Nursing (NURS) - Generativity and Life Inquiry

NURS 1176  Generativity and Life Inquiry

Corequisites:

NURS 1195 and NURS 1187

Restrictions:

This course is restricted to students enrolled in the BScN-SPP program.

Hours:

Twelve hours of instruction a week for three weeks; integrated with NURS 1195 and NURS 1187.

Credits:

3

Description:

This course is a general orientation to the program and to the Academic Health Center's organizational vision, mission and values. Students are introduced to select clinical areas and patient populations served by the practice environment, and begin to explore and question the practice challenges faced by the future nurse as beginning scholar-practitioners from the perspective of Generativity and Life and related concepts, as follows: Learning involves the discovery of one's own narrative and those of others through inquiry. Through concepts of narrative inquiry, scholarship and nursing, learners find meaning in embodied experiences; who they are and how they reciprocally influence the world.