COURSES TAUGHT
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES
NURS 425: Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis (Taught 2017 Sept-Dec).
This course offers a grounding in the techniques commonly used in the analysis of both quantitative and qualitative analysis. Students understand a range of statistics commonly used in nursing research and learn how they are used in a computer-based application. Students understand how qualitative data is used in nursing research and engage in the process of coding qualitative data through coding and thematic construction.
NURS 351/350 A03: Nursing practice VI Promoting Health of Communities and Society (Taught in 2018 Sept-Dec; 2018 Jan-May; 2020 Jan-April; 2021 Jan- April. (online & flipped classroom) NURS350Health and Healing VII: Promoting Community and Societal Health
I co developed this flipped classroom style to include relevant videos and hands on learner approaches for trauma and violence informed primary health care https://equiphealthcare.ca/. This provided interactive engagement with students to explore their knowledge for nursing as a practice of relationship and inquiry, in promoting community and societal health. I co designed the syllabus for this course which emphasizes working with community and society, from perspectives of social justice, health equity and political action, community development and capacity building for community health promotion, and transformative and emancipatory approaches to teaching and learning. In this course students engage in community-based learning activities such as developing a participatory logic model with communities to integrate theory and practice.
NURS 491: Nursing Practice VIII: Transitions (Taught in 2018 Jan-May)
NURS 475: Consolidated Practice Experience Women’s Surgical Unit (VGH) Cool Aid Society – Access Health Center (Taught in 2018 Jan-May).
Provides opportunities for participants to integrate learning from previous terms, and to advance their professional nursing practice. In a variety of settings, participants have opportunities to consolidate learning, and advance their clinical decision-making. Nursing practice experiences consist of a six-week practice placement.
NURS360: Professional Practice VI: Nursing Research (Taught in 2019 Jan-April; 2020 Jan-April; 2021 Jan- April). (Online and in person).
Building on Professional Practice II, III, and IV, participants enhance their understanding of nursing scholarship and their abilities to comprehend, critique and utilize nursing research. Participants critically reflect on various scholarly works and research methodologies. Participants experience ways to critically examine their practice in relation to nursing research and to pose research questions for evidence-informed practice.
NURS N456 Nursing within Communities & Health Systems 4th Year Leadership Practicum for BSN Students (Taught 2021 Sept-Dec)
Apply nursing knowledge, skills, judgements, and attributes where people intersect with communities, organizations and health systems. Students analyze and utilize evidence-informed data to: influence change, promote inter-professional collaboration to enhance continuity, address challenges and deliver safe, ethical, quality care, foster social justice, empowerment, and culturally competent practice, and provide leadership.
GRADUATE COURSES
NURS 525: Disciplinary Research for Advanced Practice Nursing (online) (Taught in 2019 May-Aug; 2020 May-Aug)
Develop an understanding of research processes comprising critical analysis of existing knowledge, including Indigenous perspectives, creating relevant research questions, discerning appropriate methodologies, and critiquing research within interpretive approaches and statistical literacy. Critique, expansion, and limits of research are examined within a researcher pathway, philosophical framework, and the integral role of research in advanced practice nursing.
NURS 522: Ethics for Health System Transformation (online) (Taught in 2019 May-Aug; 2020 May-Aug)
Explores various theories, including decolonizing practices and Indigenous perspectives that inform ethics for advanced practice nursing, collaboration, decision-making, and change in light of health care system trends, issues and roles for nurses. Critique, expansion, and limits of ethics are examined within a philosophical framework of ontological, epistemological, and ethical congruence.
Directed Studies SDH 590 (2021 Sept- April).
Intersectionality & Mental Health Social Dimensions of Health programme. This directed studies course is student centered to help facilitate the master student thesis in LGBTQIA+ migrant communities and mental health. This course will help the student develop a literature review (annotated bibliography) and reading list for theory development in intersectionality theory.
NURS 622 Dissertation Seminar PhD (Taught 2021 Sept-Dec).
Opportunities to engage in dialogue about topics that will support their preparation for doctoral candidacy exams and dissertation research. Students actively participate in the planning and process of the course, taking leadership roles and presenting their own scholarly work.
UBC Faculty of Medicine-PRHC 501 Foundations in Primary Health Care I Taught in 2020 December-2021 January).
Course instructor for module 2 “The Big Picture” Policy on Primary Health Care reforms from Macro to Micro level. I facilitated this learner module to explore primary health care reforms nationally and internationally from interdisciplinary perspectives. Drawing upon primary care networks in Surrey and North Delta, adult learners shared their experiences of primary care reforms and how primary care networks ‘work’ from disciplinary perspectives.
HSCI 830: Health Promotion in Partnership: Catalyzing Change (Taught in 2019, January-April) (Master’s Program Public Health, Simon Fraser University).
I developed this masters level course in health promotion for students to be able to work with enacting change in communities of interest. Catalyzing change was underpinned by principles of participatory action research and appreciative inquiry approaches, e.g., harnessing community strengths. Student groups worked with community-based agencies to develop planned action and logic models.