New, Tech-Forward Nursing Program
Carleton University, in partnership with Queensway Carleton Hospital (QCH), have launched a brand new, tech-forward nursing program. It is the first new Bachelor of Science in Nursing program to come out of an established Ontario university in over 20 years. This innovative partnership will transform nursing education and play a key role in helping to address nursing shortages across the province.
What makes the program unique?
- The three-year compressed program gets nurses to the workforce one year faster than other programs.
- Nurses will get early (in the first semester) and frequent internships or clinical practicums.
- It's the first program to incorporate registered nurse prescribing into its undergrad degree.
- The curriculum is Indigenous built, embedding Indigenous ways of knowing and incorporating them into practice.
- Nursing graduates provided input based on their recent experiences in school.
- Nurses will be equipped with mental health training to take care of themselves and their patients.
- It’s empowering nurses to inform how technology is built through a concentration in data science.
- It’s using AI and Simulation Manikins to give nurses hands-on tech experience.
About the partnership:
- Born from a “what if” discussion and grounded in the reality of what QCH is seeing today on the front line, and what the healthcare system will most need in the future.
- Queensway Carleton Hospital and Carleton University worked together on program conceptualization, curriculum development and work placements, with valuable input from recent nursing graduates.
- As a healthcare institution, QCH provided unique insight to ensure the curriculum was modernized to meet current and future on-the-job challenges of nursing in Ontario.
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