Honours Bachelor of Science – Nursing

Graduates of the BScN degree program will:

• Be accountable to the public and the profession by abiding to the profession’s legal, ethical and practice standards.
• Provide competent, ethical, compassionate, and evidence informed client-centred care to individuals, families, communities and diverse populations.
• Synthesize knowledge from nursing and other disciplines to provide safe and coordinated care using critical thinking, problem solving and clinical reasoning in a variety of settings.
• Utilize health promotion, harm reduction, disease prevention and illness management strategies with clients to support optimal health outcomes.
• Establish collaborative professional relationships within nursing, the interprofessional team, and other community partners.
• Communicate with individuals, families and communities using therapeutic and relational practices.
• Integrate concepts of empowerment, social advocacy, and social justice in providing client care to individuals, families and communities to reduce health inequities and disparities.
• Advocate for and support culturally safe environments where clients are respected for their health care practices and decisions.
• Use nursing informatics to inform care and improve the health of clients.
• Engage in scholarship through critical inquiry, continuous quality improvement, and through the support of research to enhance professional practice.
• Demonstrate leadership and a commitment to lifelong learning.

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