Honours Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BScN) Courses

The course examines through a culturally safe, anti-racist, and anti-discriminatory lens concepts and theories required of the Registered Nurse to provide culturally appropriate care to Indigenous people. Through self-reflection on the positionality of the Registered Nurse in the Code of Ethics and professional responsibilities to respond to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's Calls to Action, the learner will foster an understanding of colonization and cultural genocide and its impact on Indigenous people in Canada. The learner will obtain and apply knowledge of core concepts in Indigenous culture, worldviews, and ways of knowing in meeting the wholistic needs of Indigenous people. Through analyzing historical and contemporary issues impacting Indigenous people, the learner will foster and devise leadership skills in advocating for Indigenous people in their future role as Registered Nurses.

This course introduces the student to fundamental theoretical concepts and practice skills that maintain and promote health and healing with a focus on the older adult population. Students will learn and safely demonstrate health promotion and maintenance skills in the lab and are required to apply their knowledge and skills in the clinical setting.

This course is an introduction to professional relationships in nursing with a focus on reflection through self-awareness, relational communication, and professional writing skills.

This course is an introduction to the foundations of nursing as a profession. It includes the history of nursing, nursing education, teaching and learning foundations and the Canadian health care system. The regulation of the nursing profession, the nursing process, and the role of nursing within the interprofessional team are discussed.

This clinical course will provide the student with opportunities to demonstrate basic nursing skills, with a focus on the older adult population. The student will assess, plan, implement, and evaluate nursing care for one adult client. The student will practice, and safely apply, newly acquired theoretical and practical nursing knowledge from other nursing courses (including BN 105 The Fundamentals of Nursing). By the end of this clinical experience, students are expected to assist one adult client with all activities of daily living (autonomously); begin to develop their critical thinking skills by contributing to self-reflection exercises; and effectively integrate new and prior learning.

This course describes human anatomy and physiology at the cellular, tissue, organ, and system levels of organization. Aspects of this course will concentrate on the clinical application of anatomy and physiology. The course is delivered each week as three (3) hours of lecture, three (3) hours of laboratory activity.

This course explores the systematic changes and continuities that occur in people from birth to death. The interrelationship of psychological, cognitive and psychosocial development will help inform understanding of the human experience. Nature-Nurture, one of the central issues in the study of development, will be highlighted throughout the course to understand the interaction between cultural, social and historical impacts and biological maturation. In addition, to studying human development in a systematic way, students will gain a personal understanding of their own lives in the context of lifespan development.

This course will provide students with the basic principles and components of a holistic nursing assessment, with focus on the well adult. Students will gain knowledge and skills in communication, interviewing and assessment of the physical and mental status of individuals. Students will learn normal and select abnormal assessment findings. Students will learn and safely demonstrate their skills in the labs setting and are required to integrate their knowledge and skills into their clinical practice. Learners are required to integrate new and prior learning.

The learner will explore and understand the foundational concepts of therapeutic nurse-client relationships to foster person-centered care. Through analyzing group processes and functions, the learner will explore communication strategies, reporting methods, role clarification, delegation, and interprofessional collaboration to aid in the development and sustainment of professional relationships required for nursing practice. Strategies to mitigate confrontation and conflict resolution are explored through a de-escalation approach. The learner will be able to understand alternative methods of communication, communication for palliative care, and technology support for communication.

This clinical course will provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate the basic principles and components of the nursing assessment, with a focus on the older adult population. Students will demonstrate knowledge and skills in communication, interviewing and assessment of the physical and mental status of individuals; normal and select abnormal assessment findings; and integrate their new and prior learning knowledge and skills into clinical practice.

This course continues the description of the anatomy and physiology of a healthy adult human body that was begun in SN100. The cellular, tissue and organ levels will be studied as they apply to the following organ systems: nervous, endocrine, cardiovascular, respiratory, lymphatic, immune, digestive, urinary and reproductive. In addition, an examination of fluid, acid/base and electrolyte balance will be undertaken. Aspects of clinical relevance will be included for several systems. The course includes, weekly, three hours of theory in lecture format and three hours of lab activity.

Biochemistry is the study of the chemical processes that drive biological systems. This course explores the basic principles of biochemistry and develops the student's appreciation and understanding of biological networks. Because the field of biochemistry is continually evolving and touches many areas of cell biology, this course also includes an elementary introduction to the study of molecular biology. Students will be introduced to general biochemical concepts that will provide a basis for understanding the biological and chemical principles underlying human physiology and disease.

This course focuses on applying integrated pharmacological knowledge and interventions within the nursing process. The learner will explore pharmacology's basic principles, concepts, and processes. The learner will apply the principles of pharmacology, professional practice standards, legislation, and patient education to the role of the registered nurse in safe medication administration practices. The learner will discuss anticipating, monitoring, and evaluating actual or potential health risks and possible associated outcomes related to medication administration. The learner will examine the action, therapeutic indications, and nursing responsibilities of medications related to analgesics, adrenal agents, allergic reactions, intravenous solutions, and medications used to treat cardiovascular, respiratory, endocrine, and hematological disorders.

This course addresses the integration of nursing practice with health information, knowledge, data management and communication technologies to promote best practice strategies for the quality health of individuals, families and other groups, and communities worldwide (Canadian Nursing Informatics Association [CNIA], 2017). Through this introductory course, students will learn about the influence of information technology on clinical practice and explore methods of incorporating informatics into practice.

This course will provide the learner with opportunities to examine and apply the role of the Registered Nurse in caring for patients with acute and chronic conditions in a medical-surgical environment. The learner will demonstrate providing safe, competent, compassionate, ethical, and evidence-informed care across the lifespan in response to client needs. The learner will demonstrate the application of nursing knowledge, ethics, critical thinking, self-reflection, and the integration of evidenced-informed practices into the nursing process to care for clients with acute and chronic conditions in the clinical setting. The learner will foster their development of critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and clinical judgment in the clinical setting. At the end of the clinical experience, the learner will demonstrate competency in the nursing skills of sterile and non-sterile dressing changes, spirometry, chest physio, deep-breathing, coughing, splinting, medication administration (oral, eye, nose, inhalation, topical, rectal, vaginal, and parental), intravenous therapy, administering oxygen devices, and initiating, monitoring, and discontinuing Foleys or intermittent catheters.

This course introduces the learner to the study of pathophysiology. The learner will recall knowledge from anatomy and physiology as foundational knowledge required for the study of pathophysiology. The learner will examine pathophysiological concepts of acute and secondary illnesses impacting patients across the lifespan through an integrated, system-based, and case-study approach. Medical terminology, diagnostic, and laboratory testing will be explored as they relate to select acute and acute illnesses. This course will support the knowledge, skills, clinical reasoning, and clinical judgment required for courses, clinical, laboratory, and simulation components of the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program.

The introduction to microbiology provides the learner with foundational knowledge that has applications in the health sciences including foundational nursing knowledge. The learner will explore theoretical and laboratory applications of course learning outcomes. The learner will explore the basics of microbial cell structure and function, antimicrobial therapy, drug resistance, antibodies, and laboratory/diagnostic microbiology. The learner will explore common infections and inflammatory responses in the immune system and lymphatic system, integumentary system, musculoskeletal system, and reproductive system. The learner will understand the involvement of microbes in emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, nosocomial infections, and sexually transmitted infections.

This theoretical, laboratory, and simulation course provides the learner with the knowledge and skills to provide holistic, evidence-based care to clients with acute and chronic conditions. The learner will recall knowledge and skills of fundamental nursing practice, health assessment, relational practice, professional practice, anatomy and physiology, and biochemistry. The learner will integrate knowledge from pathophysiology, microbiology, and pharmacology into the nursing process to develop a care plan to care for clients with urinary alterations, fluid and electrolyte imbalances, endocrine disorders, hematological and immunological disorders, respiratory and cardiac disorders, and clients who require nonpharmacological and pharmacological interventions.

This theoretical, laboratory, and simulation course provides the learner with the knowledge and skills to provide holistic, evidence-based care to clients with acute and chronic conditions. The learner will recall knowledge and skills of fundamental nursing practice, health assessment, relational practice, professional practice, anatomy and physiology, biochemistry, microbiology, pathophysiology I, pharmacology I, and medical-surgical I. The learner will integrate knowledge from pathophysiology II and pharmacology II into the nursing process to develop a care plan for medical-surgical clients with acute and chronic conditions impacting the musculoskeletal, integumentary, respiratory, cardiac, neurological, reproductive gastrointestinal, genitourinary, endocrine, ear, and eyes systems.

This course focuses on applying integrated pharmacological knowledge and interventions within the nursing process. The learner will recall the basic principles, concepts, processes of pharmacology, principles of pharmacology, professional practice standards, legislation, and patient education in the role of the registered nurse in safe medication administration practices. The learner will discuss anticipating, monitoring, and evaluating actual or potential health risks and possible associated outcomes related to medication administration. The learner will examine the action, therapeutic indications, and nursing responsibilities of medications related to cultural and sensitivity testing, serum drug monitoring, medication reversal agents, general and local anesthetics, antibacterial, antiviral, antiretroviral, antifungal, vaccines, and medications that are used to treat disorders of the cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, neurovascular, musculoskeletal, endocrine, reproductive, eye and ear disorders, and cancer.

This course focuses on multifaceted ethical issues inherent in the delivery of holistic nursing care of diverse needs of patients, families and communities, from a Canadian perspective. Learners will integrate personal and professional values and beliefs to examine moral, professional, ethical, and legal nursing knowledge in relation to current practice.

This course will provide the learner with opportunities to examine and apply the role of the Registered Nurse in caring for patients with acute and chronic conditions in a medical-surgical environment. The learner will demonstrate providing safe, competent, compassionate, ethical and evidence-informed care across the lifespan in response to client needs. The learner will demonstrate the application of nursing knowledge, ethics, critical thinking, self-reflection, and the integration of evidenced-informed practices into the nursing process to care for clients with acute and chronic conditions in the clinical setting. The learner will foster their development of critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and clinical judgment in the clinical setting by applying fundamental nursing knowledge and skills. At the end of the clinical experience, the learner will demonstrate competency in the nursing skills used in Clinical III: Medical Surgical I and new nursing skills of pre-, intra, and post-surgical care, monitoring epidural, patient controlled analgesics, and anaesthetics, fractures, sutures, staples, and drain care, chest tubes, nasogastric insertion, enteral feeding and medications, intravenous insertion, intravenous medications, tracheostomy care, and caring for patient with central venous access devices.

This course builds on the concepts and study of pathophysiology presented in SN 300 Pathophysiology I. The learner will explore additional pathophysiological concepts of acute and secondary illnesses impacting patients across the lifespan through an integrated, system-based, and case-study approach. Medical terminology, diagnostic, and laboratory testing will be explored as they relate to select acute and acute illnesses. This course will support the knowledge, skills, clinical reasoning, and clinical judgment required for courses, clinical, laboratory, and simulation components of the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program.

This course will explore the science and fundamentals of human nutrition and the roles that various nutrients play in both health and illness across the lifespan. Students will learn how nutrition influences an individual’s health. The course will also investigate metabolic processes, nutritional conditions, and nutrition related diseases which impact body functioning.

This course is designed to facilitate the development of knowledge related to the care of individuals, families, and groups experiencing acute and chronic alterations in mental health. Issues experienced from mental health and illness throughout the lifespan will be explored as well as mental status assessment, pharmacotherapeutics and the use of therapeutic communication skills as interventions.

This course focuses on the care of individuals and their support systems who receive an array of nursing services at a variety of levels through community agencies. Students are provided the opportunity to explore various nursing roles in the context of a defined community. Community health nursing concepts and skills for promoting individual system wellness are emphasized. Learners are required to integrate new and prior learning.

This course focuses on the nurse’s role in meeting the healthcare needs of childbearing families. Opportunities are provided to develop an understanding of reproductive health, obstetrical and neonatal nursing care. Learners are required to integrate new and prior learning.

This course will provide students with clinical experience related to the care of individuals, families, and groups experiencing acute and chronic alterations in mental health. Assessment and care for people with mental health and illness throughout the lifespan will be explored as well as mental status assessment, pharmacotherapeutics and the use of therapeutic communication skills as interventions. Learners are required to integrate prior knowledge and skills safely into their clinical practice.

This course focuses on the nurse's role in meeting the health care needs of children and families. Opportunities are provided to develop an understanding of growth and development, family assessment and pediatric nursing care including system dysfunctions. Learners are required to integrate their knowledge and skills safely into their clinical practice.

This course addresses population-centered health issues and risks. The student will learn about governmental structures for public health protection, principles that guide population health, and health policy development aimed to address recognized health disparities. Using epidemiology, students will gain a greater understanding about conditions that produce disease, disability, and death across Canada and around the world.

In this course, students learn the basics of nursing research and the value for selecting a quantitative methodological approach to investigate areas of nursing inquiry. The intent of the course is to aid students in becoming competent consumers of nursing research by understanding how quantitative research findings can be applied in their nursing practice.

This clinical course will provide students with experience related to the care of children and childbearing families. Opportunities are provided to apply knowledge in health assessment, nursing care, health promotion, and education of obstetrical and pediatric patients and their families. Learners are required to integrate prior knowledge and skills safely into their clinical practice.

This introductory course provides students with the basic concepts of data analysis and statistical computing. Technology and statistical literacy will be integrated to prepare them to address problems that involve collecting, measuring, analyzing, comparing and presenting data sets in a clear and meaningful way.

This course focuses on the advancement of nursing knowledge and skills, including emerging health care trends and associated nursing leadership responsibilities. Learners are required to integrate their knowledge and skills safely into their clinical practice.

This course explores the ways nurses can influence holistic change in clients, the nursing profession, the healthcare system and society. Emphasis is on strategies for enhancing nursing influence. Opportunities are provided for learners to explore ongoing and potential changes within the practice setting, current trends and complex nursing care issues. Learners are required to integrate new and prior learning.

In this course, students learn the basics of nursing research, and the value for selecting an emergent qualitative methodological approach to investigate areas of nursing inquiry. The intent of the course is to aid students in becoming competent consumers of nursing research by understanding how qualitative research findings can be applied in their nursing practice.

This course focuses on the transition of the learner into a new graduate nurse. Opportunities are provided to demonstrate competence with the College of Nurses Entry to Practice roles of a Registered Nurse including clinician, professional, communicator, collaborator, coordinator, leader, advocate, educator and scholar. Experiences in the consolidation setting will require the demonstration of student synthesis of both prior and new learning.

This course focuses on the theory and concepts of leadership and management in the professional nurse's role. The emphasis is on key skills required by highly effective nurse leaders/managers such as critical thinking, conflict management, delegating, building teams, stress management, and leading change. Learners are required to integrate new and prior learning.