Bachelor of Science in Nursing (Collaborative Nursing Degree) Centennial College - Morningside Campus, Canada

Centennial College's Bachelor of Science Nursing is offered in partnership with Toronto Metropolitan University and George Brown College. To complete this degree program, you'll spend your first two years at Centennial and the final two years at Toronto Metropolitan University.

The goal of this Nursing program is to help you become a nursing leader who is highly competent, knowledgeable and committed to playing an integral role in shaping the future of health care.

The curriculum, taught by faculty members from both the college and university, has five themes that will be reflected in all program years at varying levels. These themes are:

• Primary health care/health promotion
• Reflective practice/critical thinking
• Meaningful relationships/caring/communication
• Political/social justice
• Personal/professional development

You'll be required to complete professionally-related courses in areas such as anatomy and physiology, psychology and microbiology. Also included in Nursing (BScN) will be a series of required and elective courses, selected from other disciplines, to enhance and support the broad knowledge base required of professional nurses.

At Centennial's Morningside Campus, you'll benefit from small classes, state-of-the-art simulated clinical facilities and individualized attention.

When you complete this offering, you'll be prepared to work with persons and communities of diverse backgrounds, ages, and degrees of health and illness, in a variety of contexts.

Program Highlights

• Student support services including peer tutoring will help you to fulfill your potential.
• Starting in the first semester of the Nursing (BScN) program, opportunity will exist for small group instruction in clinical and laboratory settings.
• State-of-the-art nursing labs outfitted with highly realistic computerized "patients" will be available. These labs recreate a hospital floor with a nursing station and operating room facilities.
• When engaging in complexand highly realistic patient care scenarios, you'll get teamed up with front-line professionals.
• You'll partake in hands-on application in a clinical simulation facility where the School of Community and Health Studies hosts large-scale disaster simulation exercises involving major health care services from around the city and beyond.
• The experienced and caring faculty members are professionals with years of expertise.
• Clinical placement will give you the advantage of being able to network and make employment contacts.
• Simulations offered to provide students with unique opportunities to develop strong clinical skills.