NURS 3021H Clinical Practice Focused on Chronic Disease Management

Students graduating from this program will be: 3000 Level Outcomes On completion of 3000 level courses students will be able to: 1. Prepared as generalists entering a self-regulating profession in situations of health and illness. Fully understand how to practice in a self-regulating profession. Analyze clinical situations and reflect on individual roles of the nurse as it impacts upon patients and the nursing profession. Rationalize the link between health and illness. 2. Prepared to work with people of all ages and genders (individuals, families, groups, communities and populations) in a variety of settings. Understand the complexity adults, of all genders, to achieve optimal health. 3. Expected to have an enhanced knowledge of the program foci: indigenous, women's and environmental health and aging and rural populations. Use a critical perspective in applying the foci to nursing knowledge and practice. 4. Prepared to learn to continuously use critical and scientific inquiry and other ways of knowing to develop and apply nursing knowledge in their practice. Integrate critical reflective evidence-informed care using multiple ways of knowing. 5. Prepared to demonstrate leadership in professional nursing practice in diverse health care contexts. Develop and embody leadership at the point of care. Expand awareness of leadership in nursing. Identify strategies to develop leadership potential. 6. Prepared to contribute to a culture of safety by demonstrating safety in their own practice, and by identifying, and mitigating risk for patients and other health care providers Anticipate, identify and manage risk situations. Demonstrate awareness of resources related to risk management. 7. Able to establish and maintain therapeutic, caring and culturally safe relationships with clients and health care team members based upon relational boundaries and respect. Engages in deliberative personal centred relational practice to assist individuals, families and communities to achieve health. Acknowledge own potential to contribute to effective collaborative team function. 8. Able to enact advocacy in their work based on the philosophy of social justice. Advocate for individuals, families, and communities recognizing the influence of public policy on health. Recognize contextual influences on persons lived experiences within the health care system. 9. Able to effectively utilize communications and informational technologies to improve client outcomes. Integrates and applies critical thinking to the use of information technology and dissemination strategies as related to clinical outcomes. 10. Prepared to provide nursing care that includes comprehensive, collaborative assessment, evidence-informed interventions and outcome measures. Critically assess the individuals, family and community health status. Collaborate to identify priority health needs. Identify evidence informed interventions and health outcome evaluation in complex care situations. Before completing the evaluation form, students and preceptors should review the objectives and sub-objectives. While students and preceptors should comment on each of the seven course objectives, it is not necessary to write comments about each subobjective. It is better to provide specific and detailed comments about a few sub-objectives tha