About Us

The Canadian healthcare system has experienced advances in knowledge, treatment, and prevention of disease, as well as a growing commitment to primary health care. The result? Unprecedented growth in the role nurses play in the delivery of healthcare services, and phenomenal professional opportunities.

In response to these changes, nurses now function in a broader spectrum of practice than the traditional hospital environment. In addition to caring for ill patients, nurses provide and co-ordinate care for individuals, families, groups, and communities in a variety of settings. Today's nursing practice encompasses care of the ill, primary healthcare, and health promotion.

• Nurses providing direct care make the difference between life and death, pain and comfort, coping and despair.
  
  
• Nurse researchers perform research that helps nurses and doctors give better, safer, and more effective care.
  
  
• Nurses providing palliative care make the difference between dying in agony and dying in comfort.
  
  
• Nurses engaged in primary health care educate patients and families about how to maintain good health.
  

Our Vision

• Nursing at George Brown will be known for its excellence in the provision of basic nursing education, professional development programs, and skills acquisition.
  
  
• The Centre for Health Sciences will be the preferred provider of entry-level healthcare practitioners to Toronto's academic teaching hospitals and healthcare organizations.
  
  
• The Centre for Health Sciences, Nursing will be the preferred partner of healthcare organizations in the development and delivery of innovative clinical/professional development programs.
  
  
• The Centre for Health Sciences, Nursing will be recognized as a major contributor to the development of healthcare policy congruent with the values of equal access, personal choice, and social responsibility.
  
  
• The Centre for Health Sciences, Nursing will build strong and enduring relationships with nursing and healthcare academia, the healthcare research community, major providers of health services, and nursing and healthcare associations.
  
  
• The Centre for Health Sciences, Nursing will be fiscally viable and will be a quality work environment for its faculty and staff.

There's never been a better time to pursue a rewarding career in nursing! It's estimated that nursing opportunities in the Toronto area alone will grow by almost 40% by 2011.

A Career in Nursing

• Allows you to bring out the best in yourself
• Requires knowledge for sound decision-making, technical competence, and caring compassion
• Is dynamic and constantly changing
• Is challenging and rewarding
• Allows you to share life's most significant moments with people from all walks of life
• Provides flexible and numerous job opportunities locally and internationally
  

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Revised: October 3, 2006