Starting in 2022-2023, active students in this program are eligible to apply for a Perspective Scholarship (Programme de bourses Perspective Québec) valued at $1,500 for every successful term for a maximum total of $9,000.

  • Application Deadline: 
    March 1
  • Program Code: 
    180.A0
  • DEC in: 
    Nursing
  • Certification: 
    Ordre des infirmières et infirmiers du Québec (OIIQ)
  • Program Length: 
    3 years
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Program Brochure

Your meaningful career in nursing starts with a clinical placement during the first semester of the Nursing Program at Dawson College. Throughout the program, you will experience hands-on learning in Dawson’s labs and high-tech simulation rooms and during weekly clinical placements. Students practise their skills on Dawson’s high-fidelity mannequins that breathe and react to interventions. Clinicals and labs are taken as part of a small group (maximum 10 students). By graduation, students have trained in many different aspects of healthcare in acute-care hospitals, long-term CHSLDs, active rehabilitation centres and day care settings. The program culminates with an internship in the final semester, which often leads to a first job in nursing.

I chose to be a nurse because it is satisfying to contribute to the restoration of someone’s health.
— Wedcher R.

FAQ

  • To use the ethics and values of the profession to understand one’s own role
  • To establish professional relationships with patients, peers, colleagues and teachers
  • To deal with social and cultural realities related to healthcare
  • To teach and assist patients in the maintenance and improvement of their health
  • To establish links between pharmacology and a clinical situation
  • To collect and analyse data
  • To plan, implement and evaluate nursing care
  • To intervene with patients requiring medical-surgical, post-natal, psychiatric, geriatric and ambulatory care
  • To use assessment and nursing care procedures
  • To perform nursing tasks: taking blood pressure, preparing medications, doing injections, managing wounds, conducting assessments for newborns, mothers and children
  • To apply emergency measures
  • To intervene with patients of all ages

Graduates are encouraged to continue their studies at the university level. McGill University offers Quebec CEGEP Nursing graduates the two-year Bachelor of Nursing (Integrated) (BNI) Program.

After completing the Dawson Nursing Program and passing the Ordre des infirmières et infirmiers du Québec (OIIQ) license exam, graduates can work in a variety of nursing jobs in hospitals and health centres.

  • Once admitted to the program, students must:
    • complete the O.I.I.Q. nursing student registration application
    • have a clean criminal record check
    • provide proof of a complete immunization record
  • You can complete the program in three or four years
  • There are two pathways (both five years full-time) to Complete a Bachelor’s degree in Nursing in Quebec:
  1. Take a DEC in Nursing at CEGEP (3 years) and then do a Bachelor’s in Nursing (2 years) = 5 years to obtain a BNI
  2. Take a DEC in Science (2 years) and then do a Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing (3 years) = 5 years to obtain a B.Sc.(N)
  • Dawson offers an internship in the final semester. It is 24-32 hours per week and students are paid up to $2,500 for the semester.
  • Dawson partners with the community of Kahnawake for clinical placements and the College is working to add more clinical placements in remote Indigenous communities
  • There is an opportunity to go on a day trip to visit facilities in the Eastern Townships that are recruiting English-speaking nurses
  • After completing the DEC in Nursing, graduates must write the license exam given by the Ordre des infirmières et infirmiers du Québec (OIIQ)
  • Graduates must show proof of French proficiency
  • A Diploma of Secondary Studies (DES) or academic background judged equivalent to the DES
  • Sec IV Environmental Science & Technology or Environmental Science 558-404 or 558-402
  • Sec V Chemistry 551-504
  • Secondary IV enriched Mathematics or Secondary V Mathematics are considered assets
  • Placement at College English 101 (testing may be required)
  • Letter of intent
  • Completion of the science prerequisites within the last 5 years is considered an asset

Academic Information

Course List

The Course List displayed here is for the most recent version of the program only. Current students should always consult their Individualized Education Plan (IEP) on myDawson.

Term 1

Course Number Course Name C - L - H Hrs
Concentration
510-911-DW Basic Drawing 1 - 2 - 2 45 
520-921-DW Art and Design History 2 - 1 - 2 45 
570-161-DW Typography I 1 - 2 - 1 45 
570-162-DW Introduction to Page Layout Software 1 - 2 - 1 45 
570-163-DW Colour and Communication 1 - 2 - 2 45 
570-164-DW Basic Design I 1 - 2 - 2 45 
570-165-DW Introduction to Vector Graphics Software 1 - 2 - 1 45 
General Education
603-101-MQ Introduction to College English 2 - 2 - 4 60 
109-10x-MQ Physical Education 101 or 102    
COM-001-03 Complementary 1 2 - 1 - 3 45 
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Term 2

Course Number Course Name C - L - H Hrs
Concentration
510-921-DW Life and Still Life Drawing 1 - 2 - 2 45 
510-922-DW 3D Foundations 1 - 2 - 2 45 
570-261-DW Typography 2 1 - 2 - 2 45 
570-262-DW Photography for Graphic Design 1 - 2 - 2 45 
570-263-DW Typographic Grid Systems 1 - 2 - 1 45 
570-264-DW Basic Design 2 1 - 2 - 2 45 
570-266-DW Digital Imaging I 1 - 2 - 1 45 
General Education
603-10x-DW English 102 or 103 2 - 2 - 3 60 
109-10x-MQ Physical Education 101 or 102    
602-10x-MQ French Block A 2 - 1 - 3 45 
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Term 3

Course Number Course Name C - L - H Hrs
Concentration
570-361-DW Typographic Explorations 1 - 2 - 2 45 
570-362-DW Photographic Lighting for Graphic Design 1 - 2 - 2 45 
570-363-DW Pictogram and Icon Design 1 - 2 - 1 45 
570-365-DW Illustration Techniques 1 - 2 - 2 45 
570-366-DW Digital Imaging 2 1 - 2 - 2 45 
570-368-DW Visual Communication I 1 - 2 - 1 45 
570-369-DW Print and Web Production Processes 1 - 2 - 1 45 
General Education
603-10x-DW English 102 or 103 2 - 2 - 3 60 
345-101-MQ Knowledge 3 - 1 - 3 60 
109-103-MQ Physical Activity and Autonomy 1 - 1 - 1 30 
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Term 4

Course Number Course Name C - L - H Hrs
Concentration
570-461-DW Semiotics and Visual Communication 1 - 2 - 1 45 
570-462-DW Motion Graphics 1 1 - 2 - 2 45 
570-463-DW Logotype Design 1 - 2 - 1 45 
570-465-DW Explorations in Printed Illustration 1 - 2 - 2 45 
570-466-DW Advertising Design 1 - 2 - 2 45 
570-468-DW Visual Communication 2 1 - 2 - 1 45 
570-469-DW Web Design I 1 - 2 - 1 45 
General Education
603-BXE-DW Applied Themes in English 2 - 2 - 2 60 
345-102-MQ World Views 3 - 0 - 3 45 
602-10x-DW Block B French 2 - 1 - 3 45 
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Term 5

Course Number Course Name C - L - H Hrs
Concentration
570-560-DW 2D and 3D Technical Production for Print 1 - 2 - 1 45 
570-561-DW Professional Graphic Design Practice I 1 - 2 - 1 45 
570-562-DW Motion Graphics 2 1 - 2 - 2 45 
570-563-DW E-book Design 1 - 2 - 2 45 
570-565-DW Explorations in Video Production 1 - 2 - 2 45 
570-566-DW Information Design 1 - 2 - 1 45 
570-568-DW Packaging Design 1 - 2 - 1 45 
570-569-DW Web Design 2 1 - 2 - 1 45 
General Education
COM-002-03 Complementary 2 2 - 1 - 3 45 
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Term 6

Course Number Course Name C - L - H Hrs
Concentration
570-661-DW Professional Graphic Design Practice 2 1 - 2 - 1 45 
570-662-DW Interactive Design and Motion Graphics 1 - 5 - 2 90 
570-663-DW Publication Design 1 - 2 - 1 45 
570-665-DW Branding Design 1 - 5 - 2 90 
570-666-DW Social and Cultural Promotional Design 1 - 2 - 1 45 
570-668-DW Production Constraints 2 - 1 - 1 45 
General Education
345-BXH-DW Applied Ethics in Humanities 3 - 0 - 3 45 
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Course List Updated: March 27, 2023

Application Deadline

March 1

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Last Modified: October 8, 2020