Advanced Nursing (M.Sc.A.)

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

The program offers the following concentrations:

• Advanced Practice Nursing concentration: focuses on Advanced Practice Nursing roles in diverse settings and populations. Content is organized based on a Strength-Based Nursing and Healthcare approach and focuses on family assessment and intervention, collaborative partnerships, and the development of capacities to reflect purposefully and in-depth on nursing practice. This concentration is also designed to develop policy, leadership and nursing education skills. There is an emphasis on guiding students to bring the best available evidence to nursing care practice within a variety of health care settings, roles, or situations. Students may select the knowledge translation stream or the research stream to address a 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 the importance of 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 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 concentration is designed to develop management, leadership, and policy skills—in preparation for today’s evolving, complex healthcare delivery systems, where leading change for system-level transformation is required. There is an emphasis on 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.

All applicants must be licensed or be eligible to be licensed with the Ordre des infirmières et infirmiers du Québec (OIIQ).

• For this program, an eligible Bachelor's degree in Nursing with a minimum 3.0 GPA out of a possible 4.0 GPA
• English-language proficiency

Each program has specific admission requirements including required application documents. Please consult the MScA Advanced Nursing requirements website for more details.

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