The Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills initiates and oversees reviews of the Health Care Assistant (HCA), Access to Practical Nursing (APN), and Practical Nursing (PN) curriculum guides. BCcampus leads the project management of these reviews under the ministry’s direction.

Currently, BCcampus is project managing a major review of the HCA, APN, and PN provincial curricula. These reviews are scheduled to take place every five years to ensure the curricula remain in alignment with the standards of practice and competencies as determined by the British Columbia College of Nurses & Midwives (PN and APN curricula) and the B.C. Health Care Assistants Core Competency Profile (HCA curriculum).

As part of this revision cycle, the current HCA, APN, and PN curriculum guides and supplemental materials will be published with Pressbooks on opentextbc.ca.  

Resources

Health Care Assistant

Provincial Curriculum Guide

The Health Care Assistant Program Provincial Curriculum (2023) is now available in Pressbooks.

Supplement

The Health Care Assistant Program: Supplement to the Provincial Curriculum 2023 is now available in Pressbooks:

Health Care Assistant Program: Supplement to the Provincial Curriculum 2023

Practical Nursing

Provincial Curriculum Guide

The Practical Nursing Program Provincial Curriculum (2023) is currently being revised and will be published in Pressbooks upon completion.

Supplement

Revisions to the PN Supplement will begin once the curriculum revisions have been finalized.

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Access to Practical Nursing

Provincial Curriculum Guide

The Access to Practical Nursing Program Provincial Curriculum (2023) is currently being revised and will be published in Pressbooks upon completion.

Supplement

Revisions to the APN Supplement will begin once the curriculum revisions have been finalized.

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Revision Process

Curriculum

This graphic provides a high-level description of the process for the HCA, APN, and PN curricula revisions.

This graphic provides a high-level description of the process for the HCA, APN, and PN curricula revisions. Steps include: 1. Recommendations Collected. 2. Revision Work Beings. 3. Review and Copyedit. 4. Publication and Sharing.

Supplement

The graphic provides a high-level description of the process for the HCA supplement revision project.

The graphic provides a high-level description of the process for the HCA supplement revision project. Steps include: 1. Environmental Scan and Gap Analysis. 2. Revision Work Begins. 3. Review and Copyedit. 4. Publication and Sharing.