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Advanced Nursing Therapeutics for Care of Persons Experiencing Complex Multi-System Health Challenges 

Students apply advanced critical thinking and judgment and apply the nursing process in care of persons experiencing complex multi-system physical and mental health problems across the life span. Emphasis is on the interaction among multiple developmental, biophysical, psychosocial, spiritual,and sexual functions and structures for persons experiencing complex co-morbidities and chronic illness.

Students build their understanding of health assessment, health education, self-management, support, and restoration and apply advanced nursing therapeutics including pharmacological and complementary therapies. A one hour weekly virtual clinical application review is a required component of the course. 

 

Care of Persons Experiencing Acute, Episodic & Life-Threatening Illness across the Life Span II

Students build their competence in the care of persons experiencing acute, episodic and life-threatening illness with emphasis on the aging population. Students apply theories related to select common current and emerging acute, episodic and life-threatening illness. Concentration is given to biophysical concepts for select genital-urinary, immune and lymphatic, integumentary, muscular-skeletal, and neurological and sensory disorders. Students advance their application of evidence and best practice guidelines.

 

During this integrated practice experience, students focus on the care of persons experiencing complex multi-system physical and mental health challenges (co-morbidities and chronic illness) and caring for multiple persons. Principles of primary health care and the nursing process are applied.

Opportunities to strengthen previous theoretical application, critical thinking and judgment, evidence-informed practice, communication skills, and therapeutic skills through the care of persons and families experiencing complex comorbidities and chronic physical and mental illness and in the care of multiple persons. Includes clinical applications.

 

Students critically examine local and global contemporary issues in nursing, nursing education, and delivery of health care. Students also critique theories that guide nursing practice, knowledge development approaches in nursing, and health information and communication technologies. Particular emphasis is on transitioning from student to beginning practitioner role and on professional career development that includes values clarification, professional image, professional socialization, nursing licensure and regulation, and inter-professional practice. 

 

Students critically examine population and public health issues, focusing on select local and global communicable diseases, chronic diseases, injuries, population emergencies and disasters, and millennium development goals.

Understanding how nurses work inter-disciplinarily and inter-sectorally to prevent and address complex and current local and global population health issues is a focus.

Emphasis is also on various roles of the interdisciplinary team to influence determinants of health and systems of change.

In this integrated practice experience, students select a focused area of nursing from a variety of practice, policy, or research settings in order to integrate, refine, and apply competencies in professional and ethical practice., theoretical and critical thinking, leadership and interprofessional collaboration, application of evidence-informed practice, and psychomotor skills.

Efforts are made to place students in practice settings related to their concentrated area of study in nursing.

 

 

This theory and practice course focuses on a systematic assessment of the well adult. Students will incorporate health history and physical examination of body systems in identifying self-care requisites for a diverse population.

 

During this final practice experience, students consolidate nursing knowledge and entry-to-practice competencies. The focus is the transition from the student to baccalaureate graduate registered nurse role through a mentored experience. Students assume responsibility for learning and increasingly complex assignments as they near the end of their baccalaureate education. Application of relevant evidence and best practice guidelines is required.

Includes 440 hours of clinical practice experience.

 

 

The off-campus Bachelor of Education cohorts are designed specifically for the elementary stream. Anyone interested in becoming a secondary teacher is welcome to apply to the on-campus program. The off-campus cohorts are hosted in various parts of Nova Scotia, offered over the course of three years, and is considered full-time with classes running weekends (in-person) and some evenings (virtually). Each of the four practicum is a five-week long, full-time commitment. As such, you would need to plan to take breaks from any daytime employment for the duration of each filed experience placement. Placements have an increase in teaching responsibilities, starting from 25% in the first placement and moving to 100%.

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This course will examine the key concepts of designing and project or program of action that cultivates positive social change. Emphasis will be placed on the values, principles and critical thinking skills involved in strategic planning, along with participatory project management processes and tools to achieve outcomes for the well-being of all, particularly the most marginalized. It will give participants and opportunity to reflect on their own experiences and to learn from examples of participatory social change. Participants will be challenged to shift their mindset and to select and adapt tools to fit their situation and development context, creating spaces to allow community-led development to flourish. Learning Outcomes: Participants will deepen their understanding of the social change process as a result of the course. This includes the ability to: *Identify practical strategies for creating inclusive, participatory spaces in development practice; *Analyze complex situations and identify potential pathways of social transformation; * Develop knowledge and skills to facilitate community-led processes; * Understand methods to explore, plan, implement, reflection, and assess development initiatives; * Gain new insights by exchanging practical skills and ideas for managing social change initiatives with diverse cohort; and * Select and integrate participatory monitoring, evaluation and learning methods into your work.