Nursing Practice: Professional Transition

Overview

Course Description

In this final nursing practice course students integrate learning from prior semesters and advance their professional nursing practice. The focus of this course is the transition to professional nursing practice within the context of caring for clients with complex health challenges. Students develop their professional practice and nursing knowledge within a specific area, for example, a particular practice setting and/or with a specific client population.

Course Content

In this course,successful transition to nursing practice is emphasized. Building on previous learning, nursing practice experiences reflect the concepts and essential content from all courses in the previous semesters, and reflect the core curriculum concepts. This course occurs in a variety of nursing practice settings and with a variety of client populations. It focuses on knowledge development, integration, and consolidation of professional nursing practice.

Nursing Process

Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation

Professional Standards

Responsibiilty and accountability
Knowledge-based practice
Client-focused provision of service
Ethical practice

Role of the Nurse

Evidence-informed practice
Holistic health assessment
Collaboration with clients
Interprofessional collaboration
Nursing practice decision-making
Care planning
Ensuring client safety
Reflective practice
Scope of practice
Practice standards

Learning Activities

In this course, faculty members facilitate student learning, and promote critical inquiry, reflection and analytical reasoning through students’ experiential nursing practice. Increasing independence and autonomy as an active practitioner is expected as the student works collaboratively with experienced practitioners. In addition to course goals, students propose learning goals that are appropriate to the practice setting in which they are placed and their individual needs. These learning goals guide the student, faculty member and preceptors as the nursing practice experience progresses.

Techniques, such as journal writing, storytelling, client and situation based study, individual and group discussion, critical questioning and ongoing interaction with practice experts (preceptors) and the faculty member, further guide the learning experience to ensure achievement of the course learning goals. Faculty members function as educational consultants to students and preceptors within the practice setting, helping them in the development and integration of nursing knowledge and professional nursing practice.

Means of Assessment

The course evaluation is consistent with the Douglas College Evaluation Policy. A course evaluation schedule and other course evaluation information are provided on the Instructor’s Course Outline which is available to students at the beginning of each semester. A nursing practice assessment form is used to guide nursing practice course evaluation. This form includes indicators of successful nursing practice at the end of the semester. Nursing practice congruent with these indicators is an essential component of successful completion of this course. This is a mastery course.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, successful students will be able to:

Provide safe, competent, compassionate and evidence-informed nursing care that is grounded in professional integrity and pride and that honors the perspective of self and others as unique beings, who affect and are affected by their context/environment.
Formulate nursing practice decisions that promote health through critical inquiry, reflection, and analytical reasoning processes that are informed by multiple sources of knowledge.
Using a relational perspective and an ethic of caring, engage with individuals, families, groups, and communities in a variety of settings to promote health and well-being.
Demonstrate leadership qualities that promote and support an inter-professional collaborative model of client-centered care which will influence the future of nursing practice at a political, social, and professional level to attain quality care for clients and quality work environments for nurses.
Meet the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM) requirements for professional practice as identified in the BCCNM Professional and Practice Standards, the Scope of Practice for Registered Nurses, the Canadian Nurses Association Code of Ethics of Registered Nurses, and the Entry-level Competencies for Registered Nurses in B.C.

Textbook Materials

Textbooks and Materials to be Purchased by Students:

A list of recommended textbooks and materials is provided on the Instructor’s Course Outline which is available to students at the beginning of each semester.

Requisites

Prerequisites

NURS 4511 AND NURS 4512 AND NURS 4513 AND NURS 4515

Students in the BSN program are required to maintain a passing grade of 65% (C+) in all courses in order to progress in the program.

Corequisites

NURS 4611

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.

May 2023 (Current)