Explores relationships between practice, theory and research. Past and present contributions to nursing knowledge are discussed. An examination of health promotion from the perspective of societal responsibility for health, integrating people's experience with health and with healing in the context of community. Explores national and international issues related to the role of nursing in health promotion. The focus of this clinical experience is on health promotion with an emphasis on community and multidisciplinary team work.
Participants identify and act on a community health concern using a health promotion framework.
Helping Relationships Through the integration of self-knowledge and interpersonal relationships, participants focus on nurses' experience with self and others in the context of their work relationship. Teaching and Learning Participants examine assumptions underlying a variety of teaching methodologies and through reflection, explore personal beliefs and values in relation to these assumptions. The emphasis is to enhance nurses' ability to work as scholars. Participants experience ways to transform personal inquisitiveness into a process of posing, exploring and answering researchable nursing questions. Through praxis, participants experience ways to critically examine a range of research techniques and methods.