in nursing practice. Incorporates evidence relating to how technology influences health and professional practice.
Global Health Issues and Trends
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Students will be offered an opportunity to examine psycho-social-spiritual, economic, ethical and political issues influencing health, illness, and healing within both Canadian and global health care arenas. Evidence-based change strategies (e.g., political, marketing, leadership) that address these issues will be explored. Students will identify possible solutions to promote effective and efficient nursing care delivery to clients, families and communities.
Mental Health Nursing Practice
Credit hours: 6.00
Other hours per term: 0-0-208
In this course students initiate, deliver, and evaluate care for individuals, families and populations with acute and chronic health challenges in community and institutional settings.
Substantially Similar:
Nursing 4511
Grading:Pass/Fail
Mental Health Nursing Practice
Credit hours: 5.00
Other hours per term: 0-0-152
In this course students initiate, deliver, and evaluate care for individuals, families and populations with acute and chronic health challenges in community and institutional settings.
Substantially Similar:
Nursing 4510
Grading:Pass/Fail
Community Health Nursing Practice
Credit hours: 6.00
Other hours per term: 0-0-208
In this course students advocate and assume responsibility for holistic care of individuals, families and populations with acute and chronic health challenges in community and institutional settings.
Corequisite(s):Nursing 3020
Grading:Pass/Fail
Rural Nursing Practice
Credit hours: 6.00
Other hours per term: 0-0-208
This practice course offers students more independent and advanced nursing experience in increasingly complex clinical learning situations. Students work collaboratively with individuals, families and populations who have acute and chronic health challenges in community and institutional settings.
Substantially Similar:
Nursing 4531
Grading:Pass/Fail
Medical-Surgical Nursing Practice
Credit hours: 6.00
Other hours per term: 0-0-208
This practice course offers students more independent and advanced nursing experience in increasingly complex clinical learning situations. Students work collaboratively with individuals, families and populations who have acute and chronic health challenges in community and institutional settings.
Substantially Similar:
Nursing 4530
Grading:Pass/Fail
Praxis in Mental Health
Credit hours: 5.00
Engaging in relational practice with individuals experiencing mental health and addiction challenges in acute, rural, and community settings. Emphasis is on client-engaged care and inter-professional collaboration in meeting the complex needs of individuals.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to the Bachelor of Nursing After Degree program
Senior Preceptorship
Credit hours: 15.00
Other hours per term: 0-0-382
A 10-week consolidated, pre-professional, clinical nursing course in a wide variety of community, institutional and cultural settings. The student's practicum schedule is organized according to the assigned schedule of the clinical preceptor. By the end of the course, the student is expected to demonstrate independent clinical decision making and carry a clinical work assignment appropriate for a beginning practitioner with minimal guidance.
Grading:Pass/Fail
Professional Preceptorship
Credit hours: 15.00
Other hours per term: 12-0-350
A minimum ten-week, consolidated 350-hour preceptored clinical practicum to integrate and consolidate nursing knowledge in a selected practice area. Additionally, an online, asynchronous discussion forum that supports students' engagement around professional nursing practice issues, and connection to resources that will support their professional transition.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to the Bachelor of Nursing or the Bachelor of Nursing After Degree program
Grading:Pass/Fail
Collaborative Registration Placeholder
Credit hours: 0.00
This is a placeholder registration for students admitted to the B.N. program who are studying at an associated college.
Note:No fees are assessed for this registration.