Courses

The course provides a critical examination of advanced practice nursing in Canada. The historical, philosophical, sociopolitical, legislative, and economic factors that impact individuals, communities, and the healthcare system are examined. Challenges and opportunities related to implementing roles, developing leadership, and advocating for strategies that influence healthy public policy are examined.

Prerequisite: Program Admission

This course builds capacity for evidence-informed research in advanced practice nursing. Students explore collaborative inquiry, apply valid methodologies, and translate findings to influence policy, standards, and system-level changes. Emphasis is placed on Indigenous principles of research and knowledge systems and the translation of findings to influence policy, standards, and system-level changes, including practice improvements, in meaningful ways.

Prerequisite: Program Admission

The diagnostic reasoning process is introduced in the context of client care, with emphasis on developing advanced health assessment, diagnostic, and clinical decision-making skills.

This course requires a practice education experience.

Prerequisite: MNUR 800 and MNUR 803

Cellular biology provides a foundation for the study of disease. Pathophysiology of acute and chronic disorders across the lifespan informs pharmacotherapeutic decisions as well as professional, ethical, regulatory, and practical aspects of prescribing.

Prerequisite: MNUR 800 (courses can be taken concurrently)

Expanding on the content from MNUR 803, pathophysiology of disorders across the lifespan informs health assessments and pharmacotherapeutic decisions. Practice education experience focuses on developing robust communication, assessment, diagnostic, prescribing, and care planning skills while adhering to ethical and legal standards relevant to the nurse practitioner role.

This course requires a practice education experience.

Prerequisite: MNUR 802 and MNUR 803

Learners build competency in reproductive and pediatric health, emphasizing preconception, prenatal, and postnatal care, including acute and chronic pediatric conditions. Learners apply evidence-informed practice and clinical reasoning, integrating ethical, client centered approaches and interprofessional collaboration to promote holistic care. Developmental science, family systems theory, and social determinants of health are emphasized.

This course requires a practice education experience

Prerequisite: MNUR 805

This course further develops clinical reasoning by applying evidence-based approaches in the diagnosis and management of acute and episodic conditions in adults. Emphasis is placed on evidence-informed approaches to trauma-informed and gender-specific care, therapeutic counselling, cultural safety, and diversity. Students explore virtual health technologies while upholding privacy, ethical standards, and adapting to diverse, evolving healthcare environments.

This course requires a practice education experience.

Prerequisite: MNUR 805

Pathophysiological mechanisms of diseases in older adults and clients with chronic conditions are analyzed. Existing comorbidities, clinical evidence, and client preferences guide individualized treatment regimens. Practice education emphasizes initiating and/or modifying management plans (including end-of-life care), supporting care transitions, discharge planning, and continuity of care through collaboration, advocacy, and resource allocation.

This course requires a practice education experience.

Prerequisite: MNUR 805

Advanced practice nurses will be prepared with a strong theoretical foundation in health promotion, illness prevention and maintenance of health across populations and communities. Interprofessional approaches to improve population health considering the influence of sociopolitical, environmental, economic and health concepts are included.

Prerequisite: Program Admission

Transforming complex clinical problems to researchable questions, students will systematically review and appraise the literature for evidence, consider ethical issues in research methods, design a study proposal, and consider knowledge translation strategies. A literature review is completed in preparation for a major research paper that addresses health improvements for patients, families, communities, or health care systems.

Prerequisite: 24 approved credit hours at the 800 level.

This course consolidates nurse practitioner competencies through the integration of theory, evidence-informed practice, scholarship, and knowledge translation. Emphasis is placed on clinical decision-making, ethical practice, autonomy, accountability, and interprofessional collaboration. Learners demonstrate advanced nursing practice by critically analyzing organizational and system-level issues to optimize client outcomes and address community and population health needs.

This course requires a practice education experience.

Prerequisite: All other CNPP courses (30 credit hours)