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Undergraduate placements
Undergraduate placements
Undergraduate and diploma nursing students enrolled in our nursing programs learn in small groups or through one-on-one training. A robust orientation program welcomes our students into both hospital sites.
Nursing students will:
- Gain hands-on experience in patient care
- Practice patient assessments
- Learn to collaborate with other members of the health-care team
- Work in a variety of departments within Sinai Health
Placements that focus on specialty areas of training are sometimes available. Contact your placement coordinator to learn more.
Graduate nursing students
Graduate nursing students
Graduate students enrolled in Master of Nursing (MN) and Nurse Practitioner (NP) programs receive mentorship to develop specialized skills in clinical specialization, research, education, and in health systems leadership and administration.
Past opportunities for graduate students have included practice in areas such as:
- Cardiology, including the Heart Function Clinic and Coronary Care Unit (CCU)
- Operational and professional leadership
- Emergency nursing
- Clinical support for surgical teams
- Critical care
- Intensive diabetes therapy
- Obstetrics
Continuing education
Continuing education
The University of Toronto offers many learning opportunities for continuing education and professional development. Our staff members work with the university to translate academic vision into day-to-day learning at both Mount Sinai and Hennick Bridgepoint.
Post graduate placements are available in our General Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Critical Care, Psychiatry, Surgical Oncology, Labour and Delivery, and Mother-Baby units.
Internationally educated nurses
Internationally educated nurses
At Sinai Health, we offer training placements for internationally educated nurses who are completing the Ontario Internationally Educated Nurses Course Consortium competency-bridging program.
Clinical externship employment opportunities
Clinical externship employment opportunities
Clinical externships are paid positions to gain work experience under supervision. These opportunities are open to current nursing students.
At Sinai Health, our clinical externships are transitional roles that offer:
- Specialized clinical experience with direct patient care
- Experience in patient assessments and documentation
- Opportunities to collaborate as part of an interprofessional team
- On-the-job learning that will prepare you for a future career
Nursing Graduate Guarantee
Nursing Graduate Guarantee
The Nursing Graduate Guarantee (NGG) is a provincial program that provides three to six months' funding to newly hired nurses within their first year of registering with the College of Nurses of Ontario.
We then support these new hires with additional training and professional development that leads to full-time hours.
Affiliated post-secondary schools and institutions
Affiliated post-secondary schools and institutions
Sinai Health is fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. We also have academic partnerships with many different publicly funded educational institutions including the following.
- Anderson College (formerly Westervelt)
- Brescia University College
- Brock University
- Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
- Centennial College of Applied Arts and Technology
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
- Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
- Durham College of Applied Arts and Technology
- Fleming College
- George Brown College of Applied Arts and Technology
- Georgian College of Applied Arts and Technology
- Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
- Laurentian University of Sudbury
- Loyalist College
- McGill University
- McMaster University
- Michener Institute of Education at UHN
- Mohawk College
- Nipissing University
- Ontario Tech University (formerly UOIT)
- Oxford College of Arts, Business and Technology
- Queen's University at Kingston
- Renison University College affiliated with the University of Waterloo
- Seneca College
- St. Clair College
- St. Lawrence College
- Toronto Art Therapy Institute
- Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University)
- Trent University
- Tyndale University
- University of Alberta
- University of Manitoba
- University of Toronto
- University of Waterloo
- University of Western Ontario
- Wilfred Laurier University
- Wound Ostomy Continence Institute
- York University