Minimum Course Hours: 30

Course Description

Learners are introduced to the concepts of health promotion as well as the determinants of health and health inequities. Learners develop a beginning knowledge of typical growth and development. Topics include health continuums, health enhancement, health protection, disease prevention, and health restoration (recovery, care, and support). Learners explore advocacy and trauma-informed practice and develop an understanding of how cultural safety and anti-racism in health care impact health and wellness, with a focus on Indigenous-specific anti-racism.

Prerequisites: Admission to the Practical Nursing Program; completion of Human Anatomy and Physiology for Practical Nurses with a minimum grade of 65% or equivalent

Corequisites: Professional Communication 1; Integrated Nursing Practice 1; Professional Practice 1; Variations in Health 1; Pharmacology 1

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the learner will be able to:

1. Explain definitions and concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention in the context of both physical and mental health.
   • 1.1 Explain epidemiology related to health promotion.
   • 1.2 Describe the concept of health continuums, including the mental health continuum.
   • 1.3 Explain the difference between primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention.
   • 1.4 Identify the levels of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
   • 1.5 Describe the principles of harm reduction and their relationship to advocacy.
2. Discuss the major components of Canada’s health care system.
   • 2.1 Identify trends, issues, and challenges facing the Canadian health care system.
   • 2.2 Discuss the concept of health care privatization.
   • 2.3 Explore the different models of health care delivery in Canada.
3. Explain how the determinants of health impact individual health and wellness, including mental health and wellness.
   • 3.1 Identify the determinants of health affecting Indigenous people and the health inequities between non-Indigenous and Indigenous Peoples in Canada.
   • 3.2 Identify the requirements for healthy living.
   • 3.3 Discuss the significance of health statistics to health promotion.
4. Describe the concept of advocacy and the different types of advocacy that practical nurses engage in for clients and themselves.
   • 4.1 Describe what it means to be a client navigator to assist clients and families to navigate numerous systems associated with health care.
   • 4.2 Explore how practical nurses self-advocate for themselves and their role within the interprofessional health care team.
5. Describe how cultural safety, cultural humility, and anti-racism, as well as diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential to health promotion.
   • 5.1 Define the principles of health promotion in 2SLGBTQIA+^[1] care.
   • 5.2 Describe the importance of a trauma-informed approach within the context of health promotion.
   • 5.3 Discuss diversity in health beliefs and practices within a culturally diverse society.
   • 5.4 Discuss cultural competence in health promotion.
   • 5.5 Describe how nurses can promote health with Indigenous clients by providing culturally safe and anti-racist care.
6. Describe teaching and learning principles for health promotion across the lifespan.
   • 6.1 Discuss the influence of health education on health and wellness.
   • 6.2 Describe the learning domains.
   • 6.3 Discuss the components of a teaching-learning plan.
7. Describe the steps of communicable disease reporting.
   • 7.1 Identify health promotion strategies that minimize the risk of transmitting communicable diseases.
8. Describe well-known growth and development theories across the lifespan.
   • 8.1 Describe psychosocial, cognitive, and moral development across the lifespan.
   • 8.2 Discuss factors influencing typical growth and development.
   • 8.3 Explore the role that determinants of health play in growth and development.
   • 8.4 Discuss the relationship between knowledge of growth and development theories and nursing practice.

Course Concepts

Course outcomes will be met through examination and exploration of the following:

• BCCNM LPN Professional Standards, Practice Standards, and documents that guide scope of practice
• Canada’s health care system
• Holistic health
• Wellness and health
• Determinants of health
• Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
• Health promotion in the context of both physical and mental health
• Typical growth and development across the lifespan
• Health continuums
• Client advocacy and navigation
• Cultural safety and cultural humility in health promotion
• Health disparities and their impacts on people
• Impact of racism on health—particularly Indigenous-specific racism
• Diversity in health beliefs, including Indigenous beliefs and practices
• Introduction to health statistics and epidemiology
• Teaching and learning in health promotion
• Communicable diseases and epidemiology
• Harm reduction
• Recovery-oriented care
• Trauma-informed practice
• Health literacy