{"id":42938,"date":"2021-03-17T08:29:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T12:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=42938"},"modified":"2021-03-17T08:29:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T12:29:02","slug":"humber-college-launches-its-first-independent-nursing-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/17\/humber-college-launches-its-first-independent-nursing-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"Humber College Launches Its First Independent Nursing Degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Humber College has launched its independent nursing degree, one of the first in the Ontario college sector. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Premier Doug Ford and Ross Romano, Minister of Colleges and Universities, along with Minister Kinga Surma and MPPs Christine Hogarth and Natalia Kusendova, visited Humber\u2019s North Campus today to tour the College\u2019s simulated patient care suites and make the announcement of Humber\u2019s nursing degree. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Humber is a leader in degree education in the Ontario college sector. One quarter of all students enrolled in a degree program at an Ontario college study at Humber. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cWe have a long history of delivering high-quality nursing education and look forward to continuing that tradition by offering one of the first standalone nursing degrees at an Ontario college,\u201d said Chris Whitaker, president and CEO, Humber College. \u201cThis degree will prepare students for healthcare careers through our signature polytechnic mix of career-focused theory and hands-on learning.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">With the new degree, Humber will continue to educate a diverse student population, helping to create a healthcare workforce that mirrors the diversity of Ontario\u2019s population.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cI\u2019m thrilled that Humber College is launching a new program that will give students who are thinking about pursuing a rewarding degree in nursing more access to world-class education right here in Ontario,\u201d said Premier Ford. \u201cThis is a milestone for the Ontario post-secondary sector and a great step forward for healthcare in the province, where qualified professionals are needed more than ever.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Humber will begin teaching the first cohort of Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree students in September 2021. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humber College has launched its independent nursing degree, one of the first in the Ontario college sector. Premier Doug Ford and Ross Romano, Minister of Colleges and Universities, along with Minister Kinga Surma and MPPs Christine Hogarth and Natalia Kusendova, visited Humber\u2019s North Campus today to tour the College\u2019s simulated patient care suites and make &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-provincial"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 02:32:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42939,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42938\/revisions\/42939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}