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Integrated Clinical Practice 2

Your experiential learning will provide you with an opportunity to plan safe and competent patient care while working in partnership with a Licensed Practical Nurse. You will manage patient care with increased interdependence and confidence, demonstrating enhanced organization, decision making, and critical thinking. You will demonstrate reflective practice in relation to lifelong learning. You will establish collaborative relationships, using professional communication, and demonstrate respect for diversity and ethical practice. 

Variations in Health 2

You will examine variations in health and common chronic conditions diagnosed in the adult population. You will apply knowledge of anatomy and pathophysiology to explore health challenges affecting body systems. You will examine the diagnostic findings, nursing interventions and treatments associated with specific health challenges. With guidance, you will apply the nursing process, promote safety, aooly critical thinking, and use evidence informed practice to deliver holistic nursing care.

Personal Care 2

Building on the skills you learned in Personal Care 1, you will become skilled at assisting clients in meeting personal care needs. You will study grooming and dressing, foot and nail care, and elimination care.

You will study grooming and dressing, foot and nail care, and elimination care.

Personal Care 1

You will have the opportunity to become skilled at assisting clients in meeting personal care needs. You will study infection control, body mechanics, bed making, positioning clients, range of motion, oral care, and assisting to feed clients.

Transferring Lifting Repositioning (TLR®) ©

You will participate in activities to move and position clients/objects in health care settings using minimal physical effort and maximizing the use of mechanical aids and equipment. The course focuses on client/caregiver safety. You will receive a Transferring Lifting Repositioning (TLR®) © certificate from Saskatchewan Association for Safe Workplaces in Health (SASWH) upon successfully completing the course.

Variations in Health 4

You will examine the complex nursing care of patients with multi-system challenges and medical emergencies. You will plan ethical and competent holistic nursing care related to acute variations in health. You will apply concepts of safety critical thinking, and evidence informed practice in the delivery of patient care.

Foundations 4 - Community Health

You will examine the role of the practical nurse in the context of patient care in the community with a focus on vulnerable populations. You will examine the Health Promotion Model and apply the determinants of health. You will examine the role of the Community Health Nurse in communicable disease prevention and disaster preparedness. You will apply critical thinking and inquiry in the context of community health nursing. 

Health Assessment and Praxis 4

You will perform assessment and skills with increasing proficiency for adult patients requiring curative and restorative medical and surgical care. You will examine medical emergencies and plan care with increased interdependence in collaboration with the health care team. You will perform intravenous insertion and the administration of intravenous medications. Your experiential learning will provide you with the opportunity to apply your nursing knowledge and skills to caring for adult patients with acute health challenges in the medical and surgical environments.

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