Hospital partners with college to recruit more nurses to Brampton [Video]

Brampton’s health system has teamed up with an Ontario college to bring more nursing students to local hospitals with potential job offers once they graduate.

The program comes from William Osler Health System and Humber Polytechnic and is a first-of-its-kind collaboration “designed to transform nursing education, enhance patient care, and strengthen the health care workforce through innovative clinical practice, education and research collaboration,” the health system says.

Launched in 2023, the Humber-Osler Academic Practice Partnership sees Humber nursing students get “earlier and more consistent clinical placements” at Osler hospitals, including Etobicoke General and Brampton Civic.

Starting in the second year of the nursing program, the partnership gives students hands-on learning to develop critical skills and couldlead to a job with potential employment opportunities at Osler hospitals after graduation.

“As one of the first publicly funded colleges in Ontario to offer a four-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree, Humber is …