Advanced Nursing (Non-Thesis): Nursing Services Administration (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.(Applied) in Advanced Nursing; Non-Thesis - Nursing Services Administration focuses on the appropriate distribution of nursing care; the planning, coordination, and evaluation of nursing services; the management of human, material, and financial resources; and the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration to meet standards of care. This program emphasizes management, leadership, and policy skills—in preparation for today’s evolving, complex healthcare delivery systems, where leading change for system-level transformation is required. The use of best available evidence to support nursing administration practices within a variety of healthcare settings. Students may select the knowledge translation stream or the research stream to address a relevant nursing administration issue.
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 (27 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 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. | ||
| NUR3 624 | Nursing Services Administration Internship. | 3 |
Nursing Services Administration Internship. Terms offered: Summer 2025 Nursing services administration internship with a host organization that focuses on the nurse manager role in the heath care sector. Nursing management under the preceptorship of selected nurse managers, integrating the strengths-based nursing and healthcare leadership in a management context. | ||
Complementary Courses (21 credits)
3 credits at the 500-level or higher in the area of Health Equity to be approved by an Academic Advisor.
6-9 credits at the 500 level or higher of a course that furthers advanced practice nursing competencies, including relevant School of Continuing Studies courses in the area of administration, to be approved by an academic adviser.
9-12 credits from the following two streams:
Knowledge Translation Stream
| 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
| 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. | ||