Undergraduate programs
Our nursing program emphasizes the abilities essential to work in the Primary Health Care environment with a variety of opportunities for clinical practice.
By enrolling in the BN program, students have the opportunity to practice in a wide variety of settings locally and provincially, with options for study nationally and internationally.
Five abilities
The program emphasizes five abilities that are essential for working in a Primary Health Care environment.
- Knowledge and its application - using and generating knowledge from nursing integrated with other disciplines, to provide safe and competent nursing care and to achieve the goals of Primary Health Care.
- Communication - communicating effectively with diverse populations to establish therapeutic, professional relationships, to convey accurate and salient information and to achieve safe and competent evidence based interventions in practice.
- Critical thinking/skills of analysis - critically evaluating clinical evidence, situations and practices, and learning how to formulate safe, ethical, and competent nursing interventions with individuals, families and communities.
- Professional identity/ethics - developing skills and predispositions that support socially just and ethically caring nursing practices in complex situations.
- Social justice/effective citizenship - becoming socially responsible professionals and global citizens
A Bachelor of Nursing from UNB qualifies graduates to write the Canadian Registered Nurse Examination (CRNE) presently set by the Canadian Nurses Association.
If you are of Aboriginal descent you might be interested in UNB's Aboriginal Nursing Initiative.
NOTE: The BN/RN program (for Registered Nurses only) is no longer offered on the Fredericton Campus but can still be taken in Saint John
