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Master of Nursing

Course-based Option:

NURS 891.3 - Concept Clarification in Advanced Nursing Practice
Considers the current stage of theory development in nursing, critical thinking, and clarification of concepts and relationships among them that are central to advanced nursing.

NURS 812.3 - Leadership in Nursing
This course facilitates the critical analysis of concepts, functions, and skills in the nursing role. Ongoing integration of theoretical and research principles are stressed.

NURS 813.3 - Teaching in Nursing
Surveys issues, trends, and methods of nursing education. An examination of the nature of instruction in nursing education, staff development programs, and patient teaching is the main focus.

NURS 892.3 - Nursing Research
Focuses on research methodology with application to clinical nursing problems. Major emphasis will be placed on elements of the research process; critical analysis, and evaluation of nursing research, quantitative and qualitative research design and developing proposals for nursing research investigations.

NURS 882.3 - Practicum
Opportunity is provided to test and evaluate selected frameworks related to teaching, leadership, or research with an expert in one of those areas.

NURS 990. – Graduate Seminar
This departmental seminar includes reports and discussion of current nursing research. Graduates are encouraged to attend throughout their program and required to attend for two terms.

Statistics
A three-credit course at the graduate level must be selected. The course selected must be approved by the College of Nursing.

Ethics
Graduate students are required to take the College of Graduate Studies & Research GSR 960 in the first term of their program.

More information is available at http://www.usask.ca/cgsr/current_students/gsrclasses.php

NURS 993.3 - Publishable Paper
Provides assistance with writing a publishable paper. Students in the course-based option will be given credit for this course upon presentation of a paper that is suitable for peer review in a professional journal.

Elective
An 800 level course in Nursing or a related field. Descriptions of nursing electives can be found under the course descriptions for the thesis-based option.