NURS 123 - Health and Wellness Across the Lifespan

3 units (fi 6)(SECOND, 3-0-0)

Faculty of Nursing

This course will explore concepts of health, wellness and illness across the lifespan and the nurse's role in promoting wellness. Maintaining a strength-based focus, the concept of development across the lifespan will be discussed. Students will be encouraged to consider the impact of biopsychosocial and cultural factors on development and how values, beliefs and attitudes affect health and illness perceptions and behaviors. Goals of Care, chronicity, and the impact of planetary health and genomics on health and wellness across the lifespan will also be introduced. Note: Available only to students in the Collaborative Program. Prerequisites: MMI 133 (or equivalent), NURS 106 (or NURS 140 and 150), and NURS 120. Corequisite: NURS 124, NURS 125.