Introduction to practical nursing practice. Focus is on nursing care of adult clients and their families in a continuing care facility.

Exploration of legal and ethical implications in practical nursing. Focus is on incorporating nursing values and ethics, the nursing process, and the scope of practice into care of an individual with acute illness.

Introduction to concepts, theories, and practices for practical nursing of maternity clients and their families. Focus is on family-centered care and client teaching for childbearing families.

Introduction to concepts, theories, and practices for practical nursing of pediatric clients and their families. Focus is on family-centered care and client teaching for families with children.

Introduction to practical nursing for mental health clients. Focus is on the promotion of mental health, prevention and management of mental illness, and community resources.

Introduction to concepts, theories, and practices of community health nursing. Focus is on health promotion strategies for communities as client.

Application of practical nursing theory in an acute medical and surgical setting for nursing care of adult clients and their families. Focus is on acute variations of chronic illness in a hospital setting.

Introduction into career planning and preparation for graduate practice. Focus is on resume writing, job interview preparation, registration requirements, and developing a study plan for the licensure examination.

A concentrated clinical practice experience for consolidation of practical nurse theory and practice. Focus is on Entry-Level Competencies for LPNs and transition to graduate practice.

The focus is the application of human anatomy and physiology to the concepts of pathophysiology and pharmacology. The course focuses on alterations to normal physiology and introduces the concepts of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics in relation to alterations in health.

The course develops an understanding of self as a learner in a health professions context. It explores the foundations of professional nursing, relational practice and therapeutic communication. The course promotes reflection on personal perspectives and experiences to understand one's own attitudes, beliefs, and values. It fosters resilience and explores strategies for self-management and growth.

This course explores the impact of life challenges on health and development, with a strengths-based focus and understanding of Goals of Care.

This course explores the meanings of health and healing. It highlights the diversity of beliefs, values, and perceptions of health. The course introduces the Canadian Health Care System, conceptual frameworks of health promotion, determinants of health, disease and injury prevention, and primary health care. The focus is on the nurse/client relationship in a relational practice context.

The focus is on the health assessment of the adult, and expected health assessment findings throughout the lifespan. The course provides a beginning foundation of the nursing process as framework for developing assessment skills and use of clinical technologies necessary for determining client health status and provision of care.

Introduction to the structure of the human body and an introduction to human physiology.

An introduction to reading, understanding and interpreting comonly used statistics in published health sciences research. The course provides a hands-on approach to understanding measurement, sampling, and statistical analysis techniques commonly used in health care research. It introduces the concepts of information literacy, health data and big data in electronic datasets and the statistical techniques used to interpret this data in meaningful ways.

The course explores selected episodic and chronic health alterations and the related pharmacological concepts. The focus is on applying foundational knowledge of pathophysiology and pharmacology to evidence-informed nursing practice.

The focus is on evidence informed assessment and management of health challenges in both episodic and chronic illness. This course aligns with concepts from NS2160 and NS2210 intentional clinical learning activities.

This practicum in acute care settings develops beginning knowledge, skills, and abilities to provide safe ethical patient care for adults with episodic and chronic health challenges. Intentional clinical learning activities integrate evidence-informed knowledge from NS2200 and NS2160. The focus is on assessment, clinical reasoning, care planning, and documentation in paper and digital formats.

This course is offered in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action, and is the beginning step to culturally safe interaction and practice. Focus is on introducing students to a variety of historical realities and contemporary issues relevant to Indigenous health in Canada. Students will examine issues and contributions facing settler relations from a historical, contemporary and critical perspective, with a focus on health and well-being.