Nursing (Non-Thesis): Global Health Direct Entry (M.Sc.A.) (61 credits)
Offered by: Ingram School of Nursing (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Degree: Master of Science Applied
Program credit weight: 61
Program Description
The focus of the MSc(Applied) in Nursing; Non-Thesis - Global Health Direct Entry program is on providing collaborative, trauma-informed, and culturally safe care. A strengths-based nursing and health care approach is used to work with underserved populations in limited resources and rural environments. The program emphasizes health equity focused content. The program includes a semester spent in a Global Health Partnership site (locally, provincially, or internationally) that focuses on clinical and project-based work. The completion of a Qualifying Year (QY) is mandatory before applying to Year 1 of this program. Upon completion, graduates are eligible to write the OIIQ licensing exam.
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 (61 credits)
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| IPEA 502 | Partnership in Interprofessional Teams | 0 |
Partnership in Interprofessional Teams Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| IPEA 503 | Managing Interprofessional Conflict. | 0 |
Managing Interprofessional Conflict. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| 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 516 | Perspectives on Global Health. | 3 |
Perspectives on Global Health. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| NUR2 606 | Clinical Reasoning in a Global Context . | 3 |
Clinical Reasoning in a Global Context . Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Generating comprehensive, collaborative, culturally safe and customized advanced nursing care plans in response to commonly presenting health/illness issues in underserved populations including those with limited resources. Identification of barriers to sound clinical reasoning and effectively present nursing care plans to other healthcare professionals in diverse settings. | ||
| NUR2 607 | Children's Nursing | 3 |
Children's Nursing Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| NUR2 609 | Nursing Care of Children and their Families. | 3 |
Nursing Care of Children and their Families. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| NUR2 610 | Ambulatory/Community Care. | 3 |
Ambulatory/Community Care. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Clinical experience in the community/ambulatory settings integrating concepts related to acute and chronic health concerns within a family-centered framework. | ||
| 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 616 | Advanced Clinical Skills. | 4 |
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. | ||
| NUR2 619 | Nursing Clinical Skills Laboratory 4. | 1 |
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. | ||
| NUR2 621 | Wound Care 2. | 2 |
Wound Care 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| 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 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. | ||
| NUR2 634 | Clinical Assessment and Therapeutics 2. | 3 |
Clinical Assessment and Therapeutics 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| NUR2 636 | Global Health Nursing Internship. | 3 |
Global Health Nursing Internship. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course offers students in the Global Health concentrations an opportunity to integrate knowledge and clinical competencies acquired thus far in the program in collaboration with an on-site mentor. Students may choose to focus the clinical experience in either community nursing or an acute care setting to further develop and strengthen advanced clinical judgment as well as the ability to respond more purposefully to complex health concerns of individuals, families, and/or communities. | ||
| NUR2 638 | Nursing in Critical Care. | 3 |
Nursing in Critical Care. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course will provide students with the opportunity to consolidate acquired clinical skills, nursing theory and previous clinical courses in an acute care setting. | ||
| 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. | ||