History
The University of New Brunswick Fredericton, the oldest university in Canada, was founded in 1785. Nursing education at Fredericton’s UNB began in 1958 with the establishment of the School of Nursing which enrolled its first class of 14 students in the fall of 1959. In 1969, the School of Nursing became the Faculty of Nursing.
In 1982, the recommendation that the baccalaureate degree be the entry requirement to the practice of professional nursing was ratified by the membership at the Canadian Nurses' Association (CNA) biennial meeting held in St. John's, Newfoundland. Early in 1995, the government of New Brunswick determined that all nursing education in the province would occur at the baccalaureate level. To accomplish this, plans were made to close the diploma schools of nursing and to offer BN education in each of those original diploma school sites. In the fall of 1995, UNB Saint John offered the BN on their campus. As well the BN program started at small campuses in Moncton and Bathurst administered from Fredericton.
In the fall of 2000, by contractual arrangement with Humber College in Toronto, the BN program expanded again to enroll students there, as the UNB-Humber Collaborative BN Program.
UNB Moncton graduated its first class of 29 students in 1999.