Program Distinctions

Flexible & Individualized Online Learning

  • Choose an MSN intake that fits your life: either 100% online or blended learning.
  • Take electives that suit your career goals: Nursing Education, Nursing Leadership, Advanced Nursing Practice, Indigenous Nursing; or directed studies in Spirituality & Health or Planetary & Global Health.
  • For your Capstone, choose a thesis on a topic of interest OR a non-thesis, cohort-based knowledge translation (KT) project that is relevant to your clinical practice.

Thriving Learning Community

  • Be part of a thriving, supportive, collaborative, and global learning community.
  • Flourish under mentorships with renowned professors and practice leaders who make time for you one-on-one.
  • Benefit from the optional one-week health policy residency while staying at TWU’s Laurentian Leadership Centre, blocks from Capitol Hill in Ottawa.
  • Engage in the ethos of a Christian liberal arts university, with conversations about spiritual–intellectual integration relevant to the profession of nursing.

Build a Better Future Together

  • Become a nursing health-care leader, nurse educator, or advanced practice nurse who influences change in health care.
  • Contribute to health equity and social justice as a global citizen addressing humanity’s most pressing needs.
  • Participate in a learning community and a journey of reconciliation that aligns with nursing's responsibility to Indigenous cultural safety, cultural humility, and anti-racism.