Bachelor of Science in Nursing (Honours) (Pembroke) - Accelerated

The four-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing (Honours) (BScN) program, offered in an accelerated delivery format over three years and four months, prepares the next generation of nurses to offer high quality nursing care and assume leadership roles within the health care system. It provides a solid theoretical foundation to enable you to engage with clients in activities that promote health, prevent illness and injury and foster optimal recovery from or adaptation to illness or injury. By leveraging evidence-based teaching strategies, interprofessional education and innovative simulation technology, the program prepares graduates to meet the College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO) entry-to-practice competencies while addressing the growing demand for nurses across diverse healthcare settings.

In this program, you form foundational to complex knowledge and experience in preparation for entry into the nursing profession. You learn in academic classrooms, applied nursing skills laboratories and simulation laboratories and you also engage with patientsclientsresidents in a range of clinical settings from hospital and long-term care to home and community. The focus of care may be with individual patientsclientsresidents and may include families, communities and partners; clients may also be a community or a population. The program integrates multiple ways of knowing, including Indigenous Knowledge systems, evidence-informed practice and intrainterprofessional collaboration. You strengthen your knowledge, skills and confidence related to cultural humility and the impact of person-centered care.

Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) or equivalent.

Mature students are applicants who have not achieved the Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) or its equivalent and who are at least 19 years of age on or before the commencement of the program in which they intend to enroll.