Nursing (Non-Thesis): Direct Entry to Advanced Practice Nursing (M.Sc.A.) (61 credits)

Partnership in Interprofessional Teams

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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.

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Managing Interprofessional Conflict.

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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.

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Applied Statistics for Nursing.

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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.

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Perspectives on Global Health.

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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.

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Children's Nursing

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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.

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Nursing Care of Children and their Families.

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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.

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Ambulatory/Community Care.

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Clinical experience in the community/ambulatory settings integrating concepts related to acute and chronic health concerns within a family-centered framework.

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Policy Leadership in Nursing.

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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.

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Research Methods in Nursing

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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.

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Advanced Clinical Skills.

Terms offered: Summer 2025

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.

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Nursing Clinical Skills Laboratory 4.

Terms offered: Summer 2025

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.

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Wound Care 2.

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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.

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Clinical Assessment and Therapeutics 1.

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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.

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Professional Issues in Nursing.

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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.

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Clinical Assessment and Therapeutics 2.

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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.

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Clinical Nursing Specialization.

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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.

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Nursing in Critical Care.

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This course will provide students with the opportunity to consolidate acquired clinical skills, nursing theory and previous clinical courses in an acute care setting.

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Clinical Reasoning.

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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.

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Ethics in Advanced Practice.

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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.

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Knowledge Translation in Healthcare .

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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.

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Applied Knowledge Translation in Healthcare 1.

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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).

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Applied Knowledge Translation in Healthcare 2 .

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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).

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Research Project 1.

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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.

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Research Project 2.

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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.

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Research Project 3.

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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.

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