Nursing

General Information

The UVic School of Nursing is dedicated to excellence in accessible and innovative undergraduate and graduate nursing education, research initiatives, and professional activities. The School is committed to generating knowledge, advancing the nursing profession and discipline, and enhancing nursing practice to improve health for individuals, families, community, and society. Through collaborative partnerships among educators, students, health practitioners, researchers, and policy developers, we strive to support health and social change.

The School of Nursing Graduate Education Programs are based in a philosophical model that attends to coherence among and between ontological, epistemological, ethical, and practice dimensions. This model is fostered by values of openness, diversity, scholarship, and service related to human health.

Our School’s faculty are widely recognized for their contributions to the advancement of nursing as a scientific discipline and practice profession through research, leadership, practice, teaching, publications and presentations. A comprehensive listing of nursing faculty is located at <www.nursing.uvic.ca>.

All teaching faculty, as well as students, have the benefit of working with a skilled group of professional and support staff.

Contact Information

School of Nursing

Location: HSD Building, Room A402

Mailing Address:

Courier Address:

Telephone Number: 250-721-7954

Fax Number: 250-721-6231

Email: gradnurs@uvic.ca

Website: <nursing.uvic.ca>

Associate Director, Graduate Education: Dr. Lynne Young

Graduate Secretary: Sophie Coté

Degrees and Specializations Offered

The School of Nursing offers a number of graduate education opportunities. Students may enrol in one of four options through the School of Nursing directly and may apply for double master’s degrees in Nursing and Health Information Science:

• The PhD in Nursing, on campus
• The Master of Nursing, Advanced Practice Nursing: Advanced Practice Leadership option (APL) by distributed learning
• The Master of Nursing, Advanced Practice Nursing: Nurse Practitioner option (NP) by distributed learning
• The Master of Nursing, Advanced Practice Nursing: Nurse Educator option (NUED) by distributed learning
• The Master of Nursing, Advanced Practice Nursing and the Master of Science in Health Informatics, by distributed learning (see Admission Requirements section for specific information on this application process)

Nurses with a strong interest in health and social service policy can enrol through the Faculty of Human and Social Development for a Master of Arts through the Studies in Policy and Practice in Health and Social Services Program (see this page).

Applicants to interdisciplinary graduate programs identifying nursing as one of their disciplinary areas are welcomed and encouraged to contact the Associate Director of Graduate Programs (Graduate Adviser) in the School of Nursing as well as the Faculty of Graduate Studies.

Facilities

The University of Victoria School of Nursing is uniquely situated in the Faculty of Human and Social Development. This faculty consists of the Schools of Social Work, Child and Youth Care, Public Administration and Health Information Sciences, as well as the Indigenous Governance Program, the Institute for Dispute Resolution and the Interdisciplinary Studies in Policy and Practice Graduate Program. Additionally, the School of Nursing provides the opportunity to pursue scholarly links with the University Centre on Aging, the Centre for Youth and Society and the Centre for the Study of Religion and Society. Off campus, we are linked with research centres at the University of British Columbia, including the Institute for Health Promotion Research, the Human Early Learning Partnership and the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics. We also have strong research and practice linkages with the Vancouver Island Health Authority, the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, the Fraser Health Authority, the Interior Health Authority, the Provincial Health Authority and the Ministries of Health Planning and Health Services.

Financial Support

The UVic School of Nursing administers a number of awards to students enrolled in nursing graduate programs at the University of Victoria. Detailed information on these awards and application procedures is available from the UVic School of Nursing website: <nursing.uvic.ca>. All eligible students are encouraged to apply for funding from provincial, federal and external sources.

Faculty support will be available to students in the preparation of applications to major funding agencies. Students are not required to have funding in place when they apply to graduate programs in nursing; however, financial support may facilitate program completion.

Eligibility for nomination for scholarships administered by the School of Nursing will be determined on the basis of individual scholarship criteria, full-time registered status, grade point average (gpa) and in the case of new students, the assessment ratings on application criteria. The nomination for scholarship process is competitive. Nominations are reviewed by professional staff and faculty in the School on an annual basis.

Eligible new MN students will be invited to apply for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) master’s award during their first year of study and will be assisted in preparing their applications. This is a competitive process at all levels, beginning with the School of Nursing, the University and finally SSHRC.

Research and teaching assistantships in the School of Nursing are limited and will be publicized to all registered students should they come available.