- International Fees
International fees are typically 3.12 times the domestic tuition. Exact cost will be calculated upon completion of registration.
Course Overview
Introduces emergency nursing and focuses on client perspectives of care in emergency settings. Provides opportunities to explore the concept of partnership with clients, families, and health care professionals in a time limited, changing environment. Introduces emergency skills such as assessment, urgency determination, and diagnostic reasoning. Provides opportunities to work through common, less complex emergency client presentations in the form of case studies, identifying concepts key to emergency nursing. Emphasizes examination of pathophysiology, assessment and decision-making. Students are given opportunities to work both individually and collaboratively, and will be expected to participate in group activities throughout this course.
Prerequisite(s)
- 75% in NSCC 7150
Credits
4.0
Domestic fees
$637.17 - $1,251.40 See individual course offerings below for actual costs.
Learning Outcomes
As a healthcare practitioner, you are expected to follow professional standards of practice throughout all SN programs and courses. In this course, you will have opportunities to use the processes of critical thinking, systematic inquiry, communication, collaboration, leadership, professionalism, and clinical decision-making. Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the social, political, and historical context of ED practice environments.
- Evaluate ethical dimensions of emergency nursing practice using a principle-based ethical framework as a guide.
- Reflect on your personal values and beliefs related to caring for non-urgent and marginalized patients in the emergency department.
- Relate the influence an emergency care environment has on the communication, collaboration, and partnership relationships for the nurse, patient, family, and health care team.
- Explain the importance of understanding the phenomenological or “lived experience” of patients and their families and how this impacts emergency nursing care.
- Apply the components of the systematic emergency nursing assessment framework to a variety of common acute and chronic patient presentations.
- Apply the concepts of the oxygen supply and demand framework to a variety of common and chronic patient presentations.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the level of urgency and prioritization of care for emergency patients.
- Apply knowledge of the anatomy and pathophysiology of major body systems to clinical findings in common emergency presentations.
- Demonstrate an understanding of appropriate pharmacological interventions for non-complex emergency patient presentations.
- Describe how to foster a collaborative partnership among nurses, patients, families, and other health care professionals within the context of an emergency setting.
- Use clinical reasoning to identify and manage actual and potential health-related problems for non-complex adult emergency patients.
- Interpret a variety of arterial blood gas (ABG) results and cardiac rhythms and determine the clinical significance and underlying pathophysiology of these findings.
Effective as of Spring/Summer 2023
Related Programs
Emergency Nursing Theory 1 (NSER 7110) is offered as a part of the following programs:
- Indicates programs accepting international students.
- Indicates programs with a co-op option.
School of Health Sciences
- Emergency Nursing Specialty (Combined Emergency/Critical Care Option)
Advanced Certificate Part-time
- Emergency Nursing Specialty (Pediatric Emergency Option)
Advanced Certificate Part-time
- Emergency Nursing Specialty (Standard Option)
Advanced Certificate Part-time
- Nursing
Bachelor of Science in Nursing Full-time
- Pediatric Emergency Nursing Specialty
Advanced Certificate Part-time
- Specialty Nursing (Emergency - Combined Emergency/Critical Care Option)
Bachelor of Science in Nursing Part-time
- Specialty Nursing (Emergency - Standard Option)
Bachelor of Science in Nursing Part-time
Course Offerings
Fall 2024
Below are two offerings of NSER 7110 for the Fall 2024 term.
CRN 36426
Dates
Tue Sep 03 - Fri Nov 22
- 12 weeks
- CRN 36426
- Domestic fees $1251.40
Status
In Progress
This course offering is in progress. Please check this page for other currently available offerings or subscribe to receive email updates.
Class meeting times
Dates | Days | Times | Locations |
---|---|---|---|
Sep 03 - Nov 22 | N/A | N/A | Online |
Instructor
Tatiana Rubalcava Vargas
Course outline
Important information
- Internet delivery format.
- Departmental approval needed
- Important course information will be sent to you prior to your course start date. Check your myBCIT email account to access this information.
- International fees are typically 3.12 times the domestic tuition. Exact cost will be calculated upon completion of registration.
- Contact Program Assistant at jackie_sousa@bcit.ca for approval to register. Online course, textbooks can be purchased from the BCIT bookstore.
CRN 36506
Dates
Tue Sep 03 - Fri Nov 22
- 12 weeks
- CRN 36506
- Domestic fees $637.17
Status
In Progress
This course offering is in progress. Please check this page for other currently available offerings or subscribe to receive email updates.
Class meeting times
Dates | Days | Times | Locations |
---|---|---|---|
Sep 03 - Nov 22 | N/A | N/A | Online |
Instructor
Tatiana Rubalcava Vargas
Course outline
Important information
- Available for exam challenge only.
- Departmental approval needed
- Important course information will be sent to you prior to your course start date. Check your myBCIT email account to access this information.
- International fees are typically 3.12 times the domestic tuition. Exact cost will be calculated upon completion of registration.
- This challenge section is for experienced ER nurses and requires program approval prior to registration. Contact Program Assistant at jackie_sousa@bcit.ca for approval to register.
Winter 2025
Below are two offerings of NSER 7110 for the Winter 2025 term.
CRN 76297
Dates
Mon Jan 06 - Fri Mar 28
- 12 weeks
- CRN 76297
- Domestic fees $1251.40
Status
Seats Available
This course offering has seats available.
Class meeting times
Dates | Days | Times | Locations |
---|---|---|---|
Jan 06 - Mar 28 | N/A | N/A | Online |
Instructor
TBD
Course outline
Course outline TBD — see Learning Outcomes in the interim.
Important information
- Internet delivery format.
- Departmental approval needed
- Important course information will be sent to you prior to your course start date. Check your myBCIT email account to access this information.
- International fees are typically 3.12 times the domestic tuition. Exact cost will be calculated upon completion of registration.
- Please contact the Program Assistant at jackie_sousa@bcit.ca for approval to register. Required textbooks can be purchased from the BCIT bookstore.
CRN 76335
Dates
Mon Jan 06 - Fri Mar 28
- 12 weeks
- CRN 76335
- Domestic fees $637.17
Status
Seats Available
This course offering has seats available.
Class meeting times
Dates | Days | Times | Locations |
---|---|---|---|
Jan 06 - Mar 28 | N/A | N/A | Distance |
Instructor
TBD
Course outline
Course outline TBD — see Learning Outcomes in the interim.
Important information
- Available for exam challenge only.
- Departmental approval needed
- Important course information will be sent to you prior to your course start date. Check your myBCIT email account to access this information.
- International fees are typically 3.12 times the domestic tuition. Exact cost will be calculated upon completion of registration.
- Please contact the Program Assistant at jackie_sousa@bcit.ca for approval to register.
Programs and courses are subject to change without notice.