Learning Process

Reflection

"Nursing is one of the medical professions that has an important role in the health of the community. To perform their professional role as good as possible, nursing students should complete their trainings courses usefully and effectively therefore they could respond to the community’s health needs in the future. So, if a good learning process occurs, the expected result, which is professional nurses, would happen and it could be hoped that public health would be achieved" (Salehi, Naji, & Afghari, 2016).

Salehi, Sh., Naji, S. A., & Afghari, P. (2016). Nursing students' experiences of the process of learning during clinical courses in Iran. International Journal of Medical Research and Health Sciences, 5(5),180-188

Undergrad Education: About

First Year Clinical Placement - LTC

The long term care (LTC) setting for a first-year nursing student provides an environment of diverse experiences where learned materials can be applied and insights into professional development made. Initially anxious and unsure of my abilities to provide competent care, this placement has provided me with the foundational skills (ex. lifts/transfers), communication, and sense of professionalism upon which later learning/practice can develop.

Undergrad Education: Projects

Learning Outcomes

Established therapeutic nurse-resident relationships in residential care settings.
Developed knowledge about the experience of residents living in residential care
settings.
Developed and applied therapeutic communication strategies and interpersonal skills
to appropriately establish, maintain, and terminate the nurse-client relationship.
Demonstrated safe, ethical and culturally safe care.
Participated in professional development based on reflective practice and critical
inquiry.
Examined personal attitudes regarding the elderly and other residents of residential
care homes.
Developed and demonstrated skills in basic biopsychosocial and spiritual assessment relevant to the older adult.
Applied assessment data to formulate a nursing care plan based on the needs of the resident.
Demonstrated knowledge in providing resident-centered support for activities of daily living.

Third Year Clinical Placement - Acute

Group practice in medical and or surgical inpatient settings focused on the adult with acute illness(es). Supported by Learning Centre activities relevant to acute care practice, including medication administration, sterile procedures, IV starts, IV pumps, mock codes, and assessment (abdominal, glycemic status, neurological, pre-operative, post-operative, respiratory).

Undergrad Education: Projects

Learning Outcomes

Provide nursing care that includes comprehensive, collaborative assessment, analysis, planning, evidence-informed interventions and outcome measures.
1. Interpret critical aspects of the person’s experience of acute illness in relation to common signs and symptoms, responses to treatment, patterns of coping, and impacts on individual and family relationships
2. Demonstrate selected nursing and collaborative interventions related to caring for adult patients with acute illness, preoperative and postoperative care, IV medication administration, cardiac assessment and rhythm strips, neurological assessment, wound care, blood component therapy, TPN, central venous devices, pulmonary care including chest tubes, rapidly changing conditions, and resuscitation.
3. Identify common medical treatments and potential consequences/complications of selected acute illnesses
4. Demonstrate health promotion and illness prevention practices.
5. Engage with patients and families to identify health-related situational challenges
6. Work with patients and families to create reasonable and effective solutions.
Establish and maintains therapeutic, caring and culturally safe relationships through effective communication.
1. Explain the experience of acute illness in individuals receiving care in acute setting
2. Demonstrate therapeutic use of self
3. Understand and anticipate emerging bio-psycho-social needs of persons with acute illness and apply this knowledge to care:
4. Plan appropriate nursing care
5. Predict outcomes of nursing care
6. Evaluate client response to nursing care
7. Demonstrate patient advocacy
Apply the ways of knowing and informational technologies to effectively care for diverse, acutely ill patients.
1. Apply relevant nursing models, philosophical frameworks, theories and evidence
2. Adhere to policies and practice of the institution.
3. Use knowledge gained in theory and labs to support patient care decisions
4. Uses best practice guidelines
Adhere to professional practice standards and organizational polices to contribute to a culture of safety.
1. Critically appraise own practice in relation to nurse-client/family interactions and as a member of the health care team
2. Engage with patients in an ethical and culturally safe manner
3. Demonstrates accountability
4. Demonstrates reliability
Exercise leadership to enhance patient care, and support professionalism in practice.
1. Participate in professional development based on reflective practice and critical inquiry
2. Support peers

Third Year Clinical Placement - Chronic

Group practice in a hospital setting focused on chronic disease or palliative
treatment. Practice settings: complex continuing care medicine, mental
health, rehabilitation, palliative care, high acuity long term care. Learning Centre activities include medication administration, VAC treatments, feeding pumps, patient-controlled pumps, and assessment of consciousness, orientation, and pain

Undergrad Education: Projects

Learning Outcomes

By participating in the required period of supervised laboratory practice, clinical practice, simulation and seminars, and completing a learning plan, reflective journals, portfolio entries and clinical evaluations, the learner will be able to:
1.Demonstrate accountability and responsibility in the teaching-learning relationship
2.Explain the experience of chronic illness in individuals receiving care in chronic care settings
3.Interpret critical aspects of the person’s experience of chronic illness in relation to the nursing process such as common signs and symptoms, responses to treatment, patterns of coping, and impact on individual and family relationships.
4.Identify symptoms and common medical treatments of select chronic illnesses.
5.Demonstrate select nursing and collaborative interventions related to caring for the person with chronic illness such as specific assessments, medication
administration, physical and chemical restraints, enteral feeding & residual volumes, NG tube insertions, wound care, patient controlled medication administration pumps.
6.Identify potential consequences/complications of select chronic illnesses and related interventions.
7.Under the supervision of a Registered Nurse, demonstrate safe, competent, evidence- informed, holistic nursing practice with clients with chronic illness
a.Use a wide range of effective communication strategies and interpersonal skills to appropriately establish, maintain, re-establish and terminate the nurse-client relationship
b.Demonstrate accountable, responsible and ethical practice
c.Engage in respectful, collaborative, therapeutic and professional relationships
i.Demonstrate therapeutic use of self
ii.Create a culturally safe environment
d.Apply nursing models and theories
e.Demonstrate health promotion and illness prevention practices
f.Demonstrate patient advocacy
g.Predict outcomes of nursing care
h.Evaluate client response to nursing care
i.Critically appraise own practice in relation to nurse-client/family interactions and as a member of the health care team
j.Participate in professional development based on reflective practice and critical inquiry
1. Successful completion of all NURS 3021H Clinical Learning Centre Lab activities and clinical replacement simulations.