Program Requirements
The M.Sc.(Applied) in Nursing; Non-Thesis - Direct Entry to Advanced Practice Nursing program is an entry to practice program structured for individuals with a non–nursing undergraduate degree to study to become a nurse in a three-year Master’s program. The program focuses on the preparation needed for for both entry-to-practice and advanced practice nursing. A Strengths-Based Nursing and health care approach is used in a variety of clinical settings. Emphasis is placed on bringing the best available evidence to nursing practice. Clinically relevant nursing challenges will be addressed in the choice of one of the two streams. Graduates of this program are eligible to write the OIIQ licensing exam.
Program Prerequisite
The completion of a Qualifying Year (QY) is mandatory before applying to Year 1 of the M.Sc.(Applied) in Nursing; Non-Thesis - Direct entry to Advanced Practice Nursing program.
Required Courses (49 credits)
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IPEA 502 Patient-Centred Care in Action
Overview
IPEA : A half day activity, including preparatory work, introducing students to a simulated patient/family centred care scenario in which they will be working in interprofessional teams to develop a plan of care.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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IPEA 503 Managing Interprofessional Conflict
Overview
IPEA : Reflection on sources of conflict and strategies to manage conflict. Using conflict productively for team building and innovative approaches for resolving conflict within the interprofessional health care team.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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NUR2 515 Applied Statistics for Nursing (3 credits)
Overview
Nursing : Principles of data analysis and statistical inference with an emphasis on the utilization and interpretation of analysis of variance and regression procedures in nursing research. An additional emphasis will be on critiquing data analysis in current nursing research articles.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Gélinas, Céline (Fall)
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 204 or Undergraduate Introductory-Level Statistics Course
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NUR2 516 Perspectives on Global Health (3 credits)
Overview
Nursing : An overview of the main issues in global health studies, approaches by which to understand these issues, and the importance of making reasoned links between the key global health studies concepts.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Tuck, Jodi (Winter)
Restriction: Open to students registered in the M.Sc. (Applied) in Nursing (Global Health area of study) and to Direct-Entry Qualifying year students or with permission from the instructor
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NUR2 607 Children's Nursing (3 credits)
Overview
Nursing : This course aims to understand the biological, psychological, and sociocultural perspectives of children 0-18 years and their families using a strength-based nursing framework. This course will go beyond the traditional developmental approach to nursing children and will explore new ways of thinking about their care.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Cervantes, Amanda (Fall)
Corequisite(s): NUR2 609
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NUR2 609 Nursing Care of Children and their Families (3 credits)
Overview
Nursing : Clinical experience working with selected children/adolescents and their families in an acute hospital setting. The focus will be on learning to nurse children/adolescents experiencing illness during an admission to an acute health care facility.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Cervantes, Amanda (Fall)
Corequisite(s): NUR2 611D1
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken NUR2 613D1.
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NUR2 610 Ambulatory/Community Care (3 credits)
Overview
Nursing : Clinical experience in the community/ambulatory settings integrating concepts related to acute and chronic health concerns within a family-centered framework.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Armistead, Cheryl (Winter)
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken NUR2 613D2.
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NUR2 611 Policy Leadership in Nursing (3 credits)
Overview
Nursing : Students continue to gain advanced knowledge of the processes, mechanisms, and principles that promote health and support healing during normative change, illness, and other unexpected events or crises. Through the study of theory, examination of empirical evidence, and discussion of clinical experiences, students develop a philosophical orientation and a value driven approach to nursing to guide their nursing practice with individuals and families.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Kilpatrick, Kelley (Winter)
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken NUR2 611D1 and NUR2 611D2
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NUR2 612 Research Methods in Nursing 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Nursing : Basic knowledge and skills needed to conduct research. The philosophy and principles of scientific inquiry, research design, sampling, techniques of data collection, ethics, and incorporating research into practice are discussed with emphasis for nursing.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Semenic, Sonia Elizabeth (Fall)
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NUR2 616 Advanced Clinical Skills (4 credits)
Overview
Nursing : Supervised clinical experiences in health care agencies are aimed at developing competence in technical and family nursing skills at an advanced level. Experience is determined on an individual basis according to learning needs and the student's area of interest.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
**Due to the length of the clinical course, add/drop is the eleventh lecture day and withdrawal is the fifteenth lecture day.
*In order to secure placement in clinical course, the add/drop is March 30, 2021 which is before the start of the course.
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NUR2 619 Nursing Clinical Skills Laboratory 4 (1 credit)
Overview
Nursing : This laboratory course addresses illness management clinical technical skills and is the companion course to NUR2 616. Students develop a range of clinical technical skills related to the GI, urinary, integumentary systems as well as resuscitation and emergency skills.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
A nominal fee of $119.45 is charged to all nursing students who register in courses where clinical skills are taught to students in the Nursing Learning Laboratory. The fee is for clinical skills kits that students will use during their training in the Nursing Learning Laboratory. The kits also contain additional materials for students to take with them after the training to allow them to practice the skills they learn on their own.
**Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the third lecture day.
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NUR2 621 Wound Care 2 (2 credits)
Overview
Nursing : This course will focus on teaching the principles of assessment and evidence-informed management of chronic and acute wounds in the clinical and community setting. Wound infections, debridement, wound care products, compression, trauma and other types of chronic and complex wounds will be covered along with appropriate treatment options for general and special populations such as neonatal, pediatric, palliative and obese.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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NUR2 623 Clinical Assessment and Therapeutics 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Nursing : Medical, surgical, and nursing management of the major illnesses in adults and children. Topics will include diagnostic tests, drug therapies, dietary management, exercise, relaxation techniques, pain management approaches, patient education, and strategies for maintaining physical and emotional well-being.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Rifi, Kauthar (Fall)
Prerequisites: PATH 300
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NUR2 626 Professional Issues in Nursing (3 credits)
Overview
Nursing : An examination of theories of learning and organizational behaviour as related to the preparation of nurses for the delivery of health care services. Implications of these theories for the assessment, development, and evaluation of nursing programs will be investigated.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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NUR2 634 Clinical Assessment and Therapeutics 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Nursing : Medical, surgical, and nursing management of the major illnesses in adults and children. Topics will include diagnostic tests, drug therapies, dietary management, symptom management, patient education, and strategies for maintaining physical and emotional well-being.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Rifi, Kauthar (Winter)
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NUR2 637 Clinical Nursing Specialization (3 credits)
Overview
Nursing : This course provides students with the opportunity to focus on a specialty clinical area of their choice. This specialty could include any age group in acute care, specialty care setting or community/public health setting. This will allow an opportunity to care for a specific population of patients with unique health challenges related to their illness and the resulting impact on their family and support networks and resources, complex, unpredictable, and/or intense health needs; expansion or acquisition of new knowledge and skills and role autonomy extending beyond traditional scopes of nursing practice.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Hart, Heather Dawn (Winter)
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NUR2 638 Nursing in Critical Care (3 credits)
Overview
Nursing : This course will provide students with the opportunity to consolidate acquired clinical skills, nursing theory and previous clinical courses in an acute care setting.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Gauthier, Mélanie; Garland, Rosalind (Fall) Antonacci, Rosetta (Winter)
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NUR2 640 Clinical Reasoning (3 credits)
Overview
Nursing : Advanced pathophysiology of diseases across the lifespan, decision-making, and interventions for advanced practice related to illness management in a multiple-problem context, including independent clinical reasoning in the management of health and illness concerns.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Sobieraj, Grzegorz (Fall)
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NUR2 642 Ethics in Advanced Practice (3 credits)
Overview
Nursing : Analysis of common as well as complex ethical issues in advanced nursing practice. General ethical standards for professional practice are reviewed as well as selected controversies.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Carnevale, Franco (Winter)
Complementary Courses (12 credits)
12 credits from one of the following streams.
Knowledge Translation Stream:
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NUR2 600 Knowledge Translation in
Healthcare
(3 credits)
Overview
Nursing : An introduction to conceptual models, strategies, and tools to support the identification, implementation, and evaluation of evidence-based practices in nursing and health care. The theoretical foundations for an actual implementation project and an introduction to basic concepts in project management.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Semenic, Sonia Elizabeth (Winter)
Prerequisites: NUR2 612
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NUR2 601 Applied Knowledge Translation in Healthcare 1 (6 credits)
Overview
Nursing : Preparation and implementation of a Knowledge Translation (KT) project related to best practice approaches in health care delivery. The project is conducted in a clinical setting using a collaborative approach to meet the needs identified by the Clinical Partners. Projects involve the adoption of new nursing practices, care processes or healthcare innovations (e.g., implementation of nursing best-practice guidelines), as well as the evaluation and enhancement of existing nursing care practices or service delivery (e.g., quality improvement initiatives).
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Drouin, Susan (Fall)
Prerequisites: NUR2 600
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NUR2 602 Applied Knowledge Translation in Healthcare 2
(3 credits)
Overview
Nursing : Implementation, dissemination, and sustainability of a knowledge translation (KT) project related to best practice approaches in health care delivery. Dissemination of project findings with a particular focus on sustainability and communication plan with their Clinical Partner(s).
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Drouin, Susan (Winter)
Prerequisites: NUR2 601
1. This course is 12 weeks in accordance with the schedules at the clinical sites.
Research Stream:
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NUR2 630 Research Project 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Nursing : Development of a proposal for a nursing related clinical project under the supervision of a Faculty member of the Ingram School of Nursing. Introduction to research proposal writing, including the framing of research questions, the selection of methodological approaches, the consideration of ethical principles in the conduct of research, as well as the development of realistic and feasible expectations for developing a project within limited time frames.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Prerequisites: NUR2 612
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NUR2 631 Research Project 2 (6 credits)
Overview
Nursing : Implementation of a project with the expected outcomes of collecting data, transcribing it; entering it into a database; writing and interpreting the data and writing it into a report describing the results.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Maheu, Christine (Fall)
Prerequisite: NUR2 630.
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NUR2 632 Research Project 3 (3 credits)
Overview
Nursing : Disseminating and reporting, orally and in writing, research findings on a clinical project. The written research report must be in the form of a journal manuscript.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Maheu, Christine (Winter)
Prerequisite: NUR2 631
