This final practice experience provides an opportunity for learners to demonstrate integration and consolidation of knowledge, skills and abilities within the realities of the workplace, and become practice ready.
- Teacher: Shannon Kenning
This course provides learners with the foundational knowledge for caring and professional communication in nursing. An experiential and self‐reflective approach is used to develop self‐awareness and interpersonal communication skills in the context of safe, competent and collaborative nursing practice. Topics include communication theory, the nurse‐client relationship, therapeutic communication, cross‐cultural communication and effective teamwork.
- Teacher: Shannon Kenning
This course builds on the theory and practice from Levels 1 and 2. Through a variety of approaches (e.g., simulation), learners will continue to develop knowledge and practice of comprehensive nursing assessment, planning for, and interventions with clients experiencing multiple health challenges in a variety of settings.
- Teacher: Shannon Kenning
This course provides learners with the foundations of disease and illness across the lifespan. Learners will gain an understanding of pathophysiological alterations of body systems. Nursing management of disease and illness across the lifespan with an emphasis on interventions and treatment is also discussed. Cultural diversity in healing practices is explored as well as the incorporation of evidenced-informed practice.
- Teacher: Shannon Kenning
- Teacher: Kristen Bird
- Teacher: Benjamin Dowell
- Teacher: Summer Gauvreau
- Teacher: Sargent Hayden
- Teacher: Chris Hillary
- Teacher: Angelene Phillips
- Teacher: Candace Smalldon
- Teacher: Rob Tanner
This practice experience provides learners with the opportunity to integrate theory from all courses into the role of the Practical Nurse in the acute care setting and other practice areas as appropriate. Learners will focus on clients with exacerbations of chronic illness and/or acute illness across the lifespan and will consolidate knowledge and skills such as post-operative care, surgical wound management, intravenous therapy, focused assessment and clinical decision making in acute care settings.
- Teacher: Simone Fischer
- Teacher: Shannon Kenning