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Our international reach
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loomberg Nursing’s innovative MN program offers an opportunity for RNs worldwide to obtain the education necessary to become a nurse practitioner (NP). “We’ve had students from every province, as well as from the United States, Bermuda and Nigeria,” says Monica Parry, the coordinator of the MN-NP program. “About 80 students enrol each year.” When Bertrand Bolek, MN 2017, started the program, he was living in Calgary. Coincidentally, there were two other Bloomberg Nursing MN-NP students in Calgary who, like Bolek, were also focusing on adult care. In addition to the online and campus-based components of the two-year, full-time program, there are four three-month clinical placements. Students living outside of Toronto can arrange their placements in their community. Bolek, for example, did one of his clinical placements in the cardiology unit at South Health Campus in Calgary.
› Year 1
Our MN-NP program begins with a one-week residency at Bloomberg Nursing. It’s the first of three weeklong residency periods. “The first residency gave me the opportunity to meet the faculty and my fellow students face-to-face,” says Bolek. It also gave him the chance to buy a blue sweatshirt with the U of T Bertrand Bolek 4 in his U of T hoodie
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