Evaluation of Nurse 180 – Stress and Strategies to Promote Wellbeing

Project Lead: Ranjit K. Dhari, School of Nursing

Project description

With the aim of supporting students at UBC, faculty members from the School of Nursing designed a first-year undergraduate course entitled ‘NURS180: Stress and Strategies to Promote Well Being’. This course introduces “students from any program of study to foundational knowledge related to stress, stressors, resilience, social support, and strategies to foster physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health” (UBC Calendar). The purpose of this project is to understand students’ experience of learning about stress and strategies to promote wellbeing by understanding their perspectives of stress and coping prior to the start of the course, immediately following course completion, and six months post completion.

Research Questions

1). How do students’ stress management practices and coping strategies change during and after their participation in Nurs 180?
2). Which components of the course have the greatest impact on (1) students’ understanding of stress and wellbeing and (2) the practices they engage in to promote wellbeing?
3). What are the experience with the method of delivery?