Program Overview

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Overview

The Ingram School of Nursing at McGill University seeks to inspire and challenge its students on their educational journey toward becoming health care professionals. Its approach to teaching is entrenched in the Strengths-Based model, empowering students to develop the strengths that nurses, patients, and families are encouraged to recognize and foster in themselves and others to promote health and facilitate healing.

Program Details

The BSc. Nursing program offers innovative courses that develop fundamental nursing expertise and skills and opens the door to a variety of exciting career opportunities. As the basic preparation for a nursing career, the curriculum extends over three years (including summer sessions) with general and professional courses in each year and equips students with the expertise and confidence to effectively deal with complex and contemporary nursing issues.

Careers

Possible career paths for graduates include:

• Public Health Nurse
• Crisis Intervention nurse
• Critical/Intensive Care Nurse
• Private Duty Nurse
• Acute Care Coordinator
• Surgical Nursing Assistant
• Nursing Consultant

Student Experience

Student involvement is a cornerstone of the program. In addition to classroom lectures, students study in small learning groups of six to eight people, working closely with professors to examine, in critical and creative ways, the many facets of nursing in today’s society. Furthermore, starting with the very first nursing course, students gain hands-on experience and knowledge in a McGill teaching hospital or affiliated centre, where they learn to help people manage health and illness situations.

Courses

As a Nursing student, you can take courses like:

• IPEA 502. Partnership in Interprofessional Teams
• NUR1 529. Critical Care Nursing.
• NUR1 329. Skin Integrity and Wound Care.
• NUR1 311. Infection Prevention and Control.

Possible Minors

Minors that complement this program include:

• Pharmacology
• Chemistry
• Biology
• Kinesiology
• Psychology
• Biomedical Engineering

Related Majors

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• Biology
• Medicine
• Pharmacology
• Microbiology & Immunology
• Dentistry
• Anatomy & Cell Biology