NURS 229 Nursing Practice III: Promoting Health and Healing

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the learner will be able to:

1. Establish and maintain caring, culturally aware relationships with clients with increasingly unstable and complex health challenges
2. Utilize learning theory to create and apply learning plans when teaching individuals and family in collaboration with the interprofessional team
3. Use the decision making model to plan, implement and evaluate individualized and devolving care for more than one stable person
4. Adapt their approach to assessments in order to effectively assess people in a variety of situations
5. Implement organizational and time management skills in delivery of nursing care
6. Independently and safely administer medications, using a variety of routes within their scope
7. Apply principles of effective documentation within the context of agency guidelines
8. Demonstrate safe nursing practice through active participation and construction of knowledge, skills, professionalism, and ethics
9. Critically examine the impact of multiple and differing perspectives on person and family centered care in the practice setting
10. Examine current health care practices in relation to clients’ experience of health and health promotion across the health care spectrum (i.e. individual- community-global)
11. Utilize assessment data from a variety of interprofessional team members when providing care for clients with chronic and episodic health challenges
12. Reflect into professional practice how power imbalances which exist in the nurse-client relationship and/or systemically in health care contribute to racism, stigma, discrimination and a sense of vulnerability
13. Apply inquiry and information literacy skills to support nursing practice through use of evidence-informed literature and decision support tools
14. Explore risks and impacts of climate change related health challenges in discussions with individuals and families