Faculty of Health Sciences

The Faculty of Health Sciences prepares baccalaureate graduates as beginning practitioners in the Nursing Education in Southwestern Alberta (NESA) programs, Bachelor of Nursing and Bachelor of Nursing After Degree.

The Nursing Programs strive to:
1.    Be leaders in education and in the promotion of innovative nursing practice and scholarship.
2.    Utilize a teaching/learning process that is learner-centered and facilitates life-long learning skills.
3.    Prepare graduates to be caring holistic practitioners who base their nursing practice on sound theoretical knowledge and research evidence.
4.    Promote excellence in clinical practice by developing: clinical decision-making; diagnostic reasoning; interpersonal skills; innovative clinical practice; leadership behaviours; and, technological knowledge and skill among its graduates.
5.    Place special emphasis on issues related to rural, elderly and aboriginal populations.
6.    Encourage the professional development of its diverse faculty as educators, clinicians, researchers and community advocates.
7.    Collaborate with its clinical and community partners.
Specific statements of value and belief about persons; teaching and learning; nursing; and health are available from the program.

Nursing Program Objectives
The Graduate:
1.    Employs complex thinking processes in the practice of nursing.
2.    Is a reflective practitioner and life-long teacher/ learner.
3.    Is a compassionate and caring practitioner.
4.    Is an excellent communicator.
5.    Uses and participates in research as a base for practice.
6.    Bases practice in sound knowledge from the humanities; biological, social and psychological and nursing sciences, including knowledge of the particular health challenges with elderly, rural and aboriginal populations.
7.    Provides excellent nursing service.
8.    Demonstrates commitment to the profession and practice of nursing.