Your nursing education can take you in any direction you dare to dream. Will a career in research be your niche? Nurse scientists are leading some cutting edge projects. Do you want to travel? Nursing skills are needed all over the world. Your limit is your imagination and the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Nursing wants to imagine with you!
We know you have a lot of choices for your nursing education. Here are a few reasons to consider the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Nursing:
- A new undergraduate curriculum, designed to guide you seamlessly through your nursing education
- Our Clinical Simulation Learning Centre where you can practice your skills on humanlike manneqins in a safe environment
- A gerontological community partnership where you work collaboratively with older adults and their caregivers
- Choices for your nursing future – Master’s, Nurse Practitioner, PhD and post doctoral
- Our Clinical Teaching Collaborative program that allows practicing nurses to positively impact students while furthering their graduate education
- One-on-one undergraduate and graduate student advising
- A community of instructors, staff and students who are engaged and commited to excellence in education, research and leadership
- Multiple scholarship and bursary opportunities
Your career success as a competent and confident nurse is our goal; we want you to be as excited about nursing as we are!
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Are you a high school student interested in our four-year program? Are you a transfer student interested in our 28-month program? Are you a current degree holder interested in our 24-month program? (Undergraduate Program) |
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Are you a RN ready to move on to advanced practice roles? (Graduate Program) |
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Technology is transforming nursing classrooms. To give you the confidence and competence you will need as a nurse, our sophisticated simulation models offer interactive learning. Help Noele, our life-size birthing manikin, move through labour and delivery. Inserting an IV requires steady hands so practice on a virtual patient with the comprehensive self-directed system for training intravenous catheterization. Check out our Clinical Simulation Learning Centre. |
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| Make a difference in your local community. As 4th year student Alison George discovered when she worked with the homeless in downtown Calgary, “the noble part of nursing is empowering people to create change.” >> more |  |
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| What about moving farther out into our world to create change globally? Anne-Marie Magny Dusablon’s passion is assisting female refugees. The Master in Nursing student has travelled as far as Mynamar to help women achieve greater self-sufficiency for their children and themselves. >> more |  |
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How people respond to illness, how they live during and after and how they are cared for during sickness – these are the basics for nursing research. Our nursing program excels because of its infusion of research throughout the curriculum. We believe that preparation of excellent nurse clinicians involves the ability to generate and apply knowledge to the discipline and develop skills that come from an understanding of how research informs practice. Here are what how we help our student explore the area of research: |
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