Collaboration Nursing Profession

Course code NURS 2161

Credit 2.0

Length 30.0 hours

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This course focuses on the nurse's professional role as a leader in health care organizations to promote quality practice environments. Emphasis is on professional relational skills required to enhance a healthy workplace culture within the context of acute care.

Prerequisites

NURS 1260, NURS 1261, NURS 1262, NURS 1263, NURS 1264, NURS 1370.

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What you will learn

  • - Nursing Image, Identity and Professional Formation
    - Nursing as a Regulated Profession
    - All Nursing is Cultural and Contextual, Promoting Cultural Safety
    - Change Theory: Improving the Quality of Patient Care
    - Legal-ethical issues and dilemmas in acute care
    - Nursing leadership in promoting quality practice environments
    - Inter-professional Collaboration
    - Leader and Group Communication Team Building
    - Organizational Structures

How to register

This course is offered as part of a VCC program only.

Course schedules

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CRN# Duration Delivery Location
60637 June 24, 2026
to September 23, 2026
Lecture VCC Broadway Building B See full schedule

Online courses listed without scheduled meeting times can be completed on your own schedule.

Contact us

If you have any question, please email at advising@vcc.ca.

† This information is intended as a guideline only. Program and course details are subject to change with the approval of VCC's Board of Governors.

Indigenous Territory Acknowledgment

VCC is located on the traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples, and we acknowledge our privilege to be here.