NURS 2109: Healing I: Adult Health and Healing

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Course Format Lecture 4.0 h + Seminar 0.0 h + Lab. 0.0 h
Credits 3.0

Course Description

This course provides a continued exploration of concepts of health, family, and community within the context of wellness. Students also examine significant theoretical and conceptual frameworks of health, including the determinants of health, Aboriginal health, population health, and primary health care, in relation to lived experience of health and healing. By reflecting on the definitions of health and healing, students will begin to appreciate the experience of life with an episodic health challenge and its impact on health, family, and community within the context of wellness. Community resources will also be explored. A feature of this course is to participate in a community health promoting activity. Delivered in a mixed-mode format.

Prerequisite(s): A minimum "C+" grade in all of the following: BIOL 2192, NURS 1209, 1260, 1261; and an "S" grade in NURS 1263.

Corequisite(s): NURS 2160, 2161, and 2163.

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