Description:

In this course, you will examine the role of the nurse when caring for persons requiring support with complex and co-morbid clinical conditions. In the lab setting, you will develop competence with various nursing interventions related to, but not limited to, caring for persons with complex surgical interventions, COPD, heart failure, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, pneumonia, diabetes, mental health disorders, and palliation. You will learn to collaborate with clients to support them with treatment plans. You will cultivate your ability to develop therapeutic nurse-client relationships framed within the College of Nurses of Ontario's (CNO's) values of client well-being, client choice, privacy and confidentiality, respect for life, maintaining commitments, truthfulness, and fairness.