Chronology of the Development of UVic School of Nursing Programs

Compiled by Margaret Scaia, RN, BScN, MN, PhD and Lynne Young, RN, PhD

1976 UVic SON opens offering an on-campus program to Registered Nurses pursuing a baccalaureate degree

1980 UVic SON offers a distance degree completion program for Registered Nurses

1988 UVic SON held a workshop to explore the possibility of offering a collaborative baccalaureate curriculum

1989 Collaboration begins between UVIC SON and Camosun, Caribou, Malaspina, and Okanagan Colleges to offer a generic baccalaureate degree within a shared curriculum

1991 Multidisciplinary Master’s Program commenced

1992 North Island College and Langara College join the collaboration

1993 Selkirk College joins the collaboration

1994 Kwantlen and Douglas Colleges join the collaboration

1996 The UVic SON opens a campus on the Lower Mainland of BC to enable students from Langara, Douglas, and Kwantlen Colleges to receive a baccalaureate degree without traveling to study in Victoria

2003 UVic SON offers a Master’s in Nursing degree. Multidisciplinary Master’s Program collaboration ends for the School of Nursing

2004 CNPBC dissolves, Collaboration for Academic Education in Nursing (CAEN) commences

2005 UVic SON offers a PhD in nursing program

2007 UVic SON Lower Mainland campus closes

2010 UVic SON offers the MN Double Degree – Nursing and Health Information Sciences

From the 2013 Fall Communiqué — History of Nursing