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The ethical obligation to keep someone’s personal and private information secret or private.
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One component of the program approval framework used to approve entry-level nursing education programs. For the comprehensive review, all program approval indicators are reviewed every seven years, unless annual review results are unsatisfactory, and the program’s approval score is calculated.
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The terms “complementary medicine” and “alternative medicine” refer to a broad set of health care practices that are not part of that country’s own traditional or conventional medicine and are not fully integrated into the dominant health care system. Terminology related to care practices and approaches continue to evolve; ‘integrative…
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A component of knowledge, skill, and/or judgement, demonstrated by an individual, for safe, ethical, and effective nursing practice.
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An individual’s capability for consistently integrating the required knowledge, skill and judgment for safe, ethical, and effective nursing practice.
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The ability to recognize and be aware of the suffering and vulnerability of another, coupled with a commitment to respond with competence, knowledge and skill.
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An organized group of people bound together by social, ethnic, cultural or occupational ties, or by geographic location.
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Home and community care services help people to receive care at home, rather than in a hospital or long-term care facility, and to live as independently as possible in the community. Home and community care is delivered by regulated health care professionals (e.g., nurses), non-regulated workers, volunteers, friends and family…
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The transmission of verbal and/or non-verbal messages between a sender and a receiver for the purpose of exchanging or disseminating meaningful, accurate, clear, concise, complete and timely information (includes the transmission using technology)
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A dominant society that “discovers” and claims rights to unsurrended lands already lived upon by its original (i.e. Indigenous) inhabitants. The colonial power (or colonizer) then determines and shapes laws, languages, economies, social relations, and cultural life, and subject all people on the land to these dominant norms (e.g. Christianity,…
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All health-care providers and nurses working in all domains of practice.
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A baccalaureate nursing education program offered in partnership between a College and a University. The students may take all or part of their nursing curriculum at the College or the University. The program degree is granted by the University.
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