This course is designed to enable students to develop a basic understanding of psychological and social implications in oncology and palliative care patients and their families throughout the trajectory of the illness experience. Topics to be explored include psychological distress, suffering, factors affecting coping and helping relationships, the grief journey, the role of culture, social changes during illness, end-of-life tasks, planning for death, burnout, and caring for caregivers.
Learn MoreStress can play a huge factor in people's professional lives. Learning how to deal with stress is vital to long-term health. While stress alone doesn’t cause disease, it triggers molecular changes throughout the body that make people more susceptible to many illnesses. In this course, students will gain an understanding of the importance of how to deal with both positive and negative stress in their lives. By using wellness perspectives, each student will gain more insight into how they can control both internal and external stressors.
Learn MoreThe student will become familiar with the scientific knowledge of the human body necessary to recognize, accept and use the important principles in all phases of study in the Health Sciences.
Learn MoreExplore the Relationship between the individual and the family and the meaning of family within a socially diverse context. Examine the dynamics, changes and challenges within families, and enhance self-awareness regarding personal experiences, beliefs and values.
Learn MoreThis course focuses on a multi-disciplinary examination of how mental health and addiction are viewed by society and how these perceptions influence society’s response to the practical and socio-political aspects of mental illness. Examine personal attitudes, societal myths, and stereotypes related to mental illness and addiction. Students will be challenged to critically reflect upon how their personal orientations and resulting behaviours about mental illness, addiction, and wellness impact their cultural, societal, and political beliefs. Critically examine mental illness and addiction as a social construct and contrast and compare assumptions of agency, normalcy, treatment, and recovery. Learn firsthand from those with mental illness, evaluate the effects of mental illness in special populations, including Indigenous people and the elderly, and apply their learning through health simulation activities.
Learn More"Behaviour and Mental Health Challenges" will focus on the role of the Educational Assistant in managing behaviour and supporting those with behaviour and mental health challenges. Through the identification and awareness of symptoms, strategies and interventions, students will become familiar with available resources and supports in both the school and community. The development of a continuum of strategies in response to escalating behaviours and evaluating implementation through concrete data collection will prepare students to effectively manage behaviour and support mental health challenges.
Learn MoreThis course introduces the student to the effects of prenatal alcohol exposure and the resulting disabilities known as Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). The unique complexity FASD presents to individuals, families, and communities is explored within the broader context of the impact of the disorder on social, educational, criminal, financial and health care systems.
Learn MoreThis course explores FASD from a cultural perspective, with a focus on Canadian Indigenous cultures. FASD is viewed as a disorder that, while it affects all cultures, provides an emergent opportunity for the Indigenous peoples of Canada to create a unique and effective response.
Learn MoreFor this capstone project, students will use skills and competencies obtained through their academic studies to translate addiction and mental health knowledge into practice. They will develop an addiction and mental health resource or practical tool based on a determined need that may be used for prevention or screening purposes, direct client education, clinic use, etc. Students will have the opportunity to determine their own special topic for this project; it will be based on need, current research and best practice. Students will work independently to complete this project, with support from the instructor. This capstone project will promote collaboration, community partnerships, prevention and health promotion in addiction and mental health.
Learn MoreThis course is only for Internationally Educated Nurses. In this course, you will learn about basic pharmacology and the standards of medication administration. Topics will include administration of medications; legislation pertaining to drug administration; quality improvement; risk management, drug calculations, classifications, uses, mechanism of actions, side-effects and adverse effects of drugs. An emphasis is placed on the study of drugs and their action in the human body related to the nursing practice with a focus on Registered Nurse (RN) roles/responsibilities for you to develop critical thinking and critical inquiry for safe administration of medication. The lens of professional accountability will be used as a foundation for you to apply concepts such as harmful incidences, and near misses potentially affecting client safety. Using client care scenarios, you will be guided to apply pharmacology knowledge in nursing practice decisions. https://www.confederationcollege.ca/program/ien-competency-upgrade-pathway
Learn MoreThis course is only for Internationally Educated Nurses. In this course, nursing students will be provided with opportunities to develop and demonstrate the College of Nurses of Ontario RN Entry-to Practice competencies as it relates to information communication technologies (ICTs). The students will be provided opportunities to explore the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary for information and health literacies to strengthen their competence in nursing informatics. Students examine applications of ICTs in professional nursing practice at points of care, nursing administration, nursing education, research and within an interdisciplinary setting. Students develop an understanding of the professional judgment and accountability required by nurses to maintain public trust when using social media and ICTs. Students analyze the implications of technology on the quality and safety of client care. Through active learning, students determine the appropriate knowledge sources for evidence-informed nursing practice and the establishment of professional boundaries. https://www.confederationcollege.ca/program/ien-competency-upgrade-pathway
Learn MoreThis course is only for Internationally Education Nurses. In this course, you will examine concepts related to evidence informed practice. You will explore scientific inquiry within nursing praxis, relevance and use of various research paradigms, and methodologies and ethics in practice and human research scenarios. You will engage in critical appraisal of research evidence and apply principles and concepts of knowledge translation and effective knowledge transfer at individual and systems levels. https://www.confederationcollege.ca/program/ien-competency-upgrade-pathway
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