Graduate Courses
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NURS 699
Doctoral Dissertation (0)
The PhD dissertation is an original piece of work that offers you the opportunity to hone your research skills, become an expert in a specialized area of knowledge, and contribute to your field of scholarship. It will set the stage for your future research career.
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NURS 601
Doctoral Seminar (0)
The doctoral seminars provide an opportunity for PhD students to share information about the program, develop relationships with one another and faculty, learn about supervisory processes, the program’s management, and for involving oneself in the School. This course is designed as a set of student-centered seminars to provide an ongoing opportunity for students to discuss phenomena relevant to nursing science, academia, and the process of undertaking doctoral thesis research. (2 terms required, usually in first year)
Objectives:
- Discuss the transition to doctoral studies from other professional nursing contexts
- Explore the process of preparing for comprehensive examinations, and thesis and navigating the doctoral program
- Assist in preparing grant and scholarship applications
- Discuss ideas for preparing for comprehensive examinations and improving proposals and dissertations
- Explore strategies for navigating PhD studies, focusing on ways to improve your PhD experience, develop a community among PhD students, and clarify issues about the program
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NURS 540
Educational Processes in Nursing (3)
This course explores the historical development, theoretical bases, practical knowledge, accountability of, and issues regarding curriculum processes and teaching in nursing education and/or practice.
Objectives:
- Analyze the historical development of nursing education and demonstrate the way this has influenced present day practices
- Synthesize information, utilizing knowledge or processes from teaching and learning theory, to support evidence based teaching
- Critically evaluate how a diversity of learners’ needs and styles can be incorporated in an educators teaching practice
- Analyze the ethical implications of specific learning strategies in a variety of contexts and settings in nursing education
- Extrapolate the concepts underpinning curriculum development and evaluation
Postulate future directions for nursing education, based on current trends and innovations and their possible implications for education, practice and research
How to access your course in the UBC Course Schedule: In the top right corner of the page, please select the correct session (W or S), select your course from the list of NURS courses, and click on the course & session number (e.g NURS 123 XXX) to read the published notes for that section. To register as a student you must logged in with your CWL.
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NURS 502
Ethics and Politics of Nursing (3)
In this course the ethics and politics of nursing are examined. An exploration of ethical practice in nursing and contemporary health care contexts that promote social justice and health equity is undertaken. The current climate of nursing practice and the context of health-care practice and policy are critically evaluated. The values that underlie individual and policy decision- making in nursing, and health care more widely, are examined. Offered early in the MSN program this course will also focus on providing students ongoing feedback and support in developing their writing skills.
Objectives:
- Critically examine the values shaping nursing and health care in Canada.
- Evaluate various theoretical perspectives for their usefulness in understanding how health, health care and nursing are shaped my competing structures, values and power relations
- Use a nursing lens to examine and foster ethical practice and policy
- Explore how values, health, health care and nursing practice are shaped within the context of larger social trends and political mandates
Begin to assess how values and policies are enacted to affect particular populations differentially
How to access your course in the UBC Course Schedule: In the top right corner of the page, please select the correct session (W or S), select your course from the list of NURS courses, and click on the course & session number (e.g NURS 123 XXX) to read the published notes for that section. To register as a student you must logged in with your CWL.
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NURS 577A
Graduate Practicum In Nursing - Advanced Practice Nursing and the Role of the Administrator (3-6)
This practicum-based course is designed to provide the student with an opportunity to explore advanced practice in the field of education through a selected educational setting of interest. Prerequisite: NURS 520
Guidelines for requesting NURS 577
Objectives:
- Develop and implement a professional learning plan
- Demonstrate competence in nursing education and training practice
- Employ collegiate and collaborative practice
- Integrate reflective practice and scholarship in professional education into their practice
- Evaluate their progress as professional educators according to quality indicators such as student performance, student and peer evaluation
- Demonstrate beginning competence for each of the concepts related to the advanced practice nurse (APN)
- Explore their development in preparation for an advanced practice role in nursing education
How to access your course in the UBC Course Schedule: In the top right corner of the page, please select the correct session (W or S), select your course from the list of NURS courses, and click on the course & session number (e.g NURS 123 XXX) to read the published notes for that section. To register as a student you must logged in with your CWL.
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NURS 577B
Graduate Practicum in Nursing - Advanced Practice Nursing and the Role of the Educator (3-6)
This practicum-based course is designed to provide the student with an opportunity to explore advanced practice in the field of education through a selected educational setting of interest. Through the practicum experience the student is expected to engage reflexively to explore the relationship between nursing and education knowledge and educational practice in a specific teaching setting. Prerequisite: NURS 540
Guidelines for requesting NURS 577
Objectives:
- Develop and implement a professional learning plan
- Demonstrate competence in nursing education and training practice
- Employ collegiate and collaborative practice
- Integrate reflective practice and scholarship in professional education into their practice
- Evaluate their progress as professional educators according to quality indicators such as student performance, student and peer evaluation
- Demonstrate beginning competence for each of the concepts related to the advanced practice nurse (APN)
Explore their development in preparation for an advanced practice role in nursing education
How to access your course in the UBC Course Schedule: In the top right corner of the page, please select the correct session (W or S), select your course from the list of NURS courses, and click on the course & session number (e.g NURS 123 XXX) to read the published notes for that section. To register as a student you must logged in with your CWL.
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NURS 506
Health Promotions in Practice (3)
Nurses, nurse practitioners and other clinicians can be highly influential in fostering health promotion in clinical and community practice settings. Nursing 506 examines the role of health promotion in diverse practice contexts. Students' will explore various health promotion strategies, approaches and interventions. Emphasis is on how to adapt health promotion strategies, approaches and interventions in ways that take the social and economic contexts of peoples’ lives into account.
Objectives:
- Identify assumptions and values that underpin various conceptualizations of health promotion
- Critically analyze current recommendations for health promotion, harm reduction, and illness prevention
- Discuss the social and economic contexts that influence people’s engagement with health promotion
- Describe how health promotion interventions, strategies and approaches can be implemented in clinical practice
Discuss the role of advanced practice nurses in integrating health promotion to clinical and community practice settings
How to access your course in the UBC Course Schedule: In the top right corner of the page, please select the correct session (W or S), select your course from the list of NURS courses, and click on the course & session number (e.g NURS 123 XXX) to read the published notes for that section. To register as a student you must logged in with your CWL.
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NURS 581
Leadership in Knowledge Application and Translation
Through an examination of philosophies, theories and praxis in the application of nursing knowledge, this graduate level course will prepare students to lead innovative research, education and practice in knowledge application and translation. Learning activities will focus on theoretical and practical issues around developing and applying knowledge to improve health or health care systems. The course will provide an introduction to basic principles, conceptual frameworks, research design, and interventions used in knowledge translation, and students will develop capacity to engage with an array of knowledge users and stakeholders. Prerequisite: NURS 580.
Objectives:
- Analyze the philosophical and theoretical underpinnings of a variety of knowledge translation conceptual frameworks
- Analyze the methodological underpinnings of diverse knowledge translation approaches
- Identify the diverse range of stakeholders and knowledge users involved for effective knowledge translation research and interventions
- Evaluate the cohesion and congruency of research questions, design and outcomes in translational research
- Further develop leadership capacities around application and translation of nursing knowledge and stakeholder engagement
How to access your course in the UBC Course Schedule: In the top right corner of the page, please select the correct session (W or S), select your course from the list of NURS courses, and click on the course & session number (e.g NURS 123 XXX) to read the published notes for that section. To register as a student you must logged in with your CWL.
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NURS 512
Leadership in Nursing and Health (3)
This course is designed to introduce students' to contemporary leadership theories and practices in the context of complex, constantly changing health care environments. Key leadership competencies will be highlighted throughout the course. It is intended that the course will enhance students' leadership potential and prepare them as an emerging leader in various practice environments.
Objectives:
- Explore an array of leadership theories and concepts
- Critically evaluate the applicability of selected theories and concepts to nursing leadership
- Examine the individual, interpersonal, historical, and structural contexts in which nursing leadership is enacted
- Identify and discuss factors within the preceding contexts that influence leadership
- Examine current evidence-informed competencies for effective nursing leadership at all levels of practice (e.g., front-line care provider, middle-level nurse leadership, executive nurse leadership)
- Examine the contextual resources and constraints for effective nursing leadership at all levels of practice
- Explore the current challenges facing nurse leaders at levels of leadership practice (e.g., bullying, changing scope of practice, RN/LPN teamwork)
- Further develop effective strategies and competencies to address challenges facing nursing leaders at all levels of leadership practice (e.g., conflict management, coaching and mentoring, empowering leadership)
- Develop leadership skills in a group setting
Demonstrate insight into own strengths and areas for development as a team member and as a nurse leader within the context of their scope of practice and roles and responsibilities within their current clinical setting
How to access your course in the UBC Course Schedule: In the top right corner of the page, please select the correct session (W or S), select your course from the list of NURS courses, and click on the course & session number (e.g NURS 123 XXX) to read the published notes for that section. To register as a student you must logged in with your CWL.
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NURS 599
Masters Thesis (9)
A Master’s Thesis (Nursing 599 – 9 credits) is the written report of a formal, systematic scholarly inquiry following accepted methodology to answer questions relevant to the discipline of nursing or the broader field of health sciences scholarship. Such a research project can take a number of forms including:
- A project which includes collecting primary (newly created) data, or conducting a secondary analysis of data from a larger research study, which are both common in quantitative or qualitative studies in order to answer questions relevant to nursing or health care.
- Projects in which you analyze existing data or evidence, such as a policy analysis, a historical analysis, or a discourse analysis in order to critique or question established assumptions, add to policy development, or to explain events or occurrences in context and time. Such data could include archival data, existing documents, or reports.
- Projects which involve a systematic, critical, substantial analysis and synthesis of the literature to answer questions relevant to nursing or health care. This could take the form of a formal systematic review of a number of published research reports or studies or other form of systematic review of the literature based on accepted standards. A meta-analysis could also be conducted although such a project is not common at the MSN level.
- Projects which involve philosophical or ethical inquiry to address key practice issues in nursing and health care.
- Projects which involve concept development, for example a concept analysis, or another form of theory development serving to expand theory relevant to nursing and health.
The student completing a master’s thesis will have engaged in the phases of the research process, including problem identification, review of existing knowledge, methods determination, analysis and interpretation in an original project or in an agreed‐upon component of a project conducted with other researchers. The research question(s) must be derived from the current state of nursing knowledge in the identified substantive field and these must include a discussion about the contributions or implications of the findings for nursing or health care (including implications for practice, education, policy, administrative management, research, or knowledge as appropriate).
In addition to a written report of the study, completion of the thesis requires a public oral defence of the project.
Learn more about Thesis Guidelines
Learn more about Thesis Oral Defence Procedure and Guidelines.
How to access your course in the UBC Course Schedule: In the top right corner of the page, please select the correct session (W or S), select your course from the list of NURS courses, and click on the course & session number (e.g NURS 123 XXX) to read the published notes for that section. To register as a student you must logged in with your CWL.
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