Welcome to GNUR 548 Nursing Practice in Multiple Practice Settings! This course provides learners with the opportunity to explore the roles and responsibilities of nurses working with older adults in various settings. Participants will engage in interdisciplinary team collaboration in acute, long-term care, and community settings, explore community programs supporting healthy aging, and have opportunities to be health educators and mentors. Throughout this course, learners will apply principles of reflective practice, critical thinking and problem-solving, evidence-based practice, and compassionate, client centred care. Assessment will be based on entry-to-practice nursing competencies and BC College of Nurses ad Midwives Professional and Practice standards.
- Teacher: Christina Champlin
- Teacher: Liz Cleyn
- Teacher: Holli Norberg
- Teacher: Amanda Ovington
- Teacher: Amanda Rabello
This supervised practice experience provides students with an opportunity to apply knowledge and skills from all courses in the program to-date with individuals living in a complex care setting. A portion of this nursing experience will be devoted to providing nursing care to individuals experiencing cognitive challenges and/or end-of-life needs. Opportunity will be provided for students to gain expertise and confidence with the role of the geriatric nurse within a complex care facility.
- Teacher: Liz Cleyn
- Teacher: Amanda Ovington
- Teacher: Amanda Rabello
This class will allow the student opportunities to learn and demonstrate skills in providing personal care and physical assessments. In addition, classes will focus on learning material that apply skills particular to the Canadian Health care system and care of the older adult with an emphasis on assessment proficiency, psychomotor skills and documentation abilities.
Image: Shelly Boyd, Sinixt, touches the waters her ancestors knew at ʔ aʔ kłkəkniʔ by the ferry in Harrop, B.C. It is a place for gathering roots, hunting bear and caribou and fishing for trout and salmon. “Kekeńí” means Kokanee salmon, or “place of redfish.” Photo: Mike Graeme / The Narwhal (shared with permission)
- Teacher: Holli Norberg
This is a lab-based course that provides learners with an opportunity to work within a simulated environment, where learners practice applying and refining their approaches to care of older adults experiencing a wide range of health-related issues. The lab is set up as a place where co-learning and problem-solving form the basis of self-evaluation and formative and summative instructor evaluation.
Each class will cover one or more of the following:
- Chart review – what are you looking for?
- Risk identification, planning and assessments
- Provision of care
- Evaluation of care
- Interprofessional team roles and responsibilities
- Documentation
- Communication (therapeutic relationships and interprofessional collaboration)
- Practice exams
Pre-class preparation activities are to be completed prior to class to enhance learning and optimize the lab time.
- Teacher: Benjamin Dowell
GNUR 540: Physical Aging and Chronic Disease Management Part 3. This is the last in the 3 Physical Aging and Chronic Disease Management courses. In this course we will continue exploring specific body systems and the effects aging has on various body functions. Additionally we will explore common diseases, their contributing and mitigating factors and health management strategies.
- Teacher: Katrina Verschoor
GNUR 440: Physical Aging and Chronic Disease Management Part 1. This is the first of the 3 Physical Aging and Chronic Disease Management courses. In this course we will begin exploring specific body systems and the effects aging has on various body functions. Additionally we will explore common diseases, their contributing and mitigating factors and health management strategies. This course will be followed by GNUR 530 in semester 3 and GNUR 540 in semester 4.
- Teacher: Katrina Verschoor
This course focuses on the development of self-awareness, increased understanding of others and development of effective interpersonal communication skills that can be used in a variety of care giving contexts. Students will be encouraged to reflect on the impact of their own communication choices and patterns. They will have the opportunity to develop and use communication techniques that demonstrate personal awareness, respect and active listening skills.
- Teacher: Amanda Ovington
Palliative care is the unique way caregivers think, respond, and act as they give skilled and compassionate care to a dying person and the support system of that person. This course begins by helping each nurse understand their own personal and cultural perceptions of death and palliation by reflecting on their experiences with dying people. After exploring the concept of a Palliative Approach each participant will gain specific and current knowledge about symptom assessment and management, and how to deal with selected palliative emergency situations. Particularly unique aspects of caring for the dying, e.g, family care, communication, grief, and self-care will be explored.
- Teacher: Amanda Ovington
GNUR 533 Introduction to Nursing Leadership is a dynamic course for new and aspiring leaders. Learners will develop strong interpersonal and team building skills while exploring their own personal philosophy of leadership. Students will focus on and develop skills to manage conflict in the workplace, build team performance, collaborate effectively with others, problem solve, and manage change while pursuing personal improvement and development as future leaders in the health care system.
- Teacher: Amanda Ovington