Information for Students
Post Graduate Degree – Nurse Practitioner Certificate
Open to students who are Registered Nurses and who have completed a Master of Nursing degree and now wish to become eligible to be licenced as a Primary Health Care - Nurse Practitioner.
Deadline date for Master of Nursing Applications is November 15.
Required Courses - Course Descriptions
NURS 877 – Practicum I: Advanced Nursing Practice in Primary Health Care (480 hours)
The student will provide direct care in selected primary health care settings. Students will have the opportunity to demonstrate primary health care skills and advanced practice clinical judgment. Scholarly activities in this clinical practicum will be designed so that the student will gain experience in consultation, education, integration of theory, research and clinical knowledge related to the goals of multidisciplinary health services and systems.
NURS 878 – Practicum II: Advanced Nursing Practice with Vulnerable Populations (240 hours)
Students will have the opportunity to demonstrate primary health care skills and advanced practice clinical judgment with a selected vulnerable population. Scholarly activities in this clinical practicum will be designed so that the student will gain experience in consultation, education, integration of theory, research and clinical knowledge related to the goals of multidisciplinary health services and systems.
NURS 879.3 – Advanced Health Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning II
Building on Advanced Health Assessment, this course develops the students knowledge of diagnostic reasoning for clinical practice. Using the assessment process students will develop an understanding of diagnostic test and procedures that will address the investigation of common medical conditions across the life span.
NURS 881.3 – Pathophysiology-Pharmacotherapy for Advanced Nursing Practice I
Students will integrate pathophysiology and drug therapy concepts as a basis for advanced primary health care nursing practice. Students will develop diagnostic reasoning based on understanding the pathophysiology of endocrine, cardiovascular and pulmonary systems across the lifespan and make therapeutic decisions based on pharmacotherapeutic principles, and professional, ethical, regulatory and practical aspects of prescribing.
NURS 883.3 – Theory for Advanced Nursing Practice Roles and Primary Health Care
This course will explore and evaluate theoretical aspects, issues and roles in Advanced Nursing Practice within the context of Primary Health Care.
NURS 884.3 – Advanced Health Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning I
This course builds on participants skills and knowledge in the conduct of comprehensive and focused health assessment across the life span. Lectures introduce concepts, frameworks, and techniques integral to advanced health assessment skills. Labs will provide opportunities to practice comprehensive and focused health assessment and build on the health assessment skills needed for clinical practice as a Nurse Practitioner.
NURS 885.3 – Nursing Therapeutics I: Individual to Community
Focuses on therapeutic approaches of advanced nursing practice with individuals, families, groups, and communities as they apply to primary health care nursing. The emphasis will be on the integration of theories and interventions with clients (individual, families, groups, and communities) who have mental health needs and common medical disorders in an interdisciplinary primary health care nursing context.
NURS 886.3 – Pathophysiology-Pharmacotherapy for Advanced Nursing Practice II
Building on knowledge and skills learned in Pathophysiology-Pharmacoptherapy for Advanced Nursing Practice I, students will complete the body systems across the life span. They will incorporate both an understanding of pathophysiology and the utilization of pharmacotherapeutic principles, and professional, ethical, regulatory and practical aspects of prescribing to make therapeutic decisions.
NURS 888.3 – Nursing Therapeutics II: Advanced Management
This course focuses on concepts of primary care management of complex, multidimensional health problems experienced within family, community and population contexts. The selection of clinical interventions, clinical decision making and evaluation of strategies will be stressed in relation to the primary health care nurse practitioner role.