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Ability to integrate multiple data sources and thinking strategies during a patient encounter to accurately identify diagnoses and implement appropriate management plans.
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A professional title attributed to a category of nursing professional that is granted by the individual’s professional regulatory authority.
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Regulated healthcare professional legally authorized and competent to perform an act who delegates their authority to perform that act to another individual.
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Individual who accepts the delegation of an act by a regulated healthcare professional.
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Each entry-level nursing program is required to map its curriculum to ETP competencies, for both preliminary approval (new programs) and the comprehensive review process (established programs), using the curriculum mapping tool. Programs use the tool to provide evidence that the entry-to-practice competencies, required to prepare graduates to be competent and…
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A process for collecting and documenting curriculum related information against specific criteria or standards. This process ensures an alignment between the standards of nursing practice, entry-to-practice competencies and the educational content being taught. It also identifies and addresses academic gaps, redundancies and misalignments between courses and entry-to-practice competencies.
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The planned process for achieving a nursing education program’s intended outcomes. For purposes of program approval, nursing curricula includes theoretical foundations, learning activities to foster theory application by students and evaluation of student learning.
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An individual’s beliefs, norms, and values that influence their opinions, thoughts, and behaviours in everyday decision-making. Culture is a complex relational process influenced by history, personal experiences, and perceptions of society. Culture evolves and is not limited to ethnicity or race; it also comprises age, language, gender expression, sexual orientation,…
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An environment, which is safe for people, where there is no assault, challenge or denial of their identity of who they are and what they need. It is about shared respect, shared meaning, shared knowledge and experience, of learning together with dignity.
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Culturally safe care is a refinement of the “cultural safety” concept. Nurses do everything they can to provide culturally safe care, but they remain aware that they are in a position of power in nurse-client relationships, and some clients may never feel entirely safe. Nurses allow those who receive care…
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Recognizing the need to respect cultural differences. Cultural sensitivity involves exhibiting “behaviours that are considered polite and respectful by the [person who has cultural differences from your own]”.
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Cultural safety is an outcome based on respectful engagement that recognizes and strives to address power imbalances inherent in the healthcare system. It results in an environment free of racism and discrimination, where people feel safe when receiving health care.
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