Course Calendar 2011-2012 - Champlain College Saint-Lambert

Nursing (180.A0)
The Exit Profile
The Exit Profile of the graduate nurse is informed by the
OIIQ document ‘Outlook on the Practice of Nursing’ (2005),
and more particularly by the section entitled ‘Goal of
Nursing Practice’. Nursing practice enables people (person,
family, group and/or community) to take charge of their
health, according to their capacities and the resources
available in their environment, regardless of their stage of
life and regardless of their phase of illness. Nursing practice
also has the purpose of enabling persons to ensure their
own well-being and to maintain a good quality of life.
The Exit Profile encompasses seven aspects of nursing
practice that the graduate is expected to fulfill in his/her
role as nurse. These include: the nurse-patient partnership,
health promotion, prevention of disease, accidents and
social problems, the therapeutic process, functional
rehabilitation, quality of life and professional commitment.
For each of these seven dimensions, the relevant elements
of practice for the new graduate are described henceforth.
1. NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP Principle: All patients are
responsible for their own health. When patients express a
need or expectation, the graduate nurse, taking into
account patients’ capacities, encourages them to mobilize
their personal resources and those available in the
environment. The nurse-patient alliance is established
through a relationship characterized by mutual respect and
shared objectives.
Elements of Practice:
1.1 The graduate nurse recognizes that each patient is
unique as a person. The graduate nurse establishes a
partnership with the patient and helps the family participate
in the care of the patient. This partnership is reflected in the
nurse’s approach, notably by her attentiveness and the way
in which she responds to needs and expectations expressed
by the patient.
1.2 The graduate nurse uses a nursing process to plan care
and treatment activities with patients based on their needs
and expectations. In the Therapeutic Nursing Plan, the
graduate nurse uses strategies that ensure continuity and
follow-up of nursing and medical care and treatment, and
helps patients to use their personal resources as well as
resources available within their environment.
2. HEALTH PROMOTION
Principle: All patients aspire to health and well-being. The
graduate nurse helps patients to implement their choices
while respecting their capacities, which may vary over time.
Patients’ choices are dependent upon their expectations,
personal resources and the resources within their
environment.
Elements of Practice:
2.1 The graduate nurse helps patients to use and broaden
their personal repertoire of resources to maintain or to
improve their health and well-being. The graduate nurse
facilitates knowledge transfer of health-related information
to patients and helps them to make choices. The graduate
nurse acknowledges the health-related behaviours that
patients have acquired and takes patients’ learning styles
into account in the teaching-learning process.
2.2 The graduate nurse trains/informs others in the care
delivery context who can help the patient in health
promotion activities. The graduate nurse collaborates with
the patient when choosing the most relevant educational
strategies.
3. PREVENTION of DISEASE, ACCIDENTS and SOCIAL
PROBLEMS
Principle: All patients face risks related to their state of
health, living habits, life transitions or to the environment.
The graduate nurse helps patients to identify potential
problems related to these risks and helps patients adapt to
actual problems in order to maintain their health and wellbeing.
Elements of Practice:
3.1 In collaboration with patients and other health
professionals, the graduate nurse carries out programs and
care activities to prevent infections, accidents, crisis
situations or violence. The graduate nurse assesses risks for
patients. When a risk situation is detected, the graduate
nurse determines the appropriate screening and preventive
measures. The graduate nurse ensures that monitoring and
follow-up measures are integrated into the therapeutic
nursing plan.
3.2 The graduate nurse determines the need for restraint
measures to protect the patient, after evaluating alternate
possible solutions and consulting members of the
interdisciplinary team as necessary. The graduate nurse
determines and records the clinical monitoring parameters
in the patient’s therapeutic nursing plan. The graduate
nurse carries out diagnostic procedures for screening
purposes and performs vaccinations in conjunction with
public health-related activities.