Course code
PNUR 1144
Credits
3.50
Semester length
15
Max class size
8
Course
Practice: Health and Professional Practice
Important Notice
This course is not active. Please contact Department Chair for more information.
Typically offered
To be determined
Overview
Course description
Students will have opportunities to apply specialized knowledge and skills in caring for persons experiencing ongoing health challenges in intermediate and mental health settings. This course introduces the student to the psychiatric nursing role. Students will focus on developing self-awareness. Students will begin to assess & set priorities to organize care. Seminars will assist with the integration of concepts and issues related to the clinical practice setting.
Course content
In this course, within the context of the Douglas College Psychiatric Nursing Department’s caring philosophy and conceptual framework, students will focus on developing the psychiatric nursing role and promoting health in clients with ongoing health challenges in a variety of medical and mental health care settings. Students will have opportunities to apply knowledge of psychiatric nursing concepts and skills and to establish nurse-client relationships within caring environments. Evidence based practice is integrated throughout five domains of practice. Specific domains of practice that will be addressed are:
1. Professional Domain
2. Health Domain
3. Therapeutic Relationships Domain
4. Clinical Judgment Domain
5. Collaborative Leadership
Learning activities
In this course, students engage in a variety of learning activities. Learning activities occur in nursing practice settings, seminar, and self-study. Nursing practice experience provides students with opportunities to apply knowledge and use skills related to psychiatric nursing within a holistic context. Critical reflection through journal writing, practice appraisal and participation in seminars will allow exploration and integration of nursing theory promoting self-directed learning.
Means of assessment
Course evaluation is consistent with Douglas College and the Department of Psychiatric Nursing evaluation policies. An evaluation schedule is presented at the beginning of the course.
A clinical appraisal form is used that encompasses the five domains of nursing practice (health and healing, teaching/learning, clinical judgment, professional responsibility, collaborative leadership), competencies, and quality indicators. Quality indicators incorporate the minimal semester requirements and address what a student is expected to demonstrate by the end of each clinical experience. Nursing practice congruent with the quality indicators is an essential component of successful completion of this course.
This is a mastery course.
Learning outcomes
In this course the student will use the Psychiatric Nursing Curricular Threads (professionalism, health promotion, and caring), Concepts (crisis, comfort, hope, loss, power, resiliency, integrity) and Variables (psychosocial, physiological, cultural, spiritual, developmental) to integrate knowledge, skills and attitudes related to nursing theory, therapeutic relationships, and caring practice and pharmacological interventions when caring for the person experiencing ongoing health challenges. It is the intent of this course to integrate knowledge and skills and nursing theory from the current semester.
Textbook materials
Textbooks and Materials to be Purchased by Students
A list of required and optional textbooks and materials is provided for students at the beginning of each semester.
Requisites
Course Guidelines
Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.
Course Transfers to Other Institutions
Below are current transfer agreements from Douglas College to other institutions for the current course guidelines only. For a full list of transfer details and archived courses, please see the BC Transfer Guide.
| Institution | Transfer details for PNUR 1144 | |
|---|---|---|
| There are no applicable transfer credits for this course. | ||
Course Offerings
There are no course offerings this semester.