Guidelines and forms

Find all the essential documents you’ll need as a graduate student in Nursing—program guidelines, thesis procedures, practical tools, and administrative forms.

Student guide, general documents and forms

  1. Student guide (PDF, 328 KB)
  2. Annual research progress report (PDF, 796 KB)
  3. Request for extension (PDF, 299 KB)
  4. Request for leave of absence
  5. Request for deferrer mark (PDF, 518 KB)
  6. Modification/cancellation (PDF, 127 KB)
  7. Request for diploma and registration for degree (PDF, 250 KB)
  8. Update of Record (PDF, 177 KB)

Directed Study (NSG 6999)

  1. Directed study (NSG6999) policy and procedures (July 2016) (PDF, 11.8 KB)
  2. Agreement form for the course NSG6999 (PDF, 224 KB)

Thesis documents

  1. Nomination of Thesis Advisory Committee Members (PDF, 267 KB)
  2. Thesis Proposal Approval Guidelines (PDF, 171 KB)
  3. Thesis Proposal Approval Form (July 2018) (PDF, 155 KB)
  4. Guidelines for Monograph Thesis and Thesis by Article(s) (July 2018) (PDF, 96.1 KB)
  5. Statement of contributions form (July 2018) (PDF, 81.2 KB)
  6. Guidelines for Thesis Process (download PDF version) (PDF, 248 KB)
  7. Student Path – MScN Thesis Examination at a Distance (October 2023) (PDF, 158 KB)
  8. List of examiners for the evaluation of the thesis (PDF, 218 KB)
  9. Examiner Requirements for thesis examinations (December 2018) (PDF, 199 KB)
  10. Thesis Advisory Committee (TAC) Report (November 2020) (PDF, 178 KB)

Doctoral research proposal examination documents (NSG 9997)

  1. Committee composition form (PDF, 187 KB)
  2. Guidelines (PDF, 280 KB)
  3. Examination report (PDF, 274 KB)

PHCNP program documents

  1. Program plan (nurse practitioners) (PDF, 117 KB)
  2. PHCNP Program Learning Outcomes Self-Assessment Form (PDF, 197 KB)

Master's program

  1. Program plan template MScN – Thesis option (2019) - Full time
  2. Program plan template MScN – Clinical option (2019) - Full time
  3. Program plan template MScN – Thesis option (2019) - Part-time
  4. Program plan template MScN – Clinical option (2019) - Part-time
  5. Program plan form MScN (PDF, 401 KB)
  6. Student checklist for first meeting with MScN academic advisor (PDF, 142 KB)
  7. Request for option change – MScN thesis to clinical project / MScN clinical project to thesis (PDF, 216 KB)
  8. MScN thesis vs clinical project decision aid (February 2021) (PDF, 191 KB)
  9. MScN Program Learning Outcomes Self-Assessment Form (PDF, 201 KB)

Doctoral program documents

  1. Program plan PhD (PDF, 274 KB)
  2. PhD Program Learning Outcomes Self-Assessment Form (March 2021) (PDF, 209 KB)

Fast track to PhD documents

  1. Fast-track PhD Reverse to Complete MScN (November 2020) (PDF, 190 KB)
  2. Fast-track decision aid (February 2021) (PDF, 234 KB)

Other forms developed by the Office of the Vice-Provost, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies are available on their website.