NURS 3641 - Principles and Skillfulness: Theory

Course Description

This course is designed to build on the learner’s existing nursing knowledge and clinical competency. The focus is on understanding and applying principles of safety that underpin technical skills and on ensuring the learner’s knowledge reflects contemporary nursing practice in diverse practice settings.

Learning outcomes

• Advance your knowledge, confidence and safe performance of psychomotor skills common to nursing practice
• Extend your ability to promote safe nursing practice, for yourself and others
• Enhance your ability to teach skills to others based on the principles of assigning delegating nursing tasks, evidence-informed decisions and best practice guidelines
• Promote your inquiry skills and resourcefulness
• Refresh your critical thinking in relation to math for medications
• Augment your communication skills

Course topics

• Module 1: Safety
• Module 2: Assessment & Prioritization
• Module 3: Cardiopulmonary Nursing Considerations
• Module 4: Infection Prevention and Control
• Module 5: Wound Care / Wound Healing
• Module 6: Gastro Intestinal / Genitourinary (GI/GU) Nursing Considerations
• Module 7: Pain & Comfort
• Module 8: Medication Administration
• Module 9: IV Therapy
• Module 10: Blood and Blood Products

Required text and materials

Students are responsible for purchasing the required materials on their own:

• Potter, P. A., Perry, A. G., Stockert, P.A., & Hall, A.M. (2019). In B.J. Astle, & W. Duggleby (Canadian Eds.), Canadian fundamentals of nursing (6^th ed.). Toronto, ON: Elsevier Canada.
  Type: Textbook. ISBN: 9781771721158

The following Open Education Resources (OER) textbook, free of charge, is required for this course:

• • Anderson, R., Doyle, G. R., & McCutcheon, J. A. (2018). Clinical procedures for safer patient care (Thompson Rivers University ed.). (CC BY 4.0)

Assessments

To successfully complete this course, students must achieve a passing grade of 60% or higher on the overall course, 90% or higher on the mandatory Math for Medications Quiz, and 60% or higher on the mandatory Final Exam.

Prerequisites

• Admission to the Return to Registered Nurse Practice Certificate program
  Or
• Current Registration in the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM)
  Or
• Permission of School of Nursing Associate Dean or appropriate designate.

Recommended requisite(s)

• Participants in the Return to Registered Nurse Practice Certificate program are strongly advised to complete this course just prior to registering for NURS 3651 and after completing HLTH 3611, HLTH 3621, and HLTH 3631.