Practice: Preceptorship

Overview

Course description

This practice course is a preceptorship experience with placement in a variety of mental health care settings. Students integrate specialized knowledge and skills while functioning as a team member. Students assume the workload and responsibilities of a psychiatric nurse at the entry to practice level under the one-to-one direction of a RPN/RN.

Course content

In this course, within the context of the Douglas College Psychiatric Nursing Department’s caring philosophy and conceptual framework, students will continue to focus on developing the psychiatric nursing role and promoting health in clients in a variety of mental health care settings with the expectation of assuming the professional psychiatric nursing role at the entry to practice level. 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 Judgement Domain

5. Collaborative Leadership Domain

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 the semester. 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, caring practices and pharmacological interventions when caring for the person and family experiencing episodic ongoing and complex health challenges in a clinical setting.

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

Prerequisites

PNUR 2540, PNUR 2541, PNUR 2544

Corequisites

PNUR 2640

Equivalencies

No equivalent courses.

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.

September 2004 (Current)

2003

1998

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 2644
There are no applicable transfer credits for this course.

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