Develops a beginning knowledge base about the history and role of the nurse within the health care system and society. Will include an introduction to principles, concepts, and theories foundational to nursing practice. Particular emphasis is placed on the development of self, caring, and relational practice.

Offered in the Fall term only - Lecture - Credit Weight:0.5 

Examines the role of self within a broader social context, while the student develops an understanding of the concepts of nursing that promote health. Students will be introduced to the perspectives of health and health promotion, principles of primary health care, and social determinants of health.

Develops a knowledge base with an emphasis pertaining to the role of self within a professional therapeutic nurse-client relationship. Establishing and developing trust within the therapeutic nurse-client relationship through the use professional therapeutic communication skills will be emphasized within lecture, laboratory, and clinical settings.

Building on previously learned concepts students will apply the concepts of functional health patterns in laboratory and clinical settings. Within clinical experiences students will apply the principles, concepts, and theories that promote the health and comfort of clients.

Nursing 1080 Applied Anatomy and Physiology

Examines the interrelationships of body organ systems, chemical and cellular aspects, and the normal organization, structure, and function of the human body. The concepts of metabolism, fundamental physiological needs, and homeostasis are introduced. All knowledge is applied to the clinical study of human body systems, including a systematic and holistic approach to body system assessments.

Promotes an understanding of professional knowledge in nursing by exploring what constitutes knowledge, information and evidence. A beginning appreciation of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies will be fostered including the development of critical reasoning skills in identifying, consuming, and applying appropriate forms of knowledge and information in nursing practice.

This introductory course is designed to provide an appreciation of the scope of psychology and its sub-specialities, to render an understanding of the research-based methods which are fundamental to all aspects of the discipline, to provide an awareness of the biopsychosocial bases of behaviour and to lay the groundwork for further study in psychology.

An introduction to probability; the binomial, poisson and normal distributions; analysis of data; statistical inference; ANOVA; linear regression and correlation; nonparametric methods.