Advanced Nursing (Non-Thesis): Advanced Practice Nursing (M.Sc.A.) (48 credits)
Offered by: Ingram School of Nursing (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Degree: Master of Science Applied
Program credit weight: 48
Program Description
The M.Sc.(A.) in Advanced Nursing; Non-Thesis - Advanced Practice Nursing (APN) focuses on advanced practice nursing roles in diverse settings and populations. Content is organized based on a Strength-Based Nursing and health care approach and focuses on family assessment and intervention, collaborative partnerships, and the development of capacities to reflect purposefully and in depth on nursing practice.
This concentration is also designed to develop policy, leadership and nursing education skills. There is an emphasis on bringing the best available evidence to nursing care practice within a variety of healthcare settings, roles, or situations. The knowledge translation stream or research stream choices within the program are to be selected to address a clinically relevant nursing challenge.
Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.
Required Courses (30 credits)
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| NUR2 515 | Applied Statistics for Nursing. | 3 |
Applied Statistics for Nursing. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| NUR2 600 | Knowledge Translation in Healthcare . | 3 |
Knowledge Translation in Healthcare . Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| NUR2 603 | Teaching and Learning in Nursing . | 3 |
Teaching and Learning in Nursing . Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examination of the role of the nurse educator in healthcare settings and academia. Focus on application of theoretical and evidence-based approaches to education and exploration of how individuals learn and develop within the nursing profession. Development of educational approaches that promote student learning in face-to-face, hybrid, simulated and online learning environments. Emphasis on course design and development process, teaching and facilitation, student assessments, the evaluation of education activities and critical reflection and dialogue to support development of educational leadership. | ||
| NUR2 605 | Advanced Clinical Reasoning. | 3 |
Advanced Clinical Reasoning. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Using clinical reasoning skills to generate comprehensive, collaborative, culturally safe and customized advanced nursing care plans in response to commonly presenting illnesses based on the best available evidence and with a strengths-based nursing and healthcare approach. Promoting health team effectiveness by identifying and articulating barriers to sound clinical reasoning, managing conflicts, as well as providing effective feedback and debriefing in challenging clinical situations. | ||
| NUR2 608 | Seminar in Nursing. | 3 |
Seminar in Nursing. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Students 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. The orientation to practice is Strengths-Based Nursing. | ||
| NUR2 611 | Policy Leadership in Nursing. | 3 |
Policy Leadership in Nursing. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| NUR2 612 | Research Methods in Nursing | 3 |
Research Methods in Nursing Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| NUR2 617 | Clinical in Family Systems Nursing 1. | 3 |
Clinical in Family Systems Nursing 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course develops the knowledge and skills required to enhance the health of families. Family health has to do with ways of learning, developing, relating,behaving, and thinking which promote physical and psychological well-being. It involves coping with adversity by developing or drawing on family and individual strengths, as well as external resources. From the foundational perspective of Strengths-Based Nursing, students will learn approaches to family engagement and assessment using theoretically and empirically grounded strategies for working with families. | ||
| NUR2 626 | Professional Issues in Nursing. | 3 |
Professional Issues in Nursing. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| NUR2 642 | Ethics in Advanced Practice. | 3 |
Ethics in Advanced Practice. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
Complementary Courses (18 credits)
9-12 credits from one of the following streams:
Knowledge Translation Stream
9 credits from the following project-based courses:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| NUR2 601 | Applied Knowledge Translation in Healthcare 1. | 6 |
Applied Knowledge Translation in Healthcare 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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). | ||
| NUR2 602 | Applied Knowledge Translation in Healthcare 2 . | 3 |
Applied Knowledge Translation in Healthcare 2 . Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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). | ||
Research Stream
12 credits from the following project-based courses:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| NUR2 630 | Research Project 1. | 3 |
Research Project 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| NUR2 631 | Research Project 2. | 6 |
Research Project 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| NUR2 632 | Research Project 3. | 3 |
Research Project 3. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
3-6 credits from the following clinical courses:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| NUR2 622 | Nursing Education Internship. | 3 |
Nursing Education Internship. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Nursing education internship with a host organization that focuses on applying and integrating education theory and andragogical issues to teaching practice with a focus on a Strengthen-based Nursing and health care approach to active learning. | ||
| NUR2 628 | Advanced Assessment. | 4 |
Advanced Assessment. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Development of advanced skills in health assessment and physical examination of clients across the life span, including diagnostic tests and interventions, documentation and follow-up. | ||
3 credits at the 500-level or higher in the area of health equity to be approved by an Academic Adviser.
0-3 credits at the 500-level or higher of a course that furthers advanced practice nursing competencies, to be approved by an Academic Adviser.