Calendar 2012-2013 - Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing

NUR470Y1INTEGRATIVE NURSING PRACTICUMThis 10 week clinical course is intended to provide students with an opportunity to consolidatetheir nursing knowledge and competencies. The focus of practice will be on integratingtheoretical and substantive knowledge and consolidating competence and confidence in clinicalskills, including those related to workload management and priority setting. The course will alsoassist students in preparing for registration exams. All previous program requirements must besuccessfully completed prior to beginning this final course. The course will run from mid-April tothe end of June.Graduate CoursesNUR1012HCULTURE AND RELATIONSExplore methods for critiquing relations in hierarchies, and examine theory/practice through groupexercises and assignments on self-reflection, consensus building and integrative anti-racism innursing. Transformative Principles of Racial Justice are explored as a particular method forimproving employer/employee relations.(3 hours/week)NUR1014HTHE POLITICS OF ABORIGINAL HEALTHExamine the impact of policies and practices on the health of Aboriginal People in Canada. Film,videos and guests from the Faculty of Medicine Visiting Lectureship on aboriginal healthperspectives encourage sharing experience and critical analysis. Readings and seminarscontribute to a research and culture based approach. A social determinants approach avoidsblaming victims or reducing problems to psychological or behavioural causes, and instead looksat policies and social practices as resourceful and determinative. Reflect on how realities mightbe reconstructed, beginning with our own perceptions and strategies. The group assignment willbegin to socialize students into collectivist ways of relating and organizing, valued in Aboriginalcultures.(3 hours/week)NUR1016HHEALTH SYSTEMS, POLICY AND THE PROFESSIONIdentify and critically examine health policy in Canada with specific attention to Ontario. Thestructure of the Canadian health care system, policy initiatives and relevant legislation areexamined along with the role of the nurse, the nursing profession and other stakeholders ininfluencing the system.(3 hours/week)NUR1017HHISTORY OF IDEAS IN NURSING PRACTICECritically explore the discourse of nursing through the examination and interpretation of bothhistorical and contemporary portrayals of nursing practice in light of shifting and prevailingintellectual ideas, socio-cultural and/or historical circumstances. An emphasis will be placed onboth the continuities and changes in nursing practice and thinking through time. The course willUniversity of Toronto Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing Calendar 2012-2013 36