1) Candidates for the PhD in Nursing will be considered for admission under the general regulations of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. Applicants must have completed an honors baccalaureate degree and a master’s degree in nursing or a related discipline (e.g., education, health administration, psychology) with a minimum overall average of 75% (B+). Students intending to include a clinical practice component in their research must be registered as nurses in the jurisdiction where the clinical component of the research will take place. 2) Several key areas of knowledge are required: research methods, statistics, and nursing theory. Applicants who do not have a master’s degree in nursing and/or whose knowledge of research methods or statistics is deficient may be asked to take qualifying courses such as NSG 5130 (Development of knowledge and theory in nursing as a discipline), EDU 6191 (Methods and Interpretation in Quantitative Research II).