Upon completion of the regular BN program, the graduate will be able to:
- Practice in a variety of settings including health care agencies/institutions, the home and the community
- Consider factors influencing health and illness
- Use knowledge, critical thinking and clinical skills for making sound judgments and providing competent care
- Act in promoting health, disease prevention, and care for individuals with acute, long-term, and anticipated terminal illnesses
- Communicate effectively and develop professional relationships with clients
- Practice with cultural awareness and sensitivity to the influences of racial and ethnic diversity in health
- Participate in the advancement of nursing practice through research
- Possess leadership abilities and organizational skills that make an effective contribution as a member of the health care team
- Integrate changing technologies into health care
- Be committed to the pursuit of knowledge, lifelong learning and professional development
- Have a professional sense of social responsibility and be an active participant in influencing health, health care policy, and reform
Upon completion of the Post-Diploma Bachelor of Nursing program, the graduate will be able to:
- Synthesize concepts from the humanities, natural sciences and social sciences with nursing knowledge in the practice of nursing
- Demonstrate caring in nursing practice
- Apply the nursing process based upon conceptual frameworks of nursing
- Provide nursing care throughout the life cycles of individuals, families, groups and communities
- Demonstrate independent, interdependent and collaborative roles in the practice of nursing to promote, maintain and restore health of individuals, families, groups and communities, and when life is no longer sustainable, to assist in coping with the dying process
- Demonstrate accountability for the professional practice of nursing within current legal, ethical and professional standards
- Apply research findings in the practice and for the advancement of nursing
- Accept responsibility for self-directed, continuous professional development
Upon completion of the Diploma in Nursing program, the graduate will be able to:
- Provide direct patient care in acute care hospital units
- Enter the Bachelor of Nursing Post-Diploma program
Upon completion of the Foundation Program, students will transition directly into the Bachelor of Nursing degree program or the Diploma in Nursing program (see objectives above).