First year courses will cover many of the fundamentals of this professional program. Students are automatically registered into core courses. Electives are not required for first year. Students begin preparing for the clinical practice environment in first year by interviewing people at the GSK Clinical Education Centre (CEC), and by learning health and physical assessment skills at the CEC and in the simulation lab.

First year courses are:

• Professional Relationships
• Nutrition and Health
• Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis
• Health Assessment
• Introduction to Biochemistry
• Introductory Human Anatomy
• Great Works of Philosophy
• Microbiology for Nursing Students
• Principles of Psychology

Brief descriptions of the courses offered can be found in the current Academic Calendar. Course offerings and program requirements are subject to change each year.

Second year continues to cover the fundamentals of nursing. Clinical placements start in second year with students having a two hour lab session and an 8 hour clinical shift each week, both fall and winter terms, in a health care agency.. Students are automatically registered into core courses. One 3.0 credit unit elective course fits into the Winter term of second year.

• Medical-Surgical Nursing I
• Nursing Practicum: Care of Chronic and/or Acutely Ill Adults/Elderly Adults
• Gerontological Nursing
• Pharmacology for Health Sciences
• Nursing Research
• Mammalian Physiology
• Developmental Psychology
• One Elective

Brief descriptions of the courses offered can be found in the current Academic Calendar. Course offerings and program requirements are subject to change each year.

Students are automatically registered into core courses. In third year, every student will have a rotation in children’s, maternity, mental health and medical/surgical areas. There is room for 3 electives (3.0 credit units each) in this year.

• Medical-Surgical Nursing II
• Family-Centred Maternal Child Nursing Care
• Nursing Practicum: Medical-Surgical and Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
• Nursing Practicum: Maternal and Child, Family-Centred Nursing Care
• Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
• 3 Electives

Brief descriptions of the courses offered can be found in the current Academic Calendar. Course offerings and program requirements are subject to change each year.

Students are automatically registered into core courses. The focus of fall term practicum is Community health promotion. In winter term, students complete the final practicum in a health care agency; students can apply to take their final clinical placement anywhere in Canada. The final practicum is 400 hours of clinical practice time. There is room for 1 elective in Fall term.

• 1 Elective
• Concepts of Acute and Critical Illness
• Current Issues in Nursing and Health Care
• Community Health Promotion Theory
• Integrated Practicum
• Practicum in Community Health Promotion
• Management and Leadership in Health Care

Brief descriptions of the courses offered can be found in the current Academic Calendar. Course offerings and program requirements are subject to change each year.