The School of Nursing, BScN program, is seeking sessional faculty for the Fall 2025 semester. Courses are scheduled from September 9 to December 11, 2026, with an additional week for practice course evaluations and an exam period for theory courses.
Positions are available in:
(YEAR 1) NURS1700 - Professionalism and Leadership 1: Introduction to the Profession of Nursing - This course is an introduction to the profession of nursing. Students are introduced to the curriculum's foundational perspectives and concepts and how these relate to nursing practice. Students explore nursing history, the evolution of nursing, and the health care system. Students will explore their individual and professional values and beliefs to develop their professional nursing self-concept. Students critically reflect on the role of gender, race, and class in the social construction of nursing as a profession, explore their responsibility for safe and ethical nursing practice, and discover the governing bodies that regulate nursing.
(YEAR 2) NURS2740 - Nursing Practice 3: Promoting Health and Healing - In this nursing practice experience, students will develop caring relationships with individuals and families to promote health and support understanding of their health and healing processes when experiencing more complex health challenges, both episodic and chronic. Students will have opportunities to practice nursing approaches that accompany this understanding. Students will work with families and individuals in the home and community, in agencies, and in care facilities to incorporate concepts and learning from all the courses in this semester into their nursing practice. The community and society are considered as contextual influences on the promotion of health for the individual and the family. Areas of Practice include Mental Health, Community, med/surg, and Maternity.
(YEAR 3) HLSC3650 - Health Sciences: Pathophysiology - This course builds on concepts introduced in Pathophysiology 1 with an emphasis on complex health alterations. Students will learn about the presentation and pathogenesis of health alterations across the life span. In selected units, diagnostics, epidemiology, epigenetics, nutrition, and environmental impacts will be introduced. Topics will be closely aligned with current nursing practice and connected to concepts in other nursing courses.
(YEAR 3) NURS3730 – Health and Health Promotion 5: Health Transitions - In this course, students continue to expand their understanding of knowledge that nurses use in practice. The focus is on the client's experience of health including people living with chronic and episodic health challenges. This course provides opportunity to incorporate multiple sources of knowledge including pathophysiology into their nursing practice.
(YEAR 3) NURS3740 - Nursing Practice 5: Promoting Health and Healing - This nursing practice experience continues to provide opportunities for students to develop caring relationships with individuals and families experiencing complex health challenges while coming to understand their health and healing processes. Students will have opportunities to practice nursing approaches that accompany this understanding. Students work with families and individuals in the home and community, in agencies, and in care facilities to incorporate concepts and learning from all the courses in this semester into their nursing practice. Areas of Practice include Acute med/surg.
(YEAR 4) NURS4380 - Nursing Practice 7:Promoting Health and Healing in Complexity - This nursing practice experience continues to provide opportunities for students to develop caring relationships with individuals and families experiencing complex health challenges while coming to understand their health and healing processes. Students will have opportunities to practice nursing approaches that accompany this understanding. Students work with families and individuals in the home and community, in agencies, and in care facilities to incorporate concepts and learning from all the courses in this semester into their nursing practice.
(YEAR 4) HLSC4650 - Health Sciences: Pathophysiology 3 - This course builds on the concepts introduced in Pathophysiology 1 with an emphasis on complex health alterations. Students will learn about the presentation and pathogenesis of health alterations across the lifespan. In selected units, diagnostics, epidemiology, epigenetics, nutrition, and environmental impacts will be explored. Topics will be closely aligned with current nursing practice and connected to concepts in other nursing courses.
