2012-2013 AcAdemic cAlendAr

university level post-basic certificate/
diploma programs and/or approved
university-level nursing and/or nonnursing
courses. The University of
Victoria deems acceptability for
transfer credit.
261-161
Consolidated Practice
Experience I
(Spring Semester) (Formerly 360-
161) These materials represent a
component of a four-year integrated
BSN jointly held by the participating
institutions in the Collaboration for
Academic Education in Nursing.
The Consolidated Practice
Experience (CPE) is designed to
assist students to integrate the
health and wellness focus of year
one and prepare them for the health
challenges focus of year two. CPE
I is divided into two components.
First, students spend five days in the
Learning Resource Centre (LRC) to
practice skills that are foundational
to providing personal care. For the
remainder of the course, students
are in a practice setting where they
will have the opportunity to practice
personal care while continuing to
develop their assessment skills and
their understanding of health and
health promotion.
261-203
Health and Healing III: Health
Challenges/Healing Initiatives
(Semester Three) (Formerly 360-
203) These materials represent a
component of a four-year integrated
BSN jointly held by the participating
institutions in the Collaboration for
Academic Education in Nursing.
Building on the learners’
understanding of health, the
focus of this course is on people’s
experience with healing for both
chronic and episodic health
challenges. Participants integrate
theory and concepts of health
as they relate to healing. This
course is complementary to
Health Sciences III and provides
opportunities for learners to
integrate pathophysiology with their
understanding of health and healing
and the nursing approaches that
accompany this understanding.
261-222
Relational Practice II: Creating
Health-Promoting Relationships
(Semester Three) (Formerly 360-
222) These materials represent a
component of a four-year integrated
BSN jointly held by the participating
institutions in the Collaboration for
Academic Education in Nursing.
Building on Relational Practice I,
in this course participants move
beyond personal discovery to a
focus on relational caring. The
major emphasis of the course is
relational practice with individuals,
families, and groups from diverse
backgrounds of age, culture, and
experience. This is an experiential
course designed to deepen the
participants’ understanding of
caring and how the connection
between caring and relationship
provides the context for health
and healing. Participants explore
theories and processes of caring,
relational identity, development
of self as nurse, and relational
practice as enacted across a
range of settings and contexts.
261-233
Nursing Practice III:
Promoting Health and Healing
(Semester Three) (Formerly 360-
233) These materials represent a
component of a four-year integrated
BSN jointly held by the participating
institutions in the Collaboration for
Academic Education in Nursing.
This nursing practice experience
provides opportunities to develop
caring relationships with individuals
and families for the purpose of
health promotion while coming
to understand their unique health
and healing processes. Participants
will have opportunities to practice
nursing approaches that accompany
this understanding. Participants
work with families and individuals
experiencing common health
challenges (both episodic and
chronic), Learning Resource Centre
(LRC), in the home and community,
in agencies, and in care facilities
to incorporate concepts and
learning from all the courses in this
semester into their nursing practice.
The community and society are
considered as contextual influences
on the promotion of health and
healing for the individual and the
family.
360-243
Health Science III
(Semester Three)
The major emphasis of this
introductory course is to gain
a foundational knowledge of
concepts related to human
pathophysiology. This course will
examine the presentation and
pathogenesis of health challenges
across the life span including
pharmacology, microbiology,
diagnostics, epidemiology, genetics,
and nutrition. Topics will be closely
coordinated with practice, nursing
learning centre and the health
courses.
261-204
Health and Healing IV:
Health Challenges/Healing
Initiatives
(Semester Four) (Formerly 360-
204) These materials represent a
component of a four-year integrated
BSN jointly held by the participating
institutions in the Collaboration for
Academic Education in Nursing
Participants in this course continue
to develop an understanding
of people’s experience with
healing related to a variety of
increasingly complex chronic and
episodic health challenges within
a variety of practice contexts.
This course is complementary to
Health Sciences IV and provides
opportunities for learners to
integrate pathophysiology with
their understanding of health and
healing and the nursing approaches
that accompany this understanding.
261-213
Professional Practice III:
Nursing Ethics
(Semester Four) (Formerly 360-
213) These materials represent a
component of a four-year integrated
BSN jointly held by the participating
institutions in the Collaboration for
Academic Education in Nursing
Building on previous Relational
Practice and Professional Practice
courses, this course focuses on the
growing body of knowledge related
to nursing ethics. Beginning with
an understanding of bio-medical
ethics that have dominated nursing
ethics in the past and moving to
an understanding of developing
ethical theory related to nursing and
nursing issues, participants will have
opportunities to explore nursing
ethics in the context of their nursing
practice.
261-234
Nursing Practice IV:
Promoting Health and Healing
(Semester Four) (Formerly 360-
234) These materials represent a
component of a four-year integrated
BSN jointly held by the participating
institutions in the Collaboration for
Academic Education in Nursing.
This nursing practice experience
continues to provide opportunities
for learners to develop caring
relationships with individuals
and families for the purpose of
health promotion while coming to
understand their health and healing
processes when experiencing more
complex health challenges, both
episodic and chronic. Participants
will have opportunities to practice
nursing approaches that accompany
this understanding. Participants
work with families and individuals
in the home and community, in
agencies, and in care facilities
to incorporate concepts and
learning from all the courses in this
semester into their nursing practice.
The community and society are
considered as contextual influences
on the promotion of health for
the individual and the family.
360-244
Health Science IV
(Semester Four)
A continuation of applied Health
Science III, this course utilizes
foundational concepts to promote
an understanding of a range of
common disease processes and their
treatments. Particular emphasis
is placed on the pathophysiologic
process, microbiologic risks, and
pharmacological management of
these diseases.
193-435
Abnormal Psychology
(Semester Four) This course is the
sole property, and only delivered by
Athabasca University.
This course examines human
behaviours and mental phenomena
that diverge widely from the
normal. (Athabasca University,
Undergraduate Course)
or
360-152
Non-Nursing Elective
Students may transfer in previous
university level courses as transfer
credit to meet this program
requirement. Course work can
be completed at the college or
university level post-basic certificate/
diploma programs and/or approved
university-level nursing and/or nonnursing
courses. The University of
Victoria deems acceptability for
transfer credit.
261-262
Consolidated Practice
Experience II
(Spring Semester) (Formerly
360-These materials represent a
component of a four-year integrated
BSN jointly held by the participating
institutions in the Collaboration for
Academic Education in Nursing.
In this Consolidated Practice
Experience II, opportunities
are provided to develop caring
relationships for the purpose of
healing and health promotion with
individuals and families experiencing
increasingly complex chronic
and episodic health challenges.
The community and society are
considered as contextual influences
on the promotion of health for
the individual and the family.
Participants have opportunities to
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