Registered Nurse - Prescribing (Online Part-time)   

In this course, you will explore the role of the prescribing Registered Nurse (RN) when assessing client health needs, communicating with the client, and prescribing. Through scenario-based activities, you will use critical thinking and clinical reasoning in clinical decision-making around health information, health history, diagnosis, and treatment. You will demonstrate accuracy and accountability in performing a health assessment on a client, gathering data on health and medication history, and documentation in the client record. You will also use therapeutic communication to obtain informed consent, communicate assessment findings and diagnoses, and establish a follow up plan. 

Co-Requisite(s): Advanced Pharmacology [NURS1018] Textbook Required. 

In this course, you will integrate previous and new healthcare knowledge and skills into clinical practice settings across the health-illness continuum. When planning, implementing, evaluating, and documenting client care, you will use evidence-informed and strengths-based approaches to apply increasingly complex therapeutic nursing intervention as a RN with the capacity to prescribe medications. You will develop therapeutic relationships with clients and their families to provide care that is client-centered, safe, ethical, and compassionate. You will have opportunities to integrate your nursing knowledge and further develop your clinical skill performance, time management, and leadership abilities. You will incorporate the principles and processes of critical inquiry, relational practice, risk management, priority setting, and quality improvement in the clinical practice setting as a RN prescriber who is a member of an interprofessional health care team. 

Pre-requisite(s): Advanced Health Assessment [NURS1017] and Advance Pharmacology [NURS1018]