Program Learning Outcomes and Curriculum
Your program curriculum is designed to ensure graduates acquire the essential skills, knowledge, and attitudes appropriate and relevant to both the needs of students and employers.
Program Vocational Learning Outcomes
Program vocational learning outcomes describe what graduates of the program have demonstrated they can do with the knowledge and skills they have achieved during their studies. The outcomes are closely tied to the needs of the workplace. Through assessment (e.g., assignments and tests), students verify their ability to reliably perform these outcomes before graduating.
The program vocational learning outcomes for this program are:
1. Apply generic skills at a beginning level that will facilitate the practice of nursing, ongoing learning and self-development including:
1 a. Communicating effectively orally and in writing; using interpersonal skills to relate effectively in a variety of situations
1 b. Demonstrate a beginning level of scholarly writing;
1 c. Applying decision-making models which reflect critical thinking and self-reflection 1 d. Accessing knowledge appropriately and using research outcomes
1 e. Utilizing self as a change agent and advocate 1 f. Acquiring basic technological literacy skills
1 g. Understanding self, society, and it’s institutions in order to assume a role as a responsible citizen
2. Practice from a primary health care perspective with a multicultural client population including individuals, families, groups and communities.
3. Provide nursing care to clients in complex health care situations where predictability of outcomes tends to be uncertain.
4. Manage a health care team of varying skill mixes to make appropriate use of resources. Provide safe, effective and ethical nursing care that meets the current College of Nurses of Ontario Professional Standards for Registered Nurse
Essential Employability Skills Outcomes
Essential Employable Skills (EES) are skills that, regardless of a student’s program or discipline, are critical for success in the workplace, in day-to-day living, and for lifelong learning. Graduates will reliably demonstrate abilities in six skill categories:
- Communicate clearly, concisely and correctly in the written, spoken, and visual form that fulfills the purpose and meets the needs of the audience.
- Respond to written, spoken, or visual messages in a manner that ensures effective communication.
- Execute mathematical operations accurately.
- Apply a systematic approach to solve problems.
- Use a variety of thinking skills to anticipate and solve problems.
- Locate, select, organize, and document information using appropriate technology and information systems.
- Analyze, evaluate, and apply relevant information from a variety of sources.
- Show respect for the diverse opinions, values, belief systems, and contributions of others.
- Interact with others in groups or teams in ways that contribute to effective working relationships and the achievement of goals.
- Manage the use of time and other resources to complete projects.
- Take responsibility for one’s own actions, decisions, and consequences
Global Citizenship and Equity Learning Outcomes
There are six Global Citizenship and Equity (GCE) learning outcomes integrated into Diploma and Advanced Diploma programs as a component of Centennial’s Signature Learning Experience (SLE). The SLE reflects the College’s promise to provide students with a distinctive and inclusive educational experience that builds on a foundation of global citizenship, equity, and social justice. Certificate and Graduate Certificates also include at least two GCE learning outcomes. The GCE learning outcomes are:
- Identify one’s role and responsibilities as a global citizen in personal and professional life.
- Identify beliefs, values and behaviours that form individual and community identities and the basis for respectful relationships.
- Analyze issues of equity at the personal, professional, and global level.
- Analyze the use of the world’s resources to achieve sustainability and equitable distribution at the personal, professional, and global level.
- Identify and challenge unjust practices in local and global systems.
- Support personal and social responsibility initiatives at the local, national, and global level.
Global Citizenship and Equity Portfolio
As a component of the SLE, Diploma and Advanced Diploma program students will complete the Global Citizenship and Equity (GCE) Portfolio. Building the GCE Portfolio is a process of documenting your GCE learning. Each item selected for inclusion in the portfolio demonstrates growth and understanding of Global Citizenship and Equity within your program of study.
Students are encouraged to develop their GCE Portfolio beginning in their first semester. You will add artifacts from coursework and accompanying reflections as well as artifacts arising from co-curricular activities, volunteering, etc. to your portfolio as you progress through the program. You are encouraged to use the ePortfolio tools available on eCentennial, as well as to develop an online professional portfolio presence through LinkedIn and/or other personal websites/blogs.
Curriculum Frameworks
Program Completion Requirements
At the beginning of each course, students will be informed regarding the specific requirements of that course and the way in which the learning will be evaluated.
- Final grades reflect the students’ performance on a variety of evaluative methods scheduled throughout the semester.
- A “C” grade is required for satisfactory completion of a course.
- Promotion into the next semester of a program requires a ‘C’ grade in all core courses (not including GNED & ENGL) in the current semester. *
- Clinical application courses will be graded on a pass/fail basis.
- A student who does not successfully complete any one of his/her required courses as scheduled, must contact the Program Coordinator for academic advising prior to registration for the next semester. Please see model routes for prerequisite information.
- Final promotion from a program qualifies the student for a Centennial College Diploma/Certificate. To achieve final promotion a ‘C’ or ‘S’ grade is required in all courses throughout the program.
- Upon successful completion of all program requirements, students in the RPN to BScN Bridging Nursing Program are eligible to apply to the Post-Diploma Nursing Degree Program at Ryerson University, offered by the Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing.
Students must obtain a cumulative grade point average (cGPA) of 3.00 or higher and have no repeated courses or failures on all academic transcripts in order to be eligible to apply to the Ryerson Post Diploma program
