This course focuses on promoting and maintaining health and providing support and assistance to individuals, families, and groups in the home and community. Students work in situations of increasing complexity, assessing health, providing and evaluating interventions, and building partnerships and supportive relationships. Students become more aware of community agencies and resources and begin to participate actively in the referral process. The course involves extensive travel throughout the province.
Week 2:
Flanders, S. A. (2018). Nurses as Educators. Effective Patient Education: Evidence and Common Sense. MEDSURG Nursing, 27(1), 55–58.
Week 3:
Miller, M.A., & Stoeckel, P.R. (2019). Theories and principles of learning. In Client Education: Theory and practice (3rd ed., pp. 55-72 . Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Anderson, I. (2016). Identifying different learning styles to enhance the learning experience. Nursing Standard, (7), 53-63.
Thompson, Deryn L. et al. 2021. “The Invisible Nature of Learning: Patient Education in Nursing.” Collegian 28(3): 341–45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colegn.2020.08.002.
Week 4:
Miller, M.A., & Stoeckel, P.R. (2019). Learner and setting assessment. In Client Education: Theory and Practice (3rd ed., pp. 79-107. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Rootman, I. & Gordon-El-Bihbety, D., (2008). Executive summary of a vision for a health literate Canada: Report of the expert panel on health literacy. Canadian Public Health Association. Retrieved from: https://www.cpha.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/resources/healthlit/execsum_e.pdf
Giovanelli, Alison, Elizabeth M. Ozer, and Ronald E. Dahl. 2020. “Leveraging Technology to Improve Health in Adolescence: A Developmental Science Perspective.” Journal of Adolescent Health 67(2): S7–13.
Week 9:
Fitzgerald, K., & Keyes, K. (2020). Teaching methods and settings. In S. Bastable (Ed.), Nurse as educator: Principles of teaching and learning for nursing practice (5th ed., pp. 460-499). Toronto, ON: Jones and Bartlett.
Hauer, J., & Quill, T. (2011). Educational needs assessment, development of learning objectives, and choosing a teaching approach. Journal of Palliative Medicine, 14(4), 503–508.
Week 10:
Freeman, S.; Heckmanm G; Naus, P.J.; Marston, H.R. (2013). Breaking down barriers: Hospice palliative care as a human right in Canada. Educational Gerontology, 39, 241-249.
Langille, J. (2013). Rights of passage: Integrating palliative care. Canadian Nurse, 109(9), 26-31.
Abbass-Dick, J., Brolly, M., Huizinga, J., Newport, A., Xie, F., George, S., & Sterken, E. (2018). Designing an eHealth Breastfeeding Resource With Indigenous Families Using a Participatory Design. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 29(5), 480–488.
Dol, J., Richardson, B., Boates, T., & Campbell-Yeo, M. (2019). Learning to parent from Google? Evaluation of available online health evidence for parents of preterm infants requiring neonatal intensive care. Health Informatics Journal, 25(4), 1265–1277.
Sitzman, K. & Watson, J. (2017). Expressing global intent to care: Free and massive open online courses (MOOCs) and trainings. In Watson’s Caring in the Digital World: A Guide for Caring When Interacting, Teaching and Learning in Cyberspace. New York, NY. Springer Publishing Company.
Week 11:
Canadian Public Health Association. (2019). Language matters: Using respectful language in relation to sexual health, substance use, STBBIs and intersecting sources of stigma. Retrieved from: https://www.cpha.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/resources/stbbi/language-tool-e.pdf
Latimer, M., Sylliboy, J. R., MacLeod, E., Rudderham, S., Francis, J., Hutt-MacLeod, D., Harman, K., & Finley, G. A. (2018). Creating a safe space for First Nations youth to share their pain. Pain reports, 3(Suppl 1), e682. https://doi.org/10.1097/PR9.0000000000000682
Abdillahi, I., & Shaw, A., (2020). Social determinants and inequities in health for Black Canadians: A snapshot. Public Health Agency of Canada. Retrieved from https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/phac-aspc/documents/services/health-promotion/population-health/what-determines-health/social-determinants-inequities-black-canadians-snapshot/health-inequities-black-canadians.pdf
Carrier, Leah, Jessy Dame, and Jennifer Lane. 2020. “Two-Spirit Identity and Indigenous Conceptualization of Gender and Sexuality: Implications for Nursing Practice.” Creative Nursing 26(2): 96–100.