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Program Requirements
This concentration is a two-year program. Part-time studies over three to five years are also an option for students. The core content of the Advanced Clinical Practice concentration prepares students for advanced practice nursing roles in diverse settings and with diverse populations. Content is organized based on the 缅北强奸 Model of Nursing and focuses on such areas as family intervention, collaborative practice, and working with family strengths and resources. Through clinical courses, students engage in advanced clinical assessments and interventions and develop greater capacities to reflect purposefully and in-depth on their nursing practice. Students also develop knowledge of quantitative and qualitative research methods, engage in a systematic study of a clinically based nursing problem, and disseminate knowledge relevant to clinical practice.
Required Courses (43 credits)
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NUR2 515 Applied Statistics for Nursing (3 credits)
Overview
Nursing : Principles of data analysis and statistical inference with an emphasis on the utilization and interpretation of analysis of variance and regression procedures in nursing research. An additional emphasis will be on critiquing data analysis in current nursing research articles.
Terms: Fall 2016
Instructors: G茅linas, C茅line (Fall)
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 204 or Undergraduate Introductory-Level Statistics Course
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NUR2 608 Seminar in Nursing 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Nursing : Students gain advanced knowledge of the processes, mechanisms, and principles that promote health and support healing during normative change, illness, and other unexpected events or crises. Through the study of theory, examination of empirical evidence, and discussion of clinical experiences, students develop a philosophical orientation and a value driven approach to nursing to guide their nursing practice with individuals and families. The orientation to practice is Strengths-Based Nursing.
Terms: Fall 2016
Instructors: Hart, Heather Dawn; Bitzas, Vasiliki; Drouin, Susan E (Fall)
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken NUR2 611D1/D2.
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NUR2 611 Seminar in Nursing 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Nursing : Students continue to gain advanced knowledge of the processes, mechanisms, and principles that promote health and support healing during normative change, illness, and other unexpected events or crises. Through the study of theory, examination of empirical evidence, and discussion of clinical experiences, students develop a philosophical orientation and a value driven approach to nursing to guide their nursing practice with individuals and families.
Terms: Winter 2017
Instructors: Hart, Heather Dawn; Bitzas, Vasiliki; Drouin, Susan E (Winter)
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken NUR2 611D1/D2
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NUR2 612 Research Methods in Nursing 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Nursing : Basic knowledge and skills needed to conduct research. The philosophy and principles of scientific inquiry, research design, sampling, techniques of data collection, ethics, and incorporating research into practice are discussed with emphasis for nursing.
Terms: Fall 2016
Instructors: Merry, Lisa Alison (Fall)
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NUR2 617 Clinical in Family Systems Nursing 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Nursing : This course develops the knowledge and skills required to enhance the health of families. Family health has to do with ways of learning, developing, relating,behaving, and thinking which promote physical and psychological well-being. It involves coping with adversity by developing or drawing on family and individual strengths, as well as external resources. From the foundational perspective of Strengths-Based Nursing, students will learn approaches to family engagement and assessment using theoretically and empirically grounded strategies for working with families.
Terms: Fall 2016
Instructors: Hart, Heather Dawn (Fall)
Corequisite(s): NUR2 608
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken NUR2 614D1/D2.
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NUR2 618 Clinical in Family Systems Nursing 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Nursing : Splitting the course will ensure that students are evaluated at the end of each term and promotion, or not, to the Winter term can be justified accordingly. Also, students who need to go on a leave at the end of the Fall term are at a disadvantage because at present they need to repeat the whole year, whereas splitting the course will ensure that they only need to repeat the term they have missed.
Terms: Winter 2017
Instructors: Hart, Heather Dawn (Winter)
Corequisite(s): NUR2 611
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken NUR2 614D1/D2.
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NUR2 624 Clinical Laboratory in Nursing 2 (4 credits)
Overview
Nursing : Field experience in nursing, incorporating extensive assessment, experimentation and evaluation of differing nursing approaches.
Terms: Winter 2017
Instructors: Drouin, Susan E (Winter)
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NUR2 626 Professional Issues in Nursing (3 credits)
Overview
Nursing : An examination of theories of learning and organizational behaviour as related to the preparation of nurses for the delivery of health care services. Implications of these theories for the assessment, development, and evaluation of nursing programs will be investigated.
Terms: Winter 2017
Instructors: Drouin, Susan E (Winter)
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NUR2 630 Clinical Project 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Nursing : Identification of a clinical problem and development of a project to test or implement best-practice approaches.
Terms: Winter 2017
Instructors: Purden, Margaret A; Merry, Lisa Alison; Pelaez, Sandra; Semenic, Sonia Elizabeth (Winter)
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NUR2 631 Clinical Project 2 (6 credits)
Overview
Nursing : Implementation of a project plan related to best practice approaches in health care delivery.
Terms: Fall 2016
Instructors: Merry, Lisa Alison; Purden, Margaret A; Lang, Ariella (Fall)
Prerequisite: NUR2 630.
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NUR2 632 Clinical Project 3 (3 credits)
Overview
Nursing : Writing study findings from course NUR2 631 in the form of a paper for publication that should include: abstract, literature review, study purpose, methods, results and discussion. Oral presentation of the study findings to the 缅北强奸 nursing community would take place at the School toward the end of the course.
Terms: Winter 2017
Instructors: Merry, Lisa Alison; Purden, Margaret A; Lang, Ariella (Winter)
Prerequisite: NUR2 631
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NUR2 640 Clinical Reasoning (3 credits)
Overview
Nursing : Advanced pathophysiology of diseases across the lifespan, decision-making, and interventions for advanced practice related to illness management in a multiple-problem context, including independent clinical reasoning in the management of health and illness concerns.
Terms: Fall 2016
Instructors: Chevrier, Annie; Tuck, Jodi Louise (Fall)
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NUR2 642 Ethics in Advanced Practice (3 credits)
Overview
Nursing : Analysis of common as well as complex ethical issues in advanced nursing practice. General ethical standards for professional practice are reviewed as well as selected controversies.
Terms: Winter 2017
Instructors: Carnevale, Franco; Sofronas, Marianna (Winter)
Complementary Courses (6 credits)
Any 500-level course or higher in consultation with the Adviser for this concentration.
Ingram School of Nursing—2016-2017 (last updated Aug. 26, 2016) (disclaimer)