Honours Bachelor of Science - Nursing (Fast track) (BSNF)

Graduates of the BSNF program will earn a BScN credential and will:

• Be accountable to the public and the profession by abiding to the profession’s legal, ethical and practice standards.

• Provide competent, ethical, compassionate, and evidence informed client-centred care to individuals, families, communities and diverse populations.

• Synthesize knowledge from nursing and other disciplines to provide safe and coordinated care using critical thinking, problem solving and clinical reasoning in a variety of settings. 

• Utilize health promotion, harm reduction, disease prevention and illness management strategies with clients to support optimal health outcomes.

• Establish collaborative professional relationships within nursing, the interprofessional team, and other community partners.

• Communicate with individuals, families and communities using therapeutic and relational practices.

• Integrate concepts of empowerment, social advocacy, and social justice in providing client care to individuals, families and communities to reduce health inequities and disparities. 

• Advocate for and support culturally safe environments where clients are respected for their health care practices and decisions.

• Use nursing informatics to inform care and improve the health of clients.

• Engage in scholarship through critical inquiry, continuous quality improvement, and through the support of research to enhance professional practice.

• Demonstrate leadership and a commitment to lifelong learning. 

To be eligible for clinical practicum placements, students must have a completed Clinical Preparedness Permit which includes:

• current immunization records as outlined in the Canadian Immunization Guide for health-care workers
• bloodwork for immune status of hepatitis B/varicella/measles/mumps and rubella
• TB testing/CXR as required

• A current Basic Life Support Certificate renewed annually
• Standard First Aid valid for four years
• Online courses are not acceptable
• Record of mask fit test, renewed every two years
• Criminal Record Check and Vulnerable Sector Screening (annually)

• Clinical practicum placements are in a variety of agencies in the greater Toronto area. Students are required to provide their own transportation to practicum placements. Placements may be six-, 10- or 12-hour days starting as early as 6 a.m. and may include weekends and evenings.

Students in the Honours Bachelor of Science – Nursing program are required to provide a current criminal record check and vulnerable sector screening from a recognized police service before they are permitted to start their clinical/practicum or work placement. Individuals who have been charged or convicted criminally and not yet pardoned, will be prohibited from proceeding to a clinical/practicum or work placement. A student with an outstanding charge or who has been convicted of a criminal offence and has not obtained a full pardon will be counselled to withdraw from the program as a successful practicum placement is a requirement to progress through the program.
 

Ontario baccalaureate programs in Nursing are responsible to the public for providing their enrolled students with opportunities to develop the qualifications (academic knowledge, professional behaviours, attitudes and clinical skills) to enter the profession of Registered Nursing in Ontario. 

The description of the essential requirements is included in the Requisite Skills and Abilities document from the College of Nurses of Ontario. 

This document is not intended to exclude individuals who may require reasonable accommodation to achieve competency development. It is advisable to discuss such accommodations and/or learning supports with the Counselling & Accessible Learning Services during the pre-admission or admission phase.