Aurora College


Aurora College recognizes the partners of the Collaboration for Academic Education in Nursing (CAEN) for their help and assistance in developing the course outlines and learning activities used in the curriculum.

The overall purpose of this program is to educate nurses to work with individuals, families, groups and communities in a variety of settings guided by a health promotion perspective with an ethic of caring. The program will assist students to develop sensitivity to people's experiences of health, healing and health promotion by being cognizant of nurse's professional roles. Students will learn to work as partners with clients and other health care providers. Through their understanding of, and participation in, the changing health care system, graduates will be active participants in creating health for all.

Upon completion of the program students will have the knowledge and skills needed to:

1. Practice nursing, with a health promotion perspective and an ethic of caring, within a variety of contexts and with diverse client populations.

2. Be an independent, self-directed, self-motivated, and life-long learner with a questioning mind and a familiarity with inquiry approaches to learning.

3. Be self-reflective, self-evaluative, accountable, and make clinical judgments based on different ways of knowing, including critical thinking, intuition, research and evaluation.

4. Create and influence the future of nursing practice at a political, social, and professional level by responding to and anticipating the changing needs of society.

5. Be prepared to meet the professional practice requirements as identified by the Registered Nurses Association of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut (RNANTNU).

Nursing at Aurora College

Nursing Programs in Northwest Territories