Expands the student’s knowledge and understanding of professional autonomy, identity and leadership practices. The focus is on leadership theories, concepts and skills necessary to provide high-quality nursing care. Delegation, decision-making, budgeting and strategies to influence health care policy are addressed. Students will gain knowledge of tools and processes that enhance leadership ability and gain insight into their own leadership style and its impact on others. From a leadership perspective, students will explore a range of ethical values and issues in practice including social justice, health equity, and regulatory issues, recognizing and responding to moral and ethical problems and dilemmas.

Focuses on knowledge acquisition of the research process, including appraisal of evidence, application of quantitative and qualitative methodologies, critical reasoning, and the key steps of the research process. The emphasis will be on evidence informed practice, research and organizational change, research ethics, and an introduction to project management.

Provides students will the opportunity to participate in advanced topic seminars reflecting a range of complex care situations focusing on problem identification and resolution, ethical problem solving within organizational contexts, relational care with individuals, families and communities and within inter-professional teams. Student will have an opportunity to focus in a particular clinical setting to communicate effectively while learning to advocate in a variety of relational contexts. Application of evidence-informed practice will be integrated into classroom discussion, assignments and discourses.

Provides students with the opportunity to demonstrate integration and synthesis of previously-acquired and new nursing and related knowledge, attitudes and skills in carrying out safe and effective nursing practice in collaboration with the patient/client and the health care team.

Affords students with the opportunity to demonstrate integration and synthesis of previously-acquired and new nursing and related knowledge, attitudes and skills in carrying out safe and effective nursing practice in collaboration with the patient/client and the health care team. Students’ practice will demonstrate integration of leadership and advocacy concepts.

Offers students the opportunity to demonstrate integration and synthesis of previously-acquired and new nursing and related knowledge, attitudes and skills in carrying out safe and effective nursing practice within the community health care team and collaboratively with individual patient/client.