diff --git a/ionic/components/nav/nav-push.ts b/ionic/components/nav/nav-push.ts
index 3917283d6d..c592978998 100644
--- a/ionic/components/nav/nav-push.ts
+++ b/ionic/components/nav/nav-push.ts
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ import {NavController} from './nav-controller';
 @Directive({
   selector: '[nav-push]',
   properties: [
-    'navInstructions: navPush'
+    'instruction: navPush',
+    'params: navParams'
   ],
   host: {
     '(click)': 'onClick($event)',
@@ -23,23 +24,15 @@ export class NavPush {
     this.nav = nav;
   }
 
-  set navInstructions(instructions) {
-    if (instructions instanceof Array) {
-      if (instructions.length > 2) {
+  onClick(event) {
+    if (this.instruction instanceof Array) {
+      if (this.instruction.length > 2) {
         throw 'Too many [nav-push] arguments, expects [View, { params }]'
       }
-      this.destination = instructions[0];
-      this.navParams = instructions[1];
+      this.nav.push(this.instruction[0], this.instruction[1]);
     } else {
-      this.destination = instructions;
+      this.nav.push(this.instruction, this.params);
     }
-
-    //let annotations = Reflect.getMetadata('annotations', view);
-    // TODO check to make sure destination is a Component/IonicView?
-  }
-
-  onClick(event) {
-    this.nav.push(this.destination, this.navParams);
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/ionic/components/nav/test/basic/index.ts b/ionic/components/nav/test/basic/index.ts
index a3e2a27396..7f0c1a7021 100644
--- a/ionic/components/nav/test/basic/index.ts
+++ b/ionic/components/nav/test/basic/index.ts
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ import {NavParams, NavController} from 'ionic/ionic';
     '<ion-content padding>' +
       '<p>{{title}}</p>' +
       '<p><button id="from1To2" primary (click)="push()">Push (Go to 2nd)</button></p>' +
-      '<p><button [nav-push]="[pushPage, {id: 42}]">Push w/ nav-push (Go to 2nd)</button></p>' +
+      '<p><button [nav-push]="[pushPage, {id: 42}]">Push w/ nav-push array (Go to 2nd)</button></p>' +
+      '<p><button [nav-push]="pushPage" [nav-params]="{id:40}">Push w/ nav-push and nav-params (Go to 2nd)</button></p>' +
       '<p><button (click)="setViews()">setViews() (Go to 3rd, no history)</button></p>' +
       '<icon class="ion-ios-arrow-back"></icon>' +
       '<f></f><f></f><f></f><f></f><f></f><f></f><f></f><f></f><f></f><f></f>' +