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