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At Queens University of Charlotte, we provide personalized education with a global perspective. Our online programs are founded on values we’ve held on campus since 1857, emphasizing experiential learning and meaningful relationships between students and faculty.

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At Queens, you always get the best of both worlds: We combine theoretical knowledge with practical experience, blend structured curricula with flexible online study, and complement a liberal arts core with rigorous career preparation.

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• MS in Nursing (MSN): Nursing Informatics Specialization

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We’re dedicated to transformative educational experiences. Whether you learn online or on campus, we keep our class sizes small so faculty can focus on your needs.

A Queens education is rooted in ethical citizenship within a global community. In addition to our student focus, we promote integrity, respect, stewardship, creativity, innovation, and service.

When you graduate from Queens, you’ll not only have gained the knowledge needed to advance in your field, but also have broadened your personal horizons.

“ My degree helped me enhance my understanding of my identity and learn how I could construct the person I wanted to become in the workplace and in society. This learning was crucial to bettering myself with my colleagues and my loved ones. ” – Vanessa Faura, Knight School of Communication

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Queens online students receive personalized attention and an educational experience that’s just as rigorous and rewarding as our on-campus programs. Enjoy the flexibility to study on your schedule, communicate easily with instructors and peers, and receive 24/7 technical support.

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Throughout your time at Queens, you’ll benefit from the personal guidance and attention from our expert support team of academic coordinators. From enrollment to tuition guidance and assistance with your online studies, you’ll be in good hands.

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Queens University of Charlotte is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) to award baccalaureate and masters degrees. Questions about the accreditation of Queens University of Charlotte may be directed in writing to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, GA 30033-4097, by calling (404) 679-4500, or by using information available on SACSCOC’s website ( www.sacscoc.org )

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Doctor of Philosophy in Health Quality

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The PhD in Health Quality (PhDHQ) will prepare experts who will improve the delivery of healthcare through teaching, developing new methodologies and theoretical frameworks, as well as testing innovation in the field of health quality. The PhDHQ program offers a collaborative approach to comprehend and address the complexities within the healthcare system. Graduates of the program will be prepared to take senior leadership roles in health quality portfolios in practice and policy settings across Canada and will also be educated to assume tenure track positions in university programs. While the degree is research intensive, it will also be grounded in pragmatism and will help prepare independent researchers for quality improvement research and developing leadership capabilities in health settings.

The PhDHQ program is a four-year, interdisciplinary program using a combination of synchronous and asynchronous study as well as interactive online videoconferencing. The PhDHQ program consists of five (5) courses in year one, including an internship over the summer months. The internship will be tailored to the learners’ interests and to broadening their perspectives on health quality. In the fall term of year two, students complete the comprehensive exam. In the winter and summer terms of year two (2) students will focus on the development of their thesis proposal and complete HQRS 905 Current Topics in Health Quality. After a successful oral examination of the thesis proposal, students submit their project for ethics review and then proceed to data collection, analysis, and writing. The thesis requires independent, original research and makes up at least two-thirds of the time normally required for the program. Upper year students are expected to visit campus at least once per year; students are required to attend the final thesis examination in person. Nurtured by close mentoring relationships with faculty supervisors, the Queen’s model is to ensure graduate students present and publish their research, and normally complete their program in 4 years.

PhD Public Health Sciences

 OUR PhD PROGRAM 2023

The Department of Public Health Sciences has broadened its PhD program to include all areas of research expertise represented in our faculty including, but not limited to, epidemiology, biostatistics, qualitative, mixed- and community-based methods, the use of health and public-health services, program evaluation, clinical epidemiology, health equity, global health, indigenous health, and health economics.

Our programs place an emphasis on close faculty-student relations and a philosophy that puts the student first. Through coursework, thesis opportunities, and involvement in the academic life of our department, our students graduate with an in-depth understanding of public health research. Our graduates are able to function as independent investigators in academic, health-research institutes and health-research government agencies, or as emerging public-health leaders in government or the private sector.

In the coming year, our PhD program in the Department of Public Health Sciences at Queen’s University has a number of exciting opportunities for qualified applicants. The following members of our department have each expressed an interest in supervising a new PhD student:  

Dr. Susan Bartels is a Clinician-Scientist in the Department of Emergency Medicine with a cross appointment to Public Health Sciences. Her research focuses on the health and well-being of women and children affected by humanitarian crises around the globe. Dr. Bartels is interested in the social determinants of health and uses innovative research methods to provide evidence intended to inform policy and programming that will improve health outcomes and mitigate the risks of natural disasters, armed conflict and forced displacement.  

Dr. Susan Brogly is an epidemiologist with research interests in the area of perinatal epidemiology, surgical outcomes, and advanced epidemiologic methods. Dr. Brogly used both population-based administrative health care data (ICES, Medicaid) and primary data collection in her studies.  

Dr. Steven Brooks is a Clinician-Scientist and Emergency Physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine who conducts research in the areas of cardiac arrest and resuscitation. Dr. Brooks may have availability for a PhD student willing to work with the Canadian COVID-19 Emergency Department Rapid Response Network. This is a developing registry funded by CIHR and the Ontario government, tracking patients with suspected and confirmed COVID-19 who attend one of 50 EDs in the country.

Dr. Bingshu Chen is a biostatistician with an interest in survival analysis and generalized linear models. He has developed biomarker threshold models to predict treatment benefit in cancer clinical trials. His other research interests include analysis of health economic data, statistics computing and missing data problems.  

Dr. Anne Duffy is a Clinician-Scientist. She has longitudinal data spanning two decades in high-risk offspring of bipolar parents and has up to two years of psychosocial, clinical and familial data from a representative cohort of undergraduate university students to understand mental health and academic outcomes. These databases provide several opportunities that would make for an interesting thesis including using joint modelling, multi-state and survival analysis. Further information on Dr. Duffy’s research can be found at: https://www.mdco.ca/research/ .

Dr. Jennifer Flemming is a Clinician-Scientist who studies the link between cirrhosis and biliary tract cancer and the burden of chronic liver disease and cirrhosis in Ontario. She uses large population-based databases housed at ICES. Her goal is to improve management strategies for Canadians with liver disease.

Dr. Ana Johnson is a health economist who conducts economic evaluations of health care programs, cost-effectiveness analyses, assessments of resource allocations and use of health technologies.

Dr. Will King is a molecular epidemiologist whose research program seeks to identify modifiable risk factors for cancer. Dr. King studies intermediate markers of cancer risk and genetic susceptibility to better understand environment-cancer relationships.

Dr. Diane Lougheed is a Clinician-Scientist with a research interest in asthma and the development of better information technologies to improve the care of patients with asthma. Dr. Lougheed conducts health services and outcomes research and guideline implementation research in asthma and often uses the ICES data holdings to conduct her work.

Dr. Zihang Lu is a Biostatistician. His research focuses on developing and applying statistical and machine learning methods to answer clinical and epidemiological research questions. His current research interests are in longitudinal data, survival data and high-dimensional data modeling. He is also interested in Bayesian statistics, causal inference and data fusion.

Dr. Maria Ospina is an associate professor with the Department of Public Health Sciences at Queen’s University, and a clinical epidemiologist, and population-health researcher in the areas of perinatal and early childhood health. Her research program (DMETRE) uses a life-course approach and a variety of epidemiological methods (observational studies, systematic reviews, GIS analysis, mixed-methods designs), to assess the developmental origins of health inequalities, and how critical periods of human development such as pregnancy and the first 1,000 days of life influence future health.

Dr. Paul Peng is a is a biostatistician with research interests in survival analysis with a focus on cure models, longitudinal and panel data modeling, statistical computation methods for big data, biostatistical methods for epidemiological and clinical trial research.

Dr. William Pickett is in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at Brock University and is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at Queen’s University, and an Adjunct Professor in the College of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. He is a trained epidemiologist whose research interests include: injury and violence prevention; injury and illness in rural and farm populations; and health and its social determinants in adolescent populations, with a primary focus on pediatric violence and injury. Using public health surveillance, analytical and experimental epidemiology, and mixed methods approaches, this work has provided critical insight for policy/health promotion initiatives in Canada, the US and Europe.

Dr. Amrita Roy is a family physician and MD-PhD clinician-scientist in the Departments of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences at Queen’s. A settler ally with a research focus in Indigenous health, Dr. Roy works in close collaboration with Indigenous peoples in community-engaged research centred on the principles of Ownership, Control, Access, and Possession (OCAP). Apart from Indigenous health, Dr. Roy’s other areas of research interest include immigrant and refugee health, women’s health, youth health, and global health. Methodologically, Dr. Roy has expertise in quantitative, qualitative, mixed- and multiple-methods approaches to health research, in addition to community-based and participatory research approaches.  Fall 2023 PhD opportunity with Dr. Roy:  Opportunity for a PhD student starting fall 2023 in a CIHR-funded Indigenous health research project on sleep and mental health, in partnership with Akwesasne Mohawk Nation .

Dr. Sahar Saeed is an epidemiologist and health-services researcher. Dr. Saeed primarily investigates retention and access to health care among populations including persons living with HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C and chronic liver disease. She uses primary data collection, population-based administrative health-care data and novel surveillance tools (GPS) to answer her research questions. For more information on her research interest, visit her website at Epidemiologist | Sahar Saeed .   Fall 2023 PhD opportunity with Dr. Saeed and Dr. Stoner

Dr. Bradley Stoner is Professor and Head, Department of Public Health Sciences and Professor of Medicine at Queen’s University. An infectious disease physician and medical anthropologist, Dr. Stoner’s research focuses on the epidemiology, clinical care, control and prevention of sexually transmitted infections (STI) including HIV. Fall 2023 PhD opportunity with Dr. Saeed and Dr. Stoner

Dr. Wei Tu  is a biostatistician with research interests in data science and its application in health care. His research focuses on translating different sources of high-dimensional data into informed clinical decision-making. The topics he is working on include personalized medicine, data privacy and causal inference.  

Dr. Maria Velez is a Clinician-Scientist with research interests in reproductive and perinatal epidemiology. Her current research program focuses on infertility and pregnancy outcomes, and the reproductive health of young women with cancer. She uses population-based cohort studies including databases housed at ICES.  

Dr. Paul Villeneuve is an environmental and occupational epidemiologist. His research program is focused on quantifying the health effects from exposure to outdoor air pollution, noise, low levels of radiation, as well as the benefits of urban greenness and walkability.  In addition to carrying out spatiotemporal exposure studies in Canada and Grenada (West Indies), he also uses large population-based databases housed in Statistics Canada’s Research Data Centers, and ICES.

If you have a demonstrable interest in the work of one or more of these professors we encourage you to reach out to them to discuss the possibility of supervision.

Our PhD students are guaranteed minimum funding of $21K per year for four years with further income possibilities coming from Teaching Assistantships, Research Assistantships, or Research Fellowships. Many of our students receive national or provincial scholarships.

For further information about our PhD Program, you can contact the Program Director, Dr. Ian Janssen at [email protected]    or the Program Assistant, Ms. Sue Preston at [email protected] .  Note that all applicants must meet the entry requirements to the program:  https://phs.queensu.ca/programs-courses/degree-programs/phd-public-health-sciences/how-apply  

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Compassionate. Caring. Excellent. These three words best describe the nurses at Queen’s.

When you join Queen’s Nursing, you become part of a team of caregivers and leaders in your profession.

• Discover the Queen’s difference: The Queen’s Medical Center and Queen’s West O’ahu are the only facilities in the state with Magnet recognition, meaning our staff feels valued and provides the highest care to patients
• The Queen’s Medical Center is ranked the Best Hospital in Hawai‘i by U.S. News & World Report
• Queen’s is home to Hawai‘i’s first Comprehensive Stroke Center and the state’s only Level 1 Trauma Center

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“From the very first time Mark introduced himself, he made me feel like I was important and mattered. Mark's smile, wonderful and positive attitude, made me feel so much better. He always made sure that I was comfortable because of the pain I was feeling by caring so greatly about me as a patient, but also as a human being.” — Queen's patient

Queen’s Hawai‘i Nurse Residency Program

The Queen’s Health System is Hawai’i’s first and only PTAP accredited Nurse Residency Program. Supporting recent nursing graduates as they transition into their new careers is essential to the success of Queen’s Nursing. We offer residency experience in an acute care hospital setting to help you gain the knowledge and tools to jumpstart your career.

Queen’s Hawai‘i Nurse Residency Program is offered five times over the course of the year: January, March, May, July, and September. Applications will be accepted beginning two months before the program starts.

Through the Hawai‘i State Center for Nursing Collaborative, the Queen’s Nurse Residency Program is part of the University Health System Consortium and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, Nurse Residency Program.

Our curriculum is offered via monthly seminars utilizing a variety of learning opportunities, such as simulation, case studies, reflective practice, group discussion, and lectures.

We have also launched a mentorship program to help you as you transition into a confident and competent nurse during your first year.

Experienced nurses with different backgrounds from The Queen’s Medical Center serve as Resident Facilitators to mentor and coach you as you begin your nursing career.

To qualify, you must either:

• Have a Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing, or
• Be a Registered Nurse in Hawai‘i with less than 1 year of nursing experience

The Queen’s Nurse Residency Program has three primary objectives:

• Help you achieve autonomy in providing direct care to patients.
• Teach you with research-backed evidence that you can incorporate into your nursing practices.
• Build a community among you and your nursing peers.

Queen’s Nurse Residency curriculum covers a wide range of topics including:

• Evidence-based Practice
• Interdisciplinary Simulation Experience
• Ethical Issues
• Cultural Diversity
• Dealing with Death and Dying

Professional Practice Model

A Nursing Professional Practice Model is a framework that outlines the foundational principles, values, and beliefs that guide nursing practice within a specific health care organization. It serves as a blueprint for nursing professionals, shaping their roles, responsibilities, and interactions within the health care environment.

For The Queen’s Health System, a new model crafted by the collective vision of the nurses, vividly portrays this profound dedication to serving patients. This model encapsulates the essence of nursing through a synergy of scientific excellence, demanding high-quality, evidence-based, shared decision making, advocacy, and innovative care, and the art of nursing, which fosters healing environments characterized by loving kindness, inclusion, compassion, presence, and holistic care.

Crucially, the Professional Practice Model places the patients’ healing, dignity, hope, love, and acceptance at its core, embodying the vision of Queen Emma for all the people of Hawai‘i and illustrating how each nurse actively realizes this vision in their daily practice.

Shared Decision Making: The Queen's Nursing Vision

Nursing at Queen’s is a center of excellence for professional nursing practice. It is known for distinction in clinical nursing practice, innovative strategies in nursing education, and collaborative research which extends the bounds of knowledge.

Shared decision making (SDM)  at The Queen’s Health System is a model that empowers nurses at all levels to take ownership and accountability for their nursing professional practice. Queen’s has 11 organizational level SDM councils that align with the strategic priorities of nursing.

Unit and department-based practice councils drives shared decision making in operational and professional practice at the unit level. Through collaboration with leaders and inter-professional partners, Queen’s nurses provide the latest and superior patient care.

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Queen’s Nursing Career Development Opportunities

We’re pleased to offer ongoing professional development programs to our nursing staff to help you grow in your skills as a nurse and advance your career at Queen’s.

Professional Development

Our Professional Development Program enables you to participate in workshops, conferences, and courses on nursing. You can receive special certifications that further your career and build skills to improve your practice.

Continuing Education

Queen’s Tuition Reimbursement Program allows you to earn credit from courses at fully accredited institutions of higher learning. We believe that continuing education is critical to your professional success and promotability as a nurse.

Eligibility for continuing education funds are available to you after only one year of employment.

Contact Human Resources at 808-691-4627 for more information.

Employee Benefits

As a nursing professional at Queen’s, you will receive the following benefits:

Comprehensive Health Coverage

Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) plans from Queen’s give you medical, surgical, and hospital coverage. With unlimited lifetime maximums, our PPOs also come with a robust prescription drug plan and vision benefits.

Dental Plans

Queen’s participates in the Hawaii Dental Service plan, which provides coverage for routine exams and cleaning, along with other dental services like Preventative Care, Oral Surgery, Restorative Dentistry, Endodontics, Periodontics, and Prosthodontics.

Supplemental Health Care Spending Accounts

Queen’s covers eligible health expenses that fall outside of your health insurance plan, including co-payments, deductibles, and other out-of-pocket expenses you might incur.

Dependent Care Spending Account

Many of our employees caring for dependents on their own or with working spouses require care for their children or elderly dependents. Queen’s may offer reimbursement for day care fees, preschool, and after-school care.

You may also qualify for our dependent spending account as an employee caring for any dependents with mental or physical disabilities, or for an elderly dependent.

Retirement Savings

As an employee of The Queen’s Health System, you are eligible to enroll in our 401(k) retirement plan. You can elect to have up to 100% of your paycheck deducted and placed into a tax-sheltered retirement savings account. Queen’s offers matching contributions.

Paid Time Off

Paid Time Off (PTO) is an important part of our benefits package. In addition to the ten holidays per year that are automatically included in your PTO bank, you accumulate additional PTO according to your seniority.

Extended Sick Leave

In addition to PTO, you may be eligible to accrue time for Extended Sick Leave (ESL). ESL is kept in a separate bank from your PTO hours.

Life Insurance

Queen’s life insurance plans provide basic term life coverage for non-bargaining, full-time employees. You can also purchase Supplemental and Dependent Life Plans to augment your existing policy.

Long Term Disability Insurance

Our long term disability insurance gives you a portion of your income if you become disabled or unable to work. We base the benefit on your pre-disability monthly salary and coordinate it with any other income benefits you might receive (e.g. social security and worker’s compensation).

Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance

We provide accidental death and dismemberment insurance to be paid to your chosen beneficiary if you pass away or are injured as the result of an on-the-job accident.

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With a commitment to diversity and inclusion, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. Learn more about “ EEO is the Law  and  EEO is the Law Poster Supplement “

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When you join Queen’s Nursing, you’ll be an important member of our professional, caring team.

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If you have any questions, please contact our Human Resources Department at 808-691-4627 .

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Bachelor of Nursing Science

Queen's BNSc degree is a four year, full-time program. We offer evidence-based teaching and hands-on practical experience in both clinical and community health settings, producing experienced, confident nursing graduates. Upon passing the professional certification exam, you will be designated as a Registered Nurse, ready to make a positive impact on health care.

Questions about our programs? Contact the Undergraduate Office.

Program overview, about the program.

Queen's Nursing gives you the tools needed to become an experienced health professional. This baccalaureate degree program prepares you to take the NCLEX-RN exam, to secure registration to practice with the title 'Registered Nurse (RN)'. Our commitment to nursing science includes evidence-based teaching and rapid translation of research to nursing education and practice.

General Overview:

• Over years two, three and four you will complete rotating placements in a variety of community and clinical settings . These include hospitals, public health, clinics and other community agencies.
• Setting students up to succeed; we have dedicated program academic advisors and wellness counsellors available to support you as you complete the program. Queen's University also offers numerous academic and wellness supports to the nursing student community, including: Student Wellness Services ,  Student Academic Success Center ,  Student Affairs   and  Peer Support .
• By 2025, 20% of Queen's health sciences courses will be interprofessional ; nursing, rehab, and medical students will learn together, reflecting the realities of our health systems.
• Students can customize their degree by applying for research or simulation lab assistant positions, choosing to take the Certificate in Business , Certificate in Law , Arts and Science certificates, or by completing a dual degree in Arts and Sciences.
• You can choose to complete some of your electives at Bader College, Queen's University in East Sussex, England.

Queen’s nurses work all over the world in many settings, including hospitals, community organizations, and in research, education and government. The program builds a strong foundation for future graduate-level studies, including becoming a nurse practitioner (NP).

Please read our Statement on Accommodation of Students with Disabilities . Learn more about the Essential Requirements for studying in an Ontario nursing program.

First year courses will cover many of the fundamentals of this professional program. Students are automatically registered into core courses. Electives are not required for first year. Students begin preparing for the clinical practice environment in first year by interviewing people at the GSK Clinical Education Centre (CEC), and by learning health and physical assessment skills at the CEC and in the simulation lab.

First year courses are:

• Professional Relationships
• Nutrition and Health
• Introduction to Statistics
• Health Assessment
• Introduction to Biochemistry
• Introductory Human Anatomy
• Philosophy and Healthcare
• Microbiology for Nursing Students
• Principles of Psychology

Brief descriptions of the courses offered can be found in the current Academic Calendar. Course offerings and program requirements are subject to change each year.

Second year continues to cover the fundamentals of nursing. Clinical placements start in second year with students having a two hour lab session and an 8 hour clinical shift each week, both fall and winter terms, in a health care agency.. Students are automatically registered into core courses. One 3.0 credit unit elective course fits into the Winter term of second year.

• Medical-Surgical Nursing I
• Nursing Practicum: Care of Chronic and/or Acutely Ill Adults
• Gerontological Nursing
• Pharmacology for Health Sciences
• Nursing Research
• Mammalian Physiology
• Developmental Psychology
• One Elective

Students are automatically registered into core courses. In third year, every student will have a rotation in children’s, maternity, mental health and medical/surgical areas. There is room for 3 electives (3.0 credit units each) in this year.

• Medical-Surgical Nursing II
• Family-Centred Maternal and Newborn Nursing Care & Family-Centred Pediatric Nursing Care
• Nursing Practicum: Medical-Surgical and Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
• Nursing Practicum: Maternal and Child, Family-Centred Nursing Care
• Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
• 3 Electives

Students are automatically registered into core courses. The focus of fall term practicum is Community health promotion. In winter term, students complete the final practicum in a health care agency; students can apply to take their final clinical placement anywhere in Canada. The final practicum is 400 hours of clinical practice time. There is room for 1 elective in Fall term.

• Concepts of Acute and Critical Illness
• Current Issues in Nursing and Health Care
• Community Health Promotion Theory
• Integrated Practicum
• Practicum in Community Health Promotion
• Management and Leadership in Health Care

Clinical Placement Information

Immunization requirements, awards & bursaries.

Students apply to Queen’s Nursing through the OUAC (Ontario University Application Centre) website. Secondary School prerequisites include English 4U, Biology 4U, Chemistry 4U, and a 4U mathematics course. Two additional U or M level courses are also required. A minimum grade of 75% is necessary in English 4U. Applicants outside of Ontario may have additional requirements.

Application Deadline: February 1

We welcome and encourage applications from all equity seeking individuals. Queen's offers a number of additional and alternative admissions pathways that nursing applicants may apply through, including the:

• Indigenous students admission pathway
• First-generation student admission pathway  (for students whose parents did not attend post-secondary).

Candidates must meet the general admission requirements for each program and deadlines for undergraduate admission.

I would like a tour of the School of Nursing

We would be happy to meet with you, answer any questions you may have and give you a tour of the nursing facilities.  Please write to [email protected] to arrange a visit to the School of Nursing.  We recommend you also contact  Queen’s campus tours  and work in a tour of the campus also while you are visiting.

Do I require First Aid and CPR certification, or a criminal records check?

Yes, you do! You require first-aid and CPR HCP (health care provider level).  You must take in-person classes and they should be dated after May 1st of the year you are entering the program. You will receive an email from us, once admitted, advising you how to submit these certifications. 

You are also required to provide a criminal records check. You will receive information about this from the School of Nursing once you accept your admissions offer.  If you require a letter from Queen's Nursing to give to the police station, please email [email protected] and we will provide you with this letter. 

Can the program be completed online and/or part-time?

The program is full-time (four years) and not available as an online degree. All courses are in-person unless specifically stated in advance.

Can I transfer into the program if I’m enrolled at another university (AST)?

Please see our Undergraduate Admissions page about external transfers to our program. Applicants with previous university course credits are also encouraged to check out our Accelerated Standing Track BNSc program (2 years).

Do I need to take the CASPer test to apply to Queen's Nursing?

No, the CASPer test is not required for admission to this program.

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The Queens University Baccalaureate Nursing Programs (Bachelor of Nursing Science and Bachelor of Nursing Science - Accelerated Standing Track) are approved by the College of Nurses of Ontario ( www.cno.org ). Current graduates from these programs are eligible to apply for registration as a Registered Nurse in Ontario.

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What You’ll Study

Are you seeking a fast track to advanced nursing roles? The Queens RN to MSN pathway prepares you to succeed as a nurse leader or educator without BSN degree requirements. The Presbyterian School of Nursing designed this program to offer you a clear, accelerated path to a master’s degree. Get the flexibility to pursue your next nursing position as you continue thriving in your current job. Like the traditional MSN degree, the RN to MSN degree allows you to specialize in an area that interests you.

Program Highlights

Number of credits: 42 credit hours

Number of courses needed to graduate: 14

Average Completion Time: 2.5 years

Cost per credit: $700

Flexible Program: Online and asynchronous

Course Length: 8 weeks

No BSN Requirement

How Can You Use This Degree?

MSN graduates will achieve more advanced positions and can work in a wide variety of environments.

• Clinical Nurse Leader
• Nurse Director
• Nursing Educator
• Nursing Informatics Specialist
• Research Nurse

Highlighted Courses

• Population Health Nursing (NUR 500)
• Theoretical Foundations (NUR 612)
• Health Policy (NUR 624)
• Informatics in Health Care (NUR 628)

Program Contact

Gary Gilleece, MBA, M.Ed

Graduate Recruiter, Blair College of Health

[email protected] 704-337-2407

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Accreditation.

The RN to MSN degree program at Queens University of Charlotte is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). For more information regarding accreditation, please visit our webpage .

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