Professional Degree courses in Dentistry, Education, Law, Medicine and Theology (MTS, MDiv)
6000-6999
Courses offered by Continuing Studies
9000-9999
Graduate Studies courses
* These courses are equivalent to pre-university introductory courses and may be counted for credit in the student's record, unless these courses were taken in a preliminary year. They may not be counted toward essay or breadth requirements, or used to meet modular admission requirements unless it is explicitly stated in the Senate-approved outline of the module.
Suffixes
no suffix
1.0 course not designated as an essay course
A
0.5 course offered in first term
B
0.5 course offered in second term
A/B
0.5 course offered in first and/or second term
E
1.0 essay course
F
0.5 essay course offered in first term
G
0.5 essay course offered in second term
F/G
0.5 essay course offered in first and/or second term
H
1.0 accelerated course (8 weeks)
J
1.0 accelerated course (6 weeks)
K
0.75 course
L
0.5 graduate course offered in summer term (May - August)
Q/R/S/T
0.25 course offered within a regular session
U
0.25 course offered in other than a regular session
W/X
1.0 accelerated course (full course offered in one term)
Y
0.5 course offered in other than a regular session
Z
0.5 essay course offered in other than a regular session
Glossary
Prerequisite
A course that must be successfully completed prior to registration for credit in the desired course.
Corequisite
A course that must be taken concurrently with (or prior to registration in) the desired course.
Antirequisite
Courses that overlap sufficiently in course content that both cannot be taken for credit.
Essay Courses
Many courses at Western have a significant writing component. To recognize student achievement, a number of such courses have been designated as essay courses and will be identified on the student's record (E essay full course; F/G/Z essay half-course).
Principal Courses
A first year course that is listed by a department offering a module as a requirement for admission to the module. For admission to an Honours Specialization module or Double Major modules in an Honours Bachelor degree, at least 3.0 courses will be considered principal courses.
Students critically examine the historical development of nursing and the framework for Registered Nursing practice, including the philosophical, theoretical, and ethical tenets of the role. Using a variety of theories and conceptual frameworks, students acquire an understanding of how individual values, beliefs, perceptions, and experiences influence perspectives and nursing practice.
Antirequisite(s): The former Nursing 1060A/B and the former Nursing 1070A/B.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Year 1 of the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN Program.
Students will acquire strategies to transition into the university and the BScN program which will help them acquire the foundational skills necessary to succeed both academically and in professional nursing practice.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Year 1 of the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN Program or registration in the Compressed Time Frame BScN Program.
Development of communication skills including therapeutic communication and health history acquisition is addressed in this course. Students engage in learning opportunities to enhance capabilities in therapeutic communication, interviewing, and relational practices with clients across the lifespan. Students document client care in accordance with legal standards of practice.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Year 1 of the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN Program.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours and 2 simulation hours.
Nursing interventions use theory to create environments of care to promote health and healing. In this course, students focus on use of theory-driven clinical practice models in leadership, interprofessional collaborative practice and client safety, to promote positive outcomes of care.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in the Compressed Time Frame BScN Program (RPN Pathway B).
Demonstrating professional accountability as a Registered Nurse is a requirement involving self-reflection, continuous practice review and evidence of how this is enacted in practice. In this course, students develop e-portfolios that articulate their vision of professional nursing and health care and provide evidence of implementation in practice.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in the Compressed Time Frame BScN Program (RPN Pathway B).
Students critically examine models of care and sources of knowledge in community nursing practice including public health, community home health and primary healthcare. Applying principles of primary healthcare, social justice, and equity, students critique how policy, practice, culture and societal norms impact health of the individual, family, community and population.
Antirequisite(s): The former Nursing 2220A/B.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Year 1 of the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN Program or registration in the Compressed Time Frame BScN Program.
In this course students have an opportunity to develop foundational knowledge, skills, and competencies related to the use, application, and evaluation of technology across all domains of nursing practice. The influence and implications of technology on clients, families, communities, society, the nursing profession, and nursing practice will also be explored.
Antirequisite(s): the former Nursing 2240F/G.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Year 1 of the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN Program or the Compressed Time Frame BScN Program
In this course, application of clinical judgement models provide students a framework to convey information from health assessments as a foundational part of nursing practice. Conducting a focused examination of clients using a system based approach enables students to utilize theoretical components of health assessment in the laboratory environment.
Prerequisite(s):Nursing 1080A/B, with a grade of 65% or greater.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours and 2 laboratory hours.
Introduction to social determinants of health, social justice and health equity are foundational components in this course. Impacts of policy, politics, power, and privilege are investigated to understand how historic healthcare system inequities continue to disadvantage and marginalize specific populations. The impact of colonizing practices is threaded throughout the course.
Antirequisite(s): The former Nursing 1070A/B and the former Nursing 1170A/B.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Year 1 of the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN Program.
The philosophical, theoretical and ethical tenets of the nursing profession are essential components to understanding the professional nursing role. In this course students are introduced to the history, image and framework of nursing practice, self-regulation, nursing organizations, self-awareness and emotional intelligence, interprofessional collaboration, the nurse-client relationship, and professional communication.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in the Compressed Time Frame BScN program.
In this course application of clinical judgement models provide students a framework to convey information from health assessments as a foundational part of nursing practice. Conducting a focused examination of clients using a system based approach enables students to utilize theoretical components of health assessment in the laboratory environment.
Using laboratory and simulated practice, students utilize nursing knowledge and skill in client safety and evidence-informed practice to support health. Issues of care delivery focusing on unique and diverse individual responses, beliefs and building capacity for restoration of health are components of the course.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Year 2 of the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN program.
Extra Information: Laboratory and Simulated Practice, Pass/Fail.
In this course students will become knowledgeable consumers and users of research. Through a consideration of ways of knowing and questioning related to nursing research, students will explore basic strategies for identifying knowledge gaps through critical appraisal of research. Research roles and methods pertinent to nursing will be emphasized.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Year 2 of the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN program, or the Compressed Time Frame BScN program.
Aging is a major factor impacting healthcare delivery in the 21st century, and older adults are the core consumers of health care. In this course, students apply clinical decision-making by correlating physiologic, psychological and environmental interactions with older adults while focusing on cultural, social, ethical, and legal concepts of care.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Year 2 of the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN program.
Students are introduced to the fundamentals of nursing practice by employing physical and communication skills in the care delivery for older adults in laboratory and practice settings. A focus on building relationships, the nursing role, and system transformation will be examined.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Year 2 of the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN program.
Extra Information: Laboratory and Clinical Practice, PASS/FAIL
Students will analyze the development of human disease by exploring common health related problems including the age-related, genetic, environmental, and behavioural influences on disease development. While further developing critical thinking in nursing care, changes to the structure and function of tissue and organs and resultant clinical manifestations will be examined.
Antirequisite(s): Pathology 2420A/B.
Extra information: 3 lecture hours.
Students are introduced to the nursing role in providing mental health care emphasizing awareness, prevalence and stigma associated with mental health challenges across the lifespan from a strength-based perspective.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in the Compressed Time Frame BScN program.
The complexity of health issues requires students to utilize multiple sources of information to understand how these conditions impact the individual, family, and society. Using clinical reasoning, focusing on integration of assessment, students develop knowledge and skill in client-centred care planning for optimal health outcomes.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Year 2 of the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN program, or the Compressed Time Frame BScN program.
Students will apply their knowledge and skills with clients experiencing mental health challenges. Practice will take place in a simulated environment.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in the Compressed Time Frame BScN program.
Understanding how contextual factors impact health in countries or regions with limited resources is important for understanding the nurse’s role in advancing health policy in a local and global perspective. Through examining current events analyze issues of social justice in health and health care.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Year 3 or 4 of the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN program, or the Compressed Time Frame BScN program.
A supervised practicum in which students will provide culturally-appropriate care. Health promotion, caring, mutual goal-setting, social justice, and advocacy will be addressed in situations of limited resources. Preparatory and follow-up activities are required.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing.
Extra Information: 4 weeks, 40 hours/week, Summer term.
Students are introduced to basic concepts and techniques used to analyze both qualitative and quantitative data. This will include descriptive and inferential statistics and common methods for qualitative analysis and interpretation.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Year 2 or 3 of the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN program, or the Compressed Time Frame BScN program.
Covers foundational concepts of mental health and nursing care in the context of mental illness, including addictions. Key course principles include health promotion, a recovery orientation, trauma and violence-informed care, stigma reduction, and the continuum of mental health. Learning includes participatory engagement in mental health assessment and therapeutic communication.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Year 3 or 4 of the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN Program or permission of the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing.
This course examines concepts associated with caring for the geriatric population through a holistic, strengths-based lens. Students will focus on common health syndromes, social factors influencing health, and family considerations, to provide the context for addressing the unique care needs of the aging adult.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Year 3 or 4 of the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN Program or permission of the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing.
This course provides a philosophical and theoretical foundation for understanding individual, newborn, and family health issues through preconception, pregnancy, labor, birth, neonatal transition to six weeks postpartum. Applications to the development of nursing interventions that promote perinatal and newborn health are also discussed.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Year 3 or 4 of the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN Program or permission of the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing.
This course will provide opportunities to develop an understanding of the cancer care continuum for clients and families. Students will focus on key concepts related to prevention, screening, diagnosis, management, palliation and survivorship within oncology care.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Year 3 or 4 of the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN Program or permission of the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing.
This course explores the roles that nurses perform in home care nursing practice. Exploration is guided through two mid-range theories and the application of the Canadian Home Care Nursing Practice Competencies. Learners will gain an understanding of similarities and differences between nursing roles in hospitals and home care nursing practice.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Year 3 or 4 of the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN Program or permission of the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing.
This course will provide an interprofessional learning environment with opportunities for students to critically examine and reflect on Indigenous health and health care practices. Health policy concepts will be embedded within historical, social, cultural and political realities.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Year 3 of the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN program, or the Compressed Time Frame BScN program.
This course explores the realities of providing care within the setting in which patients and their caregivers live and work. Learners will explore levels of risk and safety for patients, family members and the nurse through learning activities designed as composites of situational experiences commonly faced by home care nurses.
Prerequisite(s):Nursing 3450A/B, or permission of the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing.
Provides simulated learning in the application of common nursing practice skills within a variety of home-based situations. Students learn how to make autonomous decisions and how to adapt to unique situations not typically experienced in hospital-based practice. Provides a safe learning environment to practice skills and learn from peers.
Pediatric nursing is dedicated to the health and care of young people, ranging from babies to teenagers. Children, as patients, have unique healthcare needs that require specialized knowledge and expertise in their growth, illness, and injury.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Year 3 or 4 of the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN Program or permission of the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing.
Nurses support individuals and families from conception through adolescence. In this course, the nursing role to improve immediate and longer term health outcomes through health promotion, protection and prevention of illness in the context of individual and family development is presented.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Year 3 of the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN program, or the Compressed Time Frame BScN program.
Changing health needs of clients across the life span requires critical thinking, application of individualized care, integration of health assessment, evidence-informed practices and diverse client support from an interprofessional team. Client safety and client-centred practices using nursing approach form the basis of this course.
Antirequisite(s): The former Nursing 3600W/X.
Prerequisite(s):Nursing 2630A/B; Registration in Year 3 of the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN Program or the Compressed Time Frame BScN program.
Students will apply theory and integrate concepts related to health promotion and caring with clients experiencing health challenges. The focus of this course is the acquisition of nursing skills, utilizations of technological interventions, and application of evidence informed practice.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in the Compressed Time Frame BScN program.
In this course students will have the opportunity to learn about the nursing role in complex health challenges, from a health promotion perspective, in a simulated hospital setting.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Compressed Time Frame BScN program.
The host immune response to microorganisms, the biology of microorganisms with disease-causing potential and clinical aspects of infectious diseases will be covered. The role and professional attitude of the nurse in prevention, detection and control of infections will be emphasized.
This course provides students with opportunity to extend their understanding of health promotion to the care of adults and children experiencing acute and chronic health challenges.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Year 3 of the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN Program.
Corequisite(s):Nursing 3911A/B.
Utilizing therapeutic communication and nursing knowledge and skills, students apply patient-centred practices for clients with acute health challenges in hospital settings. Through provision of care and health promotion activities students work with the interprofessional healthcare team to integrate applicable theoretical perspectives into nursing care for these clients.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Year 3 of the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN Program.
Using a recovery model approach, students implement techniques to assist in the care and management of individuals living with mental illness. Students learn to navigate the complexities of intersectoral, intergovernmental structures and policies that limit access to mental health services using cultural safety knowledge and trauma and violence-informed approaches.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Year 3 of the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN Program.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours and Simulated Practice.
In a variety of healthcare settings, students will apply and integrate theory related to the care of clients with a range of complex and concurrent health challenges. Additionally, students will gain insights into a variety of nursing roles and clients’ and families’ experiences and the nature of illness.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Year 3 of the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN Program.
Students critically examine the professional, ethical, and legal accountabilities in nursing to practice safely, competently, compassionately, and ethically. A deep exploration of professional practice standards, nursing legislation, codes of ethics and ethical theories will enable students to apply these core principles to their nursing practice.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Year 3 or 4 of the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN program, or the Compressed Time Frame BScN program.
This course will assist students to integrate multiple sources of knowledge gained in the program to engage in in-depth exploration of health/illness issues.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Year 4 of the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN program or the Compressed Time Frame BScN program.
Students integrate multiple sources of knowledge and practice application to engage in management of complex health conditions. Recognition of urgent and rapidly changing client scenarios is practiced through use of critical thinking to implement interventions that improve client outcomes.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Year 4 of the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN program or the Compressed Time Frame BScN program.
With a deeper understanding of the healthcare system and integrating principles of health equity, students will engage with clients and families experiencing health/illness challenges. Students will apply concepts learned through the program at an advanced level to work with clients and families as members within the interprofessional team.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Year 4 of the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN program or the Compressed Time Frame BScN program.
Students analyze the role of nursing in shaping and influencing transformation across the healthcare system by focusing on contemporary issues in nursing, healthcare and health policy. The essential role of leadership in current and future nursing practice and healthcare change is explored.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Year 4 of the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN program or the Compressed Time Frame BScN program.
Students work to synthesize knowledge and experience gained throughout the program, specifically in the Operating Room. Students focus on gaining proficiency in evidence-informed practice, developing leadership skills and independence, and creating an individual philosophy of practice. Ultimately, students work towards the Association of Operating Room Nurses (AORN) credentialing.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Year 4 of the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN program or the Compressed Time Frame BScN program.
In this course students work with a preceptor to synthesize knowledge and experience gained throughout the program. Students will focus on gaining proficiency in evidence-informed practice, developing leadership skills and independence, and creating an individual philosophy of practice.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Year 4 of the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN program or the Compressed Time Frame BScN program.
Explore the fundamental principles and practices of perioperative nursing. Students will learn to scrub, gown, glove, and mask using strict aseptic technique. Lab practice will include draping and skin preparation. Students will be introduced to the selection and use of surgical instruments, supplies, and equipment used in the surgical suite.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Year 4 of the Western-Fanshawe Collaborative BScN program.