Teaching and Learning

Increase access to future-focused health-care education 

Empowering our students to initiate changes, to be resourceful in their learning and practice, and to gain wisdom from their experiences so they are prepared for the dynamic landscape of health care 

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OBJECTIVES   

  • Increase the number of graduates guiding transformative change  

  • Anticipate the changing needs of — and expanding programs to adapt to — complex health systems and society    

  • Ensure all students have access to meaningful entrepreneurial/ intrapreneurial opportunities within research, scholarship and practice  

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UCalgary Nursing launches new Indigenous Health Studies course

First-year nursing course NRSG 202 is co-created and co-taught by Dr. Michelle Scott Paul, Dr. Heather Bensler with Lakota Dakota Elder Evelyn Good Striker

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INITIATIVES TO ACCOMPLISH OUR GOAL 

  1. Launch a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BScN) curriculum Fall 2024:   
  • An educational approach supporting the needs of contemporary and future-focused registered nursing practice in areas of scientific advancement  
  • Address current challenges in the previous undergraduate program, including limited engagement for direct-entry (high school) students in their first year   
  • Align UCalgary’s Nursing program with other U15 institutions 
  1. Expand our graduate programs – specifically our graduate certificates and Doctor of Nursing program: 
  • Include opportunities for health-care professionals to develop leadership and entrepreneurial skills (eg. launch a certificate for health-care professionals to develop their own business/clinic; create a streamlined approach for other learning options and internal clinical placements and additional workshops 
  • Increase access for all students to our online certificates (eg. market to international students)  
  1. Increase and diversify our clinical partnerships, including our adjunct base, to promote EDIA (equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility), cultivate cross-agency relationships to generate new possibilities for collaborative placements.
  2. Implement more professional workshops to enhance teaching effectiveness and confidence of new faculty members, including traditional or virtual simulation training .
  3. Develop Health Systems Transformation Initiative (HSTI) to empower nurses as innovators and change agents, enhancing health and health-care delivery, focusing on three key areas: 
  • Mobilize expertise and research for best practice outcomes    
  • Infuse innovations into health and social policy 
  • Develop transdisciplinary, relational leaders who foster creativity in people and practice across research, academic and practice environments
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  1. Explore avenues to incorporate the metaverse (immersive technologies like virtual and augmented reality) into programs and workshops    
  2. Continue development and amplification of our rural, Indigenous, Medicine Hat College partnership
  3. Develop and implement professional development workshops and resources to build teaching capacity and faculty understanding around the Four Elements Indigenous Framework for nursing education:  
  • Air: Self-in-Relation  
  • Fire: Service/Reciprocity  
  • Earth: Relationships to Land  
  • Water: Anti-Indigenous Racism  
  1. Develop a more intense focus on funding opportunities:    
  • Investigate options for student awards/support (such as existing Power in Numbers emergency fund) and accessibility at the undergraduate and graduate level  
  • Provide more award funding for leadership projects and interprofessional projects (eg. hackathons)  
  • Ensure all spaces (eg. simulation, student study areas) are adequately supplied to meet student and teaching needs   

Read UCalgary Nursing's Strategic Plan "Toward Tomorrow"

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