Working in an interdisciplinary context, our graduates are well positioned
as beginning professionals to partner with others to promote excellence
in meeting nursing and emerging health care demands in the twenty-first
century.
Personal Support Worker Program
Personal support workers will be employed
across health care situations within the health team providing a supportive
role to clients and families
to meet their health care needs.
A career in nursing is highly marketable. Nurses work with individuals,
groups, families, and communities representative of
the entire continuum of health and illness across the entire lifespan
from birth to death.
Some of these client populations include newborns,
new parents, school age children, the homeless, the elderly, and the
acute and chronically
ill.
Graduate Success Story
Speaking to a group of first-year Practical Nursing (R.P.N.) students, Julia Phelan is demonstrating the proper way to serve dinner to a blind patient in a hospital. “You want to make sure you that you describe the plate as a clock: your chickpeas are at 12:00, your yoghurt is at 6:00, your chicken is at 3:00, and so on,” she says. [Read the story...]
Julia Phelan
Practical Nursing - S121,
Graduated 2008
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