This course provides students with the opportunity to bridge theoretical knowledge and clinical practice through experiential learning in a nursing environment at an RRCP-affiliated healthcare facility. Under the guidance of a practicing nurse, students will begin to apply foundational nursing concepts by observing and participating in patient care. Students will identify, examine, and apply core nursing competencies as outlined in the Entry-Level Competencies (ELCs) for Registered Nurses (RNs) in Manitoba within both the clinical setting and simulation-based learning experiences. The clinical setting and simulation activities will place particular emphasis on cultivating clinical judgement, interprofessional collaboration, and effective communication to support the delivery of evidence-informed, culturally competent, and client – centered care.
This course builds on the previous registered nurses' knowledge and experience about the essential elements of professional communication from a socio-cultural nursing perspective. Strategies and techniques, considering socio-cultural context and unique communication needs across the lifespan, are applied. The course also includes an overview of Canadian Indigenous people's history and culture and the residual effects of colonialism on Indigenous people. This history provides an understanding of building nurse/client communication, therapeutic relationships, and culturally sensitive care.
This course builds on the knowledge and experience of previously registered nurses about nursing in the Canadian context, including a review of Canada’s health care system, the role of policy and politics in health, foundational nursing practice, and informatics that are relevant to the practice of nursing in today’s health care. Also examined the nurse's role in meeting Indigenous Canadians' health and well-being needs. This course will also examine the differentiation regarding regulatory bodies' roles and responsibilities, professional nursing associations, and unions in Canada and the nursing practice’s legal and ethical concepts.
This course builds on previously registered nurses' knowledge and experience about mental health nursing fundamentals in Canada. Students will recognize the effects of mental health challenges and assess the bio-psychosocial, environmental, spiritual, cultural, and economic influences that affect those experiencing mental health issues. Utilizing the Nursing Process approach, students will apply these concepts and theories in the assessment, planning, and strategizing nursing interventions and treatments based on the individual and family's lived experience
This course builds on previously registered nurses' knowledge and experience about nursing care of adults experiencing acute health status changes. This course will review basic theory/concepts of medical/surgical nursing, diagnostic tests and common treatments. Client-centred care, differences across the lifespan, and the effects of sudden illness or injury on individuals and their significant others are examined. The role of the nurse is examined in assisting clients and families to engage in health promotion, prevention and management of acute health conditions. Using exemplars of common acute alterations in health status, students will apply the nursing process.
This course builds on previous registered nurses’ knowledge and experience in perinatal and pediatric nursing fundamentals in Canada. Students will focus on competency-based theory and processes inherent in perinatal and pediatric nursing to learn to provide nursing care to families from preconception though adolescence. Students will apply health promotion principles, prevention, holistic assessment, primary health care and the social determinants of health in their coursework.
This course builds on previously registered nurses' knowledge and experience about the nursing care of adults and older adults experiencing changes in health status due to chronic illness/conditions. This course will review basic theories/concepts of medical/surgical nursing, diagnostic tests, and common treatments in the management of chronic illness/condition. The effects of chronic illness on individuals and significant others are explored. Through the use of exemplars of common chronic illness conditions, the emphasis is placed on the use of holistic nursing, and the relational role of the nurse in assisting clients and families to promote health, manage chronic health conditions and prevent complications.
This course builds on the nurses' knowledge and experience about nursing skills and health assessment across the lifespan. Throughout this course, students will have an opportunity to engage in the application of theoretical background and evidenced based rationale for common nursing skills and health assessment. Students will apply various assessments and skills that can be utilized in different settings, practice professional communication, and apply principles of reporting and documentation.
This course builds on the knowledge and experience of previously registered nurses in relation to the application of critical thinking and clinical decision-making process in caring for patients across the lifespan. This course will emphasize the use of case-based simulated learning. Students will integrate and apply their knowledge of foundational nursing concepts and theories, legal and ethical principles, and evidence-based practice to enhance critical thinking, problem-solving, decision-making, and inter/intradisciplinary collaboration.