Course Details

Please see the Plan of Study details for more information about the program.

Core Courses

Professional Nursing

• Course Tuition: $250
• Delivery: Online learning with online classroom session(s)
• Length: 6 weeks
• Textbook: No textbook required
• Outline: Professional Nursing course outline

Professional Communication

• Course Tuition: $300
• Delivery: Online learning with in-person lab sessions
• Length: 6 weeks
• Textbook: Mallette, C., & Yonge, O. (2022). Arnold and Boggs's interpersonal relationships: Professional communication skills for Canadian nurses. Elsevier.
• Outline: Professional Communication course outline

Health Assessment

• Course Tuition: $550
• Delivery: Online learning with in-person lab sessions
• Length: 9 weeks
• Textbook: Jarvis. C. (2019). Physical examination and health assessment (3rd Cdn. ed.). Saunders Elsevier.
• Outline: Health Assessment course outline

Changes in Health and Therapeutic Interventions I

• Course Tuition: $250
• Delivery: Online learning with online classroom session(s)
• Length: 9 weeks
• Textbook: No textbook required
• Outline: Changes in Health and Therapeutic Interventions I course outline

Pharmacology

• Course Tuition: $250
• Delivery: Online learning with online classroom session(s)
• Length: 9 weeks
• Textbook: Sealock, K., & Seneviratne, C. (2021). Lilley’s pharmacology for Canadian health care practice (4th ed.). Elsevier Canada.
• Outline: Pharmacology course outline

Medication Administration

• Course Tuition: $300
• Delivery: Online learning with in-person lab sessions
• Length: 5 weeks
• Textbook: No textbook required
• Outline: Medication Administration course outline

Clinical Nursing Skills

• Course Tuition: $550
• Delivery: Online learning with in-person lab sessions
• Length: 8 weeks
• Textbook: No textbook required
• Outline: Clinical Nursing Skills course outline

Changes in Health and Therapeutic Interventions II

• Course Tuition: $300
• Delivery: Online learning with online classroom session(s) and in-person simulation sessions
• Length: 8 weeks
• Textbook: No textbook required
• Outline: Changes in Health and Therapeutic Interventions II course outline

Clinical Course: Medical-Surgical

• Course Tuition:
  • Instructor-led and preceptored clinicals: $800
  • Preceptored clinical only: $500
• Delivery:
  • 160 hours of instructor-led clinical followed by 160 hours of a preceptored clinical in an acute adult medical-surgical care setting
  • Learners must complete requirements as indicated on their referrals; this may include both course components, the preceptored clinical component only, or other variations
• Length: 320 hours: 160 hours instructor-led, 160 hours preceptored clinical
• Textbook: No textbook required
• Outline: Clinical Course: Medical-Surgical course outline

Specialty Courses

Child Health

• Course Tuition:
  • Theory portion: $200
  • Clinical portion: $350
• Delivery: Online learning
• Length: 6–8 weeks
• Textbook: Hockenberry, M., & Wilson, D. (2022). Wong’s essentials of pediatric nursing (11th ed.). Elsevier.
• Outline: Child Health course outline

Maternal-Infant Health

• Course Tuition:
  • Theory portion: $200
  • Clinical portion: $350
• Delivery: Online learning
• Length: 6–8 weeks
• Textbook: Evans, R., Evans, E., Brown, Y., & Orshan, S. (2015). Canadian maternity, newborn, & women’s health nursing (2nd ed.). Lippincott, Williams & Williams.
• Outline: Maternal-Infant Health course outline

Psychiatric Mental Health

• Course Tuition:
  • Theory portion: $200
  • Clinical portion: $350
• Delivery: Online learning
• Length: 6–8 weeks
• Textbook: Pollard, C. L., & Jakubec, S. L. (2023). Varcarolis’s Canadian psychiatric mental health nursing: A clinical approach (3rd ed.). Elsevier Canada.
• Outline:  Psychiatric Mental Health course outline

Purchasing Textbooks

Textbooks can be purchased new or used. Some options to purchase new books include:

• Dalhousie Health Sciences Bookstore: In person at 6136 University Ave., Halifax, NS, over the phone at 1-902-494-3020, or  order online
• Directly from the publishers:  Elsevier Mosby or   Lippincott, William & Wilkins
• Online through websites such as Amazon or Chapters/Indigo