[A baccalaureate program born from a university and a college collaboration]

Ontario health care reform has necessitated many changes in the nursing profession. To practice effectively, nurses must readjust their roles and training. This article discusses a revised bachelor of nursing program that is the result of collaboration between two teams of educators from the French-language division of the School of Nursing at Laurentian University and the Nursing Program at Collège Boréal in Sudbury, Ontario. It describes the preliminary stages of program development, the major players, the underlying philosophy and an overview of the program in each of the four years of study. The program, which includes the option of earning a college diploma at the end of the third year, is slated for introduction in the fall of 1997.