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The goal of the MN program at the University of New Brunswick is to prepare nurses for advanced professional roles through course work, as well as meaningful engagement with partners/stakeholders.

The MN program is designed to equip students with an integrative knowledge of nursing leadership, research, theory, and practice. Students are encouraged to design, with an academic advisor, a program of study that will enable them to assume advanced professional roles in their area of specific interest.

While in the program, students will have opportunities to develop leadership capacity by exploring issues and challenges within health and health care. Recent MN graduates have gone on to complete doctoral programs or to assume leadership positions within the healthcare sector, government, and non-governmental organizations. Graduates of the nurse practitioner stream are working in a variety of primary healthcare centers across the province and Canada.

Students who register in this stream may have an opportunity to work collaboratively with a practice partner to meet their learning needs. The nature and scope of the project will be determined through a collaborative process involving the student, partner and a faculty member. Students also have the opportunity to complete a more traditional thesis.

Examples include:

Addressing a specific concern of nursing practice by engaging in policy development.

Developing a clinical pathway incorporating the best available evidence.

Collaborating with a practice partner to propose and complete an evidence-informed, action-oriented, collaborative, community-based intervention.

The Thesis/Report stream is made up of five required core courses, four stream-specific courses and a thesis or final project. It is offered by distributed and distance learning to our sites in Fredericton, Moncton, Saint John and Humber College.

Research areas

Chronic illness

Analysis of administrative data to examine attainment of quality indicators for the management of patients with hip fractures in the emergency department

Health in LGBT communities

Communicable diseases (HIV)

Community health workers experiences working with people who use drugs

Violence and healthy living in the aftermath of abuse

Patient-centered, upstream interventions to improve COPD care

Indigenous health and wellness

Living with eating disorders

Mobile senior's wellness network: Reaching rural New Brunswickers

Healthy Aging

Refugee well-being

The housing needs of older lesbians in the Maritimes