Be at the heart of health-care change
You care about people’s health and want to share in their most significant moments from the delivery of their children to life-saving surgery. You crave a career that allows you the flexibility to work anywhere in the world with the option to specialize in an area of fascination like forensics or critical care. If you reap rewards from comforting people, if you thrive on constant challenge and learning, then a career as a registered nurse may be for you.
A city of opportunity
Your choice to complete a nursing degree in downtown Toronto is a smart one. Consider this: Toronto is home to 140,000 of Canada’s 1.5 million health-care jobs. You can’t help but benefit from access to a huge number of nursing training and job opportunities in the heart of Canada’s largest city.
Nurses and patient-centred care
Now is an exciting time to be in the health-care field, not only because nurses are in huge demand and will continue to be, but also because of the recent shift to patient-centred care. Exactly as it sounds, this new way of delivering care to patients places their needs and those of their family, front and centre. As a nurse, you will be a big part of this shift.
The move to collaborative care
George Brown was one of the first college’s to structure its curriculum around inter-professional learning. This is a bringing together of all of the professions that interact in the real word, like social workers, nutritionists, nurses etc., under one roof, for enhanced collaboration and to model the future, holistic approach to patient care.
George Brown will prepare you for the new realities of inter-professional collaboration through its facilities, which closely mirror the real world. For example, our Interprofessional Learning Clinic is an actual clinic where students work together to develop innovative strategies and projects to keep clients and the community healthy. Click here to learn more about the Interprofessional Learning Clinic.
Our Simulated Practice Center is designed to mimic an acute in-patient setting with a critical care unit, operating room and a step down unit as well as a separate “home apartment”. Click here to learn more about the Simulated Practice Centre.
Your field placements in hospitals, long-term care settings and health clubs—just to name a few—will round out your practical inter-professional learning.
New Waterfront Campus
Over the next few years, George Brown College will be adding a third main campus, introducing an innovative health sciences education learning centre at a stunning new site on the waterfront. Where better to learn about health promotion?
Construction of the campus site is now well underway. Visit www.georgebrown.ca/waterfront for a live view of its progress.
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