Program Beliefs & Assumptions

The IEN Program holds to the following beliefs and assumptions:

Our programs are contingent on enthusiastic learners and faculty.

Canadian Nurses use knowledge from nursing and other disciplines, including health and life sciences, to inform their caring practice.

Our program focuses on the leadership of nurses in Canadian healthcare that focuses on the social, economic, physical, and political environments that significantly influence human health and healing through what are commonly called “determinants of health”.

Canadian Nursing practice involves the promotion of health and facilitation of healing through intentional caring-healing relationships with other human beings.

Canadian Nursing practice is grounded in unique disciplinary knowledge that includes multiple ways of knowing, such as empirical, aesthetic, ethical, personal and emancipatory.

Canadian Nursing leadership is very important to the lives of both healthcare professionals but also the entire health care system in Canada. Our healthcare system requires nursing leaders who are energetic, creative and critical thinkers and who are courageous in their pursuit of advocacy and inspiring to their teams!

Varied and diverse participative-learning approaches to teaching/learning support the strengths and learning needs of all learners. A shared learning journey enables each person to find his or her own voice, nourish his or her soul, and embrace lifelong learning.