Nursing Education in Southern Alberta (NESA) students practice skills in a nursing lab.

By Connor Gunn

Nursing program collaboration updated to meet health needs

Oct 22, 2020 | 1:03 PM

LETHBRIDGE, AB– The University of Lethbridge and the Lethbridge College are updating their curriculum to deliver a collaborative Nursing program.

This new Nursing Education in Southwestern Alberta (NESA) program is a four-year Bachelor of Nursing degree program has been modified to meet the needs of the changing times.

The innovative and collaborative nursing education program has undergone an in-depth review and overhaul of its curriculum to ensure it is best meeting the contemporary needs of Canadians.

A new curriculum has been created for the collaborative program and is the result of more than four years of consultations, planning, and development.

This new curriculum has changed to suit the needs of what the current world is going through (Pandemic).

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In the NESA Bachelor of Nursing program, students take their first two years of studies through Lethbridge College and their second two years at the U of L.

Students will succeed and be ready to contribute to the health-care system immediately after graduation.

“This new curriculum represents a new philosophy in both education and nursing that focuses on relationships,” says Debra Bardock, Dean of Lethbridge College’s Centre for Health and Wellness.

“Nursing is all about relational practices, and this curriculum has been designed with those same principles in mind. We believe the skills that create successful nurses also create successful students, and this curriculum will leave them better prepared to enter the health care sector.”

Students will graduate with all of the required outcomes of entry-level nurses by the College and Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta, and be eligible to write the national nursing exam.

Once passing the national nursing exam, graduates will be prepared to contribute to the health of Canadians as Registered Nurses.

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