This comprehensive course introduces the structure of the human body and its relationship to the function and integration of the twelve body systems as well as how they work to maintain homeostasis. Learners will gain an in depth understanding of the organization of the human body from the chemical and cellular level to the tissues, organs and organ systems. This course will also facilitate understanding of the terminology associated with the human body.

This course focuses on knowledge essential to understanding nursing as a profession. The history and roles of nurses will be examined along with a review of influential nursing theorists and conceptual frameworks. Learners will discuss the nursing process and how it relates to providing individualized, culturally competent, person-centered care. Ethical and legal issues will be examined with emphasis on critical thinking and reflective practice.

This course provides a foundation for the principles underlying nursing actions and decision-making required to plan and provide safe, holistic person-centered care to individuals requiring assistance with basic needs. Nursing competencies introduced in the classroom are practiced and assessed in the nursing laboratory.

The ability to perform dosage calculations correctly is essential to safe nursing practice. This course provides an overview of mathematical concepts and operations foundational to medication administration. The course includes a review of basic mathematics followed by an examination of measurement systems; document use and medication orders; oral and parenteral medication calculations; and calculations regarding solutions and intravenous infusions. Proficiency in this course underpins safe nursing practice.

Through practice and reflection, learners nuture personal and professional relationships using interpersonal communication skills. With a focus on other-oriented communication, learners demonstrate how inequities and power dynamics influence relationships.

This first-year composition course introduces learners to academic writing and critical thinking. They read and analyze sociopolitical, cultural, and gender issues in texts with an emphasis on experiences of people whose voices were historically silenced, particularly those of Indigenous communities in Canada. Learners develop strategies to communicate their own ideas and integrate them with those of others by quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing source material. Learners present their written assignments professionally according to APA formatting guidelines.

The pharmacokinetics of medications, the rationale for their use and the expected results of therapy are discussed, along with the development of critical thinking skills to assess the need for, and patient response to medication. Practical nurse competencies, the scope of practice and legal responsibilities are also emphasized.
Pre-requisites: ANAT1101, COMM1101, ENGL1201, NURS1101, NURS1202, and NURS1301

The knowledge of pathophysiology is related to the causes, treatment, and usual courses of illness. Learners are provided with a body systems approach to common health care issues, focusing on physiological changes that occur with alterations in biological health.
Pre-requisites: ANAT1101, COMM1101, ENGL1201, NURS1101, NURS1202, and NURS1301

Focus on physical, psychosocial and cultural health assessment of the adult population. Emphasis falls on differentiating normal from abnormal findings and the significance of the findings. A nursing lab component requires learners to demonstrate competence in adult health assessments.
Pre-requisites: ANAT1101, COMM1101, ENGL1201, NURS1101, NURS1202, and NURS1301

In this course, learners will gain knowledge and skills needed to provide high quality, relational care for the older adult. Learners will focus on meeting the complex physical, emotional, and cognitive needs for this diverse population by examining best practices in the field of elder care. Through a holistic and person centered approach, this course examines the experience of aging, common challenges in older adulthood, and nursing care interventions aimed at maintaining or restoring optimal health and functioning.
Pre-requisites: ANAT1101, COMM1101, ENGL1201, NURS1101, NURS1202, and NURS1301

Holistic interdisciplinary care is emphasized within the framework of professional nursing. Focus is on the principles underlying nursing actions and decision making required for planning and providing safe nursing care to patients using a body system approach. Nursing competencies introduced in the classroom are practiced and assessed in the nursing laboratory.
Pre-requisites: ANAT1101, COMM1101, ENGL1201, NURS1101, NURS1202, and NURS1301

Learners will implement research skills to provide safe, organized nursing care focusing on activities of daily living, medication administration, and health assessments in a continuing care setting. Working with a variety of health team members and communicating with individuals in care and staff will be a focus.
Pre-requisites: NURS1102, NURS1103, NURS1201, NURS1203, and NURS1504

This course provides a comprehensive overview of human growth and development and typical behavioural responses throughout the lifespan. You will analyze human development across four domains: physical, cognitive, social, and emotional. Emphasis is placed upon the stages of development and their linkage to common events occurring during these stages.

Family-centered introduction to the needs and nursing care of childbearing families. Community resources and client teaching needs are addressed. Learning will be focused on the care of the mother and infant during pregnancy, labour and delivery, and the postpartum period within the context of the family.
Pre-requisites: NURS1102, NURS1103, NURS1201, NURS1203, and NURS1504

This course is a family-centered introduction to the needs and nursing care of child rearing families. Community resources and client teaching are addressed. Learners will be provided an introduction to common health issues of children and related nursing care using a body system approach.
Pre-requisites: NURS1102, NURS1103, NURS1201, NURS1203, and NURS1504

Holistic interdisciplinary nursing care and skills are emphasized within the framework of the nursing process. Focus is on the principles underlying nursing knowledge required to care for clients in the medical/surgical environment. Nursing competencies introduced in the classroom are practiced and assessed in the nursing laboratory.
Pre-requisites: NURS1102, NURS1103, NURS1201, NURS1203, and NURS1504

Learners explore nursing roles and activities in varied practice settings within the community. The frameworks of population health, levels of prevention, primary health care, and determinants of health are used to identify populations at risk and formulate community health promotion strategies.
Pre-requisites: NURS1401, NURS2204, NURS2501, NURS2502, and PSYC1201

Learners are provided an introduction to the assessment, treatments, and nursing interventions for patients with psychiatric and mental health issues. Basic mental health concepts, therapeutic relationships, and assessment strategies are applied within the context of the nursing process, and legal and ethical practices.
Pre-requisites: NURS1401

Aging, while an individual experience, is also an experience that is heavily influenced by social structures and social processes. Using the sociological perspective, this course explores contemporary aging by examining choices and experiences that transcend the individual and incorporate larger social groups and processes. In doing so, learners build a foundation in sociological concepts and theories to apply this knowledge to age-related issues. Learners consider demographic factors leading to population aging; the role of social structures and processes in shaping experiences of physical aging; as well as aging in relation to health systems, retirement, social engagement, and family in Canadian society.

Critical thinking and reflective practice are emphasized within the framework of the nursing process. Learners will provide holistic care and plan for a client with complex health care issues to transition back into the community. Learners will also develop skills and competencies in interdisciplinary and primary health care models.
Pre-requisites: NURS1401, NURS2204, NURS2501, NURS2502, and PSYC1201

In this course, learners bring forward nursing knowledge to examine current trends and issues in nursing practice. Underpinned in entry-level competencies for Licensed Practical Nurses, learners explore the roles of the Practical Nurse as a collaborative member of a heath care team, a leader, an advocate and a novice researcher.

In this course, critical thinking and reflective practice will be emphasized as learners return to the acute care setting to provide holistic care and plan for transition back into the community for clients with complex health care needs. This experience will be used to consolidate knowledge and skills and move toward independent nursing practice.
Pre-requisites: NURS2402 and NURS2503

Learners will work in health care settings and have opportunities to apply knowledge, perform skills, and critically think in a variety of practical situations. They will also have the opportunity to use evidence-informed practice to consolidate knowledge and nursing competencies, as well as apply critical thinking strategies in situations that challenge and nurture a novice nurse.