Nursing (Baccalaureate of Science)

Admissions

High School and Adult Basic Education Applicants

If you are applying using high school-level and/or Adult Basic Education (ABE) courses, you will need to submit proof that you meet the following admission requirements.

For information about applying or admission requirements, please contact Admissions.

BC/Yukon high school students are eligible to apply in their Grade 12 year. GPA will be initially calculated on interim grades to determine provisional qualification.

Note: GPA for competitive entry ranking will be calculated on the four Grade 12 courses or ABE alternatives listed below

University Transfer Applicants

To meet the admission requirements, you can still use your high school/ABE courses as listed on the previous tab or you can use the following courses to meet the subject requirements.

For information about applying or admission requirements, please contact Admissions.

Notes:

• After the January 31 document/transcript deadline, no in-progress course work can be used towards admission requirements (exceptions for current BC/Yukon high school students).
• The program will maintain a short waitlist for entry into the same year, pending withdrawals or deferrals. In extenuating circumstances an invited applicant may apply for a one year deferral. The waitlist will not be retained for future years. Those applicants meeting the academic requirements, but not gaining a seat in the year of application will need to reapply and resubmit academic information already provided.
• Students who are not in good standing at Camosun or UVic, or in a healthcare program at another institution are ineligible to apply.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of Term 5 of the BSN program, the learner will be able to:

• Demonstrate a high-level of professionalism in diverse health care settings, including acute, residential, and specialty areas.
  • Demonstrate accountability for their own actions, decisions, and conduct as student nurse, within legislated scope of practice.
  • Consistently evaluate and make decisions based on an understanding of the significance of fitness to practice in the context of nursing practice, self-regulation, and public protection.
  • Perform practices consistent with the Canadian Code of Ethics (2009), with compassionate and culturally safe care.
  • Use professional judgment, ethical reasoning, and clinical reasoning, for decision making.
• Utilize a knowledge base from nursing and other disciplines to provide nursing care (assessment, diagnosis, therapeutic interventions, and evaluation of client/patient response) in the context of physiological, emotional, and cognitive needs, across the lifespan from birth, care of neonate, to the end-of-life and palliative care.
  • Recognize, prioritize, provide timely nursing care, and seek immediate assistance in rapidly changing or complex situations.
  • Consistently utilize knowledge base in the health sciences including pathophysiology, psychopathology, pharmacology and microbiology, genetics, immunology, and nutrition.
  • Develop client/patient care plans using an evidence-informed, humanistic knowledge based while negotiating priorities of care with clients.
  • Modify and individualize client care based on the emerging priorities of the health situation, in collaboration with clients and other members of the health care team.
• Use principles of social justice, primary health care, and the social determinants of health to promote health and wellbeing in nursing practice.
• Apply knowledge of colonization, and its impact on Indigenous peoples’ health and wellness, by recognizing principles of Indigenous self-determination as a reconciling approach.
• Apply quality improvement and patient safety principles in an evidence-informed practice to prevent harm to clients, self, health care team, other workers and the public.
• Use nursing informatics, information and communication technologies (ICTs) to support information collection and synthesis in accordance with professional and regulatory standards in the delivery of care.
• Promote collaborative interdisciplinary relationships within the health care team to provide high-quality, person-centered care in a timely manner.
• Practice in partnership with clients by engaging in interprofessional collaboration through role clarification, effective interprofessional communication, conflict resolution, and leadership. 
• Practice professionally appropriate, effective communication with clients, families, groups, and members of the health care team.

Curriculum

• Students considering transfer to a collaborative BC college or university should consider an additional English elective which may be necessary in order to meet graduating requirements of that institution. (Consult that institution’s calendar for program requirements.)
• Year 3 and 4 at University of Victoria
• 6th, 7th, and 8th Semester:  See UVic calendar for program outline and course descriptions.

Program Participation Requirements

• Students must provide evidence they do not have active TB. Acceptable evidence is a negative TB skin test or a negative chest x-ray. Evidence must be dated no more than six months before the program start date. Students are responsible for the cost of testing. An additional TB test is required after each possible exposure to TB and/or travel within an area where there is a known prevalence of TB.
• Students must provide evidence of their immunization status. Students are highly recommended to maintain current immunizations as per the Practice Education Guidelines of B.C. Recommended immunizations are found on the Health Sciences Placement Network of Canada website by searching for immunization guidelines.
  • Failure to comply with immunization guidelines could result in the health care organization or the College barring the individual from the clinical/practicum setting until proof of immunity is provided and/or until a communicable disease outbreak is declared over. This could impact a student’s ability to successfully complete the clinical/practicum placement and/or a clinical/community rotation.
• Students are required to submit Standard First Aid and Basic Life Support, including the airway management and oxygen therapy courses (BLS add-on courses) prior to the first semester of the program. Basic Life Support must be renewed yearly while in the program.
• Students are required to have yearly respirator mask “fit-testing” done. Fitting will be completed in the program and students will be responsible for completing this process prior to the patient contact in a clinical setting and clinical experience and for any associated costs.
• Criminal Record Check is required.
• The Provincial Practice Education Guidelines require students to complete the BC Provincial Violence Prevention Training prior to clinical/practicum placements. This training will occur during the program. Students will be notified in sufficient time for the training to occur and this training will be provided by a third party. Students will be responsible for any associated costs. Failure to comply with this training could result in the health care organization, community partner or the college barring the individual from the clinical/practicum setting until required training is completed. This could impact a student’s ability to successfully complete the clinical/practicum placement. Violence prevention training from other provinces does not transfer in and meet the requirements.

Program Completion Requirements

• Students must complete each course in the program with a “C” grade minimum, and obtain a cumulative GPA of 3.0 (“C+”) to transfer to the University of Victoria. UVIC includes repeated and failed courses in the GPA calculation for all required courses, including the required English and elective courses.
• The Baccalaureate degree must be completed within seven years of commencement of the program.

Additional Information

• 2.5 years are completed at Camosun and then the student will transfer to UVic for the final 1.5 years to obtain a BSN.