Program Overview

Program Overview

The Master of Science, Applied (M.Sc.A.) in Advanced Nursing (Non-Thesis) is a course-based program offered by the Ingram School of Nursing in the Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences. The program emphasizes hands-on and comprehensive learning opportunities, aiming to equip students with skills in information synthesis, problem identification, and critical thinking to pursue professional opportunities or continue their studies.

Program Description

The program offers three concentrations:

• Advanced Practice Nursing concentration: focuses on Advanced Practice Nursing roles in diverse settings and populations, emphasizing family assessment and intervention, collaborative partnerships, and the development of capacities to reflect purposefully and in-depth on nursing practice. This concentration also develops policy, leadership, and nursing education skills, guiding students to bring the best available evidence to nursing care practice within various healthcare settings, roles, or situations. Students may select the knowledge translation stream or the research stream to address clinically relevant nursing challenges.
• Global Health concentration: focuses on collaborative, trauma-informed, culturally safe, Strengths-Based Nursing, and healthcare approaches to working with underserved populations, including in limited-resource and rural environments. The concentration stresses understanding the inherent power dynamics, systemic barriers, and ethical dilemmas that arise through this work. The Global Health concentration provides students with health equity-focused content throughout their program of study, and in their final year, students spend one semester in a Global Health Partnership site (locally, provincially, or internationally) taking clinical and project-based courses.
• Nursing Services Administration concentration: focuses on the distribution of nursing care, planning, coordination, and evaluation of nursing services, management of human, material, and financial resources, and the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration to meet standards of care. This concentration develops management, leadership, and policy skills in preparation for evolving, complex healthcare delivery systems, where leading change for system-level transformation is required. There is an emphasis on using the best available evidence to support nursing administration practices within various healthcare settings. Students may select the knowledge translation stream or the research stream to address a relevant nursing administration issue.

Admission Requirements

• All applicants must be licensed or eligible to be licensed with the Ordre des infirmières et infirmiers du Québec (OIIQ).
• An eligible Bachelor's degree in Nursing with a minimum 3.0 GPA out of a possible 4.0 GPA.
• English-language proficiency.

Unique Program Features

• The program is typically completed in two years, with part-time students taking between three to five years.
• The learning experience fosters individual judgment, creativity, leadership, and initiative.
• The program is led by nationally recognized researchers and clinicians, allowing students to participate in cutting-edge programs of research and knowledge translation projects related to nursing practice and administration.

Application Deadlines

The application deadlines are as follows:

• Fall intake: Applications open on October 1, with a deadline of February 1 for domestic applicants.
• Winter intake: Applications open on September 1, with a deadline of September 30 for domestic applicants.
• Summer intake: Not available.

Available Intakes

The program offers intakes in the Fall and Winter semesters.