Our Story
The University of Calgary’s Faculty of Nursing is renowned in Canada for its excellence in clinical practice and family health care. Our nursing students in Qatar are educated to the same Canadian standards and receive the same credentials as students at the Calgary campus.
UCQ is at the forefront of health promotion and disease prevention in Qatar. We engage individuals, families and communities in activities designed to enhance family capacity to attain and improve health.
Our nursing students and graduates practice in the community, in primary health centres, in clinics and schools in addition to acute care hospitals. Our program exemplifies a vision of modern nursing that develops graduates who deliver evidence-based health care and are strong critical thinkers and change agents, whose focus is the entire family.
Bachelor of Nursing, Regular Track program
- UCQ offers a Conceptual and competency-based curriculum that represents major components of knowledge, theoretical constructions, and organizational tools for thinking about nursing.
- A concept-based & competency-based curriculum refers to the use of concepts as an organizing framework for curriculum & courses & the use of competences to measure knowledge, judgment, skills and attributes (attitudes, values, and beliefs) expected of graduates relevant to those concepts
- Our curriculum supports best practice pedagogies and clinical practice experiences
- Integrated curriculums focus on making connections for students by connecting different concepts in different areas of practice, with different populations across the lifespan & who are experiencing varying degrees of wellness, health, & illness or injury by using exemplars
