Program Requirements
The Master of Science(Applied) in Nurse Practitioner; Non-Thesis - Adult Care is open to Bachelor’s prepared nurses and is taken concurrently with the Graduate Diploma in Nurse Practitioner - Adult Care. This course of study is designed to prepare students to assume the full scope of Adult Care Nurse Practitioner practice. Adult Care Nurse practitioners provide advanced-practice nursing care (including performing assessments, forming medical impressions, providing treatments, and ensuring continuity of care) to the adult population with complex acute, chronic or critical health issues, requiring secondary and tertiary line of care. The program is built on a foundation of Strengths-Based Nursing care of individuals, families and communities.
Required Courses (45 credits)
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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 608 Seminar in Nursing (3 credits)
Overview
Nursing : 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.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Hart, Heather Dawn (Fall)
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken NUR2 611D1/D2.
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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 (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: Malama, Kalonde; Barbo, Geneveave (Fall)
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NUR2 617 Clinical in Family Systems Nursing 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Nursing : 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.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Hart, Heather Dawn; Di Feo, Maria (Fall)
Corequisite(s): NUR2 608
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken NUR2 614D1/D2.
A fee of $25.56 for two name pins will be charged based on registration in this course.
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NUR2 618 Clinical in Family Systems Nursing 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Nursing : This course continues to develop 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 continue to develop approaches to family assessment and intervention using theoretically and empirically grounded strategies for working with families.
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.
Corequisite(s): NUR2 611
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken NUR2 614D1/D2.
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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: McVey, Lynne; Germeil, Fabienne (Winter)
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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; Sofronas, Marianne (Winter)
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NUR2 648 Advanced Adult Health Assessment (6 credits)
Overview
Nursing : Examination and application of advanced physical assessment skills and techniques. Emphasis on history taking and interpreting assessment and diagnostic data, including practice of skills in oral and written communication with patients, families and health care colleagues.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: McNamara, Shannon; Rousseau, Lori; Heslip Pelletier, Sheena (Fall)
A nominal fee of $78.01 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.
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NUR2 657 Adult Care Internship 1 (13 credits)
Overview
Nursing : Integration of theoretical knowledge with practical skills in the clinical setting. Exposure to a variety of in-patient and specialized clinical settings. Practice of history taking and physical assessment; determine differential diagnoses; request diagnostic exams and techniques, propose therapeutic options, implement interventions and determine desired outcomes in the adult population. The emphasis will be on clinical judgement, critical thinking, collaboration, professional roles and responsibilities, communication, evidence-based practice and leadership.
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 689 Clinical Seminar (2 credits)
Overview
Nursing : Application of theoretical knowledge to clinical practice by exploring illnesses and diseases of the adult through the presentation of cases and scientific articles. Presentation of a scientific article pertaining to a related subject of interest, a new or controversial therapy or a clinical question.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: McNamara, Shannon; Heslip Pelletier, Sheena (Fall)
