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Rachel Perry

Associate Teaching Professor, Faculty of Nursing

Contact

Associate Teaching Professor, Faculty of Nursing
Email
rdperry@ualberta.ca
Address
4-221 Dianne and Irving Kipnes Health Research Academy
11405 87 Ave NW
Edmonton AB
T6G 1C9

Courses

NURS 106 - Foundations of Anatomy and Physiology for Nursing

Introduction to the structure and function of the human body. The course focuses on the relationship between the form and function of the healthy human body. Note: Available only to nursing students in the Collaborative Program. Corequisites: INT D 120 and NURS 120. Credit cannot be obtained for NURS 106 if credit is granted for NURS 140 and NURS 150.


NURS 123 - Health and Wellness Across the Lifespan

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: INT D 120 (or equivalent), NURS 106 (or NURS 140 and NURS 150), and NURS 120. Corequisites: NURS 124, NURS 125.


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