Practical Nursing

Learn to provide safe, ethical, and culturally sensitive nursing care for individuals and families at multiple life stages and in a variety of practice settings.

What You’ll Learn

• Apply the Entry to Practice Competencies for Licensed Practical Nurses (2013) to provide safe, competent, culturally safe and ethical care.
• Practice within relevant legislation, BCCNP Standards of Practice for LPNs Framework: Scope of Practice Standards; Professional Standards; and Practice Standards (2014) as set out by the Health Professions Act of British Columbia and the British Columbia College of Nursing Professionals.
• Value and engage in continuous learning to maintain and enhance competence.
• Practice in collaboration with other members of the health care team to meet the collective needs of their clients.
• Participate in interprofessional problem solving and decision making processes.
• Advocate for and facilitate change reflecting evidence-informed practice.
• Make practice decisions that are client specific and consider client acuity, complexity, variability, and available resources.
• Use critical thinking, clinical judgment and knowledge of assessment to plan, implement, and evaluate the agreed upon plan of care.
• Develop a collaborative relationship with clients by connecting, sharing and exploring with them in a caring environment.
• Provide culturally safe, person-centered care across the lifespan that recognizes and respects the uniqueness of each individual and is sensitive to cultural safety, cultural humility and diversity.
• Provide leadership, direction, assignment, and supervision of unregulated care providers as appropriate.
• Identify one’s own values, biases, and assumptions on interactions with clients and other members of the health care team.