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Courses - September 2025

Level 1

Course details

Human Biology
BIOL71000

Description: An introduction to the basic structure and function of the human body. Knowledge of the theories of homeostasis and the basic structure of cells, tissues, organs, and systems. Basic microbiology and physiology related to practice and human disease is included.
  • Hours: 56
  • Credits: 4
  • Pre-Requisites:
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Human Biochemistry
CHEM71030

Description:

Learners are introduced to foundational concepts in human biochemistry including energy provision, biochemical regulation, and signaling systems. The structure and function of bio-chemical molecules are explored. Primary processes are examined in relationship to human health and nutrition. Clinical application of course topics is emphasized.

  • Hours: 42
  • Credits: 3
  • Pre-Requisites:
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Human Biochemistry Lab/Tutorial
CHEM71040

Description:

This course provides learners with an opportunity to examine foundational biochemical processes and clinical applications in an active learning environment.

  • Hours: 28
  • Credits: 2
  • Pre-Requisites:
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Conestoga 101
CON0101

Description: This self-directed course focuses on introducing new students to the supports, services, and opportunities available at Conestoga College. By the end of this course, students will understand the academic expectations of the Conestoga learning environment, as well as the supports available to ensure their academic success. Students will also be able to identify on-campus services that support their health and wellness, and explore ways to get actively involved in the Conestoga community through co-curricular learning opportunities.
  • Hours: 1
  • Credits: 0
  • Pre-Requisites:
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Introduction to Concepts of Health and Wellbeing
HEAL71020

Description:

In this course, the learner has the opportunity to examine conceptualizations of health. Topics include: health policy, health access, and current issues in health. Models of health and wellbeing are explored as is health equity.

  • Hours: 42
  • Credits: 3
  • Pre-Requisites:
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Safety in the Workplace
OHS71320

Description: This course focuses on developing awareness and skills for the student to safely manage and conduct him or herself within a variety of employment settings. Through the units of the course, participants will have the opportunity to enhance their understanding and knowledge of general Health and Safety guidelines, including WHMIS, Fire Safety and Workplace Violence. The unit on Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act will instruct the student on the requirements for Accessible Customer Service and Integrated Accessibility Standard Regulations. General information on Safe Driving, Privacy of Information and Hand Washing will be addressed as well. The course also provides participants with critical information regarding their insurance coverage (WSIB or other) while employed. As well as guidelines to follow in the event of an injury. Participants will receive a printable Record of Completion upon successful conclusion of this course, in order to demonstrate awareness of safe working practices to their employers.
  • Hours: 14
  • Credits: 1
  • Pre-Requisites:
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Psychology: Basic Processes Of Behaviour
PSYC71240

Description: Psychology is the scientific study of human thought processes, emotions and behaviour. Topics of interest to psychologists include all aspects of everyday life, from simple to complex thought processes to behaviours that might surprise us. This course introduces students to the basic processes of human behaviour. The course begins with a brief history of psychology and its emergence as a science. Areas of study include: the biological bases of behaviour; memory consciousness; social psychology; emotion; personality and psychological disorders and their treatment.
  • Hours: 42
  • Credits: 3
  • Pre-Requisites:
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Level 2

Course details

Focused Human Anatomy and Physiology
ANAT71000

Description:

Throughout this course, learners examine the body's anatomical structures and physiological processes. Relationship between the structure and function of body systems, including the respiratory, circulatory, gastrointestinal, and musculoskeletal systems, are examined. Anatomical and physiological considerations of health across the lifespan are introduced.

  • Hours: 42
  • Credits: 3
  • Pre-Requisites: BIOL71000
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Microbiology, Immunology and Cellular Science
BIOL71040

Description:

In this course, learners are introduced to the lifecycles of microorganisms including bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites. Learners explore relationships between microorganisms and the human body. Foundational concepts of immunology are introduced, including the immune system's components and responses. Nursing roles in preventing infectious spread, managing outbreaks, and detecting infection are addressed

  • Hours: 42
  • Credits: 3
  • Pre-Requisites:
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Academic Communications
ENGL71000

Description:

This course is intended to develop the communication skills required in academic studies, which will translate into useful writing and presentation skills in Canada’s increasingly intercultural professional and technical domains. Students will practice planning, drafting, and revising documents. The complex process of researching, creating, and revising arguments will encourage critical thinking, grammatical writing, and appropriate citation skills. Correct formatting of research papers and effective oral presentation skills will be emphasized.

  • Hours: 42
  • Credits: 3
  • Pre-Requisites:
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Nursing Care 1: Foundations of Nursing Practice
NURS71000

Description:

Learners are introduced to foundational nursing practice activities including general and focussed health assessments. The application of professional standards and various theoretical foundations will be introduced in the learning environment.

  • Hours: 56
  • Credits: 4
  • Pre-Requisites:
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Electives: Interdisciplinary Elective
Student must pass 1 Course(s), selected in the Student Portal from available course options

View Program Option Electives

Please note that all courses may not be offered in all semesters. Go to your student portal for full timetabling details under "My Courses".

Psychology: Basic Processes Of Behaviour
PSYC71240

Description: Psychology is the scientific study of human thought processes, emotions and behaviour. Topics of interest to psychologists include all aspects of everyday life, from simple to complex thought processes to behaviours that might surprise us. This course introduces students to the basic processes of human behaviour. The course begins with a brief history of psychology and its emergence as a science. Areas of study include: the biological bases of behaviour; memory consciousness; social psychology; emotion; personality and psychological disorders and their treatment.
  • Hours: 42
  • Credits: 3
  • Pre-Requisites:
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Canadian Multiculturalism
SOC73140

Description: This course traces the history and evolution of immigration and multiculturalism in Canada. Integral to the course is an overview of the emergence of Canada as a model of cultural pluralism by means of legal and policy structures in place to uphold multiculturalism. Students will also explore how Canada has attempted to protect the rights of its citizens. In addition, attention is paid to the challenges that are faced by newcomers and Indigenous peoples. Students will develop an understanding of the demographics of migration, the impact of colonialism on the Indigenous Peoples, the immigration policies of Canada, the legal and social impacts of the Canadian Multicultural Act and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the struggle for identity maintenance. Finally, the course takes up the ideas of challenges to multiculturalism in an era of globalization.
  • Hours: 42
  • Credits: 3
  • Pre-Requisites:
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Level 3

Course details

Professional Nursing Practice 1: Foundations of Nursing
FPLT72000

Description:

In this foundational nursing course, learners are introduced to nursing standards and patient safety in a professional practice setting. Learners have the opportunity to apply therapeutic communication, clinical reasoning and assessment, and nursing theory in caring for others.

  • Hours: 54
  • Credits: 4
  • Pre-Requisites: NURS71000 AND OHS71320
  • CoRequisites:

Introduction to Nursing Knowledge
NURS72050

Description:

In this course, learners have the opportunity to examine nursing from various perspectives including professional, ethical, and legal orientations. An emphasis is placed on core curricular concepts including relational inquiry, cultural humility, and standards of nursing practice.

  • Hours: 42
  • Credits: 3
  • Pre-Requisites:
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Pharmacotherapeutics
PHAR72000

Description:

In this course, learners are introduced to pharmacological concepts including drug actions, interactions, and adverse drug reactions. Pharmacotherapeutics are primarily explored from a body systems perspective. Legal, ethical, and social pharmacological considerations are explored in care scenarios on topics including pain management and non-prescribed pharmacological use.

  • Hours: 42
  • Credits: 3
  • Pre-Requisites: ANAT71000 AND CHEM71030 AND CHEM71040
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Psychology: Dynamics of Human Behaviour
PSYC72240

Description: This course introduces the student to scholarly and scientific research concerning genetics and behaviour, followed by an examination of development throughout the life span. Further topics include: gender and sexuality, sensation and perception, learning, thinking and intelligence, motivation and emotion, and stress, health and human flourishing. Students explore the research process and apply psychological concepts to their lived experience.
  • Hours: 42
  • Credits: 3
  • Pre-Requisites:
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Electives: Interdisciplinary Elective
Student must pass 1 Course(s), selected in the Student Portal from available course options

Level 4

Course details

Professional Nursing Practice 2: Acute Care
FPLT72010

Description:

In an acute care setting, learners will have the opportunity to engage in nursing practice that supports the delivery of safe and ethical care. An emphasis is placed on skill development, clinical judgement, reflexive practice, and engaging with standards of practice.

  • Hours: 164
  • Credits: 6
  • Pre-Requisites: FPLT72000 AND PHAR72000
  • CoRequisites: NURS72040

Health and Wellbeing: Indigenous Ways of Knowing
NURS72020

Description:

Learners will critically examine Indigenous health and healing practices through the lenses of Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Health Equity. Learners will explore the impact of major historical and current events on Indigenous health and self-determination. An appreciation for culturally safe nursing practice will be developed by exploring topics of colonialism, anti-racism, Truth and Reconciliation, trauma-informed care, and strength-based approaches to healing. Learners will explore nursing roles and responsibilities related to healthy public policy, system change, allyship, and nursing leadership.

  • Hours: 42
  • Credits: 3
  • Pre-Requisites:
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Nursing Pathophysiology
NURS72030

Description:

In this course, learners have the opportunity to examine various pathophysiological conditions of the human body. Learners will examine the nursing assessment and care of people experiencing anatomical and physiological disruptions.

  • Hours: 42
  • Credits: 3
  • Pre-Requisites: CHEM71030 AND CHEM71040
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Nursing Care 2: Acute Care
NURS72040

Description:

In this course, learners will develop their knowledge and clinical skills in medical surgical nursing. Learners will have opportunity to safely apply clinical reasoning and nursing skills in a scenario-based setting.

  • Hours: 56
  • Credits: 4
  • Pre-Requisites: FPLT72000 AND PHAR72000
  • CoRequisites: FPLT72010
Electives: Interdisciplinary Elective
Student must pass 1 Course(s), selected in the Student Portal from available course options

View Program Option Electives

Please note that all courses may not be offered in all semesters. Go to your student portal for full timetabling details under "My Courses".

Psychology: Basic Processes Of Behaviour
PSYC71240

Description: Psychology is the scientific study of human thought processes, emotions and behaviour. Topics of interest to psychologists include all aspects of everyday life, from simple to complex thought processes to behaviours that might surprise us. This course introduces students to the basic processes of human behaviour. The course begins with a brief history of psychology and its emergence as a science. Areas of study include: the biological bases of behaviour; memory consciousness; social psychology; emotion; personality and psychological disorders and their treatment.
  • Hours: 42
  • Credits: 3
  • Pre-Requisites:
  • CoRequisites:

Canadian Multiculturalism
SOC73140

Description: This course traces the history and evolution of immigration and multiculturalism in Canada. Integral to the course is an overview of the emergence of Canada as a model of cultural pluralism by means of legal and policy structures in place to uphold multiculturalism. Students will also explore how Canada has attempted to protect the rights of its citizens. In addition, attention is paid to the challenges that are faced by newcomers and Indigenous peoples. Students will develop an understanding of the demographics of migration, the impact of colonialism on the Indigenous Peoples, the immigration policies of Canada, the legal and social impacts of the Canadian Multicultural Act and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the struggle for identity maintenance. Finally, the course takes up the ideas of challenges to multiculturalism in an era of globalization.
  • Hours: 42
  • Credits: 3
  • Pre-Requisites:
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Level 5

Course details

Professional Nursing Practice 3: Clinical Specialties
FPLT73020

Description:

Learners will have the opportunity to apply their nursing knowledge, skills, judgement, and attitudes in a specialized acute care setting such as maternity, pediatrics, or mental health. Learners will have the opportunity to demonstrate competency in developing, applying, and evaluating care plans.

  • Hours: 164
  • Credits: 6
  • Pre-Requisites: BIOL71040 AND FPLT72010 AND NURS72030 AND NURS72040 AND OHS71320 AND PHAR72000
  • CoRequisites:

Critical Appraisal of Research and Information in Nursing
NURS73000

Description:

In this course, learners are introduced to knowledge development and appraisal in nursing, including the appreciation and application of diverse sources of knowledge. Throughout the course, an emphasis is placed on the interpretation and application of health sciences literature and clinical guidelines to nursing practice.

  • Hours: 42
  • Credits: 3
  • Pre-Requisites:
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Nursing Care 3: Caring in diverse settings
NURS73010

Description:

Learners will have the opportunity to demonstrate knowledge, skills, judgement, and attitudes in perinatal and pediatric nursing, mental and family health. Nursing assessments and care are applied to client scenarios. An emphasis is placed on fostering safe and responsive nursing care.

  • Hours: 56
  • Credits: 4
  • Pre-Requisites: FPLT72010 AND NURS72030 AND NURS72040 AND PHAR72000
  • CoRequisites:

Relational and Contemplative Practice
NURS73030

Description:

In this course, learners will thoroughly examine the practices self-compassion, relational inquiry, and cultural humility in the context of mental wellness. Learners will have the opportunity to develop strategies for self-awareness, life-long learning, and fostering healthy relationships. Mental health conditions, assessments, and treatments are examined. Strategies to support mental wellness including creating safe and therapeutic environments of care are explored.

  • Hours: 42
  • Credits: 3
  • Pre-Requisites: NURS72050 AND PSYC71240
  • CoRequisites:

Applied Statistics
STAT73100

Description: This course introduces students to the basic concepts, logic, and issues involved in statistical reasoning. Major topics include descriptive statistics, probability, statistical inference, regression and correlation. The objectives of this course are to give students confidence in manipulating and drawing conclusions from data and provide them with a critical framework for evaluating study designs and results.
  • Hours: 42
  • Credits: 3
  • Pre-Requisites: NURS72050 OR RSCH73000
  • CoRequisites:

Level 6

Course details

Professional Nursing Practice 4: Knowledge in the Clinical Setting
FPLT73030

Description:

Learners will have the opportunity to apply their nursing knowledge, skills, judgement, and attitudes in a clinical setting. Learners are expected to demonstrate competency in the assessment of various sources of knowledge and to apply these data to clinical care scenarios.

  • Hours: 86
  • Credits: 3
  • Pre-Requisites: FPLT72010 AND NURS72030 AND NURS72040 AND OHS71320 AND PHAR72000
  • CoRequisites:

Nursing Care 4: Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Management
NURS73040

Description:

In this course learners will apply various types of knowledge including nursing standards and pathophysiology to plan care for clients with complex health conditions. Using care scenarios learners will apply their nursing knowledge, skills, judgement, and attitudes to plan care in changing health care contexts.

  • Hours: 42
  • Credits: 3
  • Pre-Requisites: FPLT72010 AND NURS72030 AND NURS72040 AND PHAR72000
  • CoRequisites:

The Social and Spatial Construction of Health
NURS73050

Description:

In this course, learners have the opportunity to explore how health and access to health care is shaped by social and spatial structures. A strengths-based approach to understanding health equity and social justice is applied to various care scenarios. Learners will examine how relationships between people and their environments shape health and wellbeing.

  • Hours: 42
  • Credits: 3
  • Pre-Requisites:
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Nursing Care 5: Health Promotion and Community Care
NURS73060

Description:

Learners are introduced to care in the community and to public health nursing. Settings explored might include, rural, remote, northern or global environments. Emergency preparedness and disaster management are explored. Learners will build relational, collaborative, and health teaching skills throughout various learning activities.

  • Hours: 42
  • Credits: 3
  • Pre-Requisites: FPLT72010 AND NURS72030 AND NURS72040 AND PHAR72000
  • CoRequisites:
Electives: Interdisciplinary Elective
Student must pass 1 Course(s), selected in the Student Portal from available course options

Level 7

Course details

Professional Nursing Practice 5: Concepts of Safe Care
FPLT74010

Description:

In this professional practice placement course, learners will engage in professional nursing practice in a healthcare setting, complimented by additional learning activities. Learners have the opportunity to integrate their theoretical and practical nursing knowledge in the provision of client care. Learners will further their leadership skills through demonstrating the role of the nurse in providing safe care while developing healthy work environments.

  • Hours: 328
  • Credits: 11
  • Pre-Requisites: FPLT73020 AND FPLT73030 AND NURS73010 AND NURS73040 AND NURS73060
  • CoRequisites:

Nursing Scholarship
NURS74000

Description:

In this work integrated learning course, learners have the opportunity to experience various elements of scholarship. Learners will participate in varied stages of current scholarship, which may include quality improvement projects or research activities. In addition, all learners will have the opportunities participate in a peer-review process.

  • Hours: 28
  • Credits: 2
  • Pre-Requisites: NURS73000 AND STAT73100
  • CoRequisites:

Nursing Leadership 1: Healthy Workplaces and Collaborative Care
NURS74010

Description:

Learners are introduced to organizational culture and various models of nursing and healthcare leadership. Concepts explored included fostering healthy professional relationships in interprofessional settings and supporting safe workplaces.An emphasis is placed on how research and technology can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of health care systems.

  • Hours: 28
  • Credits: 2
  • Pre-Requisites: FPLT73020 AND NURS73010 AND NURS73040 AND NURS73060
  • CoRequisites:
Electives: Interdisciplinary Elective
Student must pass 1 Course(s), selected in the Student Portal from available course options

Level 8

Course details

Professional Nursing Practice 6: Relational Practice
FPLT74020

Description:

Learners will engage in professional practice hours to strengthen their nursing knowledge and practice. Learners will continue have opportunities to apply clinical judgment, evidence-informed practice apply relational inquiry through interactions with the client and the circle of care.

  • Hours: 388
  • Credits: 13
  • Pre-Requisites: FPLT73020 AND FPLT73030 AND NURS73010 AND NURS73040 AND NURS73060
  • CoRequisites:

Nursing Leadership 2: Quality Care
NURS74020

Description:

Learners will explore the various care delivery strategies that support innovative and effective care. This course will continue to build upon the learner's understanding of foundational concepts of leadership, management, and quality improvement.

  • Hours: 42
  • Credits: 3
  • Pre-Requisites: FPLT73020 AND FPLT73030 AND NURS73010 AND NURS73040 AND NURS73060
  • CoRequisites:

Program outcomes

  1. Analyze and prioritize needs of individuals, families, communities and populations across the continuum of health and illness using a systematic and comprehensive approach to data collection and interpretation.
  2. Plan, implement and evaluate responsive care across diverse settings that integrates evidence-informed knowledge from nursing practice, human physiology, pathophysiology, pharmacology, environmental and behavioural sciences, and social sciences.
  3. Respond safely and competently to changing client health status and complex work environments.
  4. Analyze the social and spatial construction of health as an approach to reducing health disparities.
  5. Analyze how resources, policies, geography and culture shape the different dimensions of health, health planning and place-based care.
  6. Critically appraise research and other forms of information and incorporate into nursing practice.
  7. Develop communication skills including the use of technology that support relational practice and the accurate sharing of health information.
  8. Collaborate with the health care team within and external to the practice setting to deliver coordinated client care.
  9. Establish healthy relationships to support the development of personal and professional resiliency and compassionate care.
  10. Demonstrate behaviours that reflect the responsibility, accountability, integrity and ethical expectations of the nursing profession.
  11. Develop strategies for critical inquiry, ongoing learning, professional growth, self awareness, self-regulation and contemplative practice.
  12. Apply leadership skills to organize the work environment, manage resources, delegate care, support quality improvement, and resolve workplace issues.