2017-2018 Graduate Catalog

Nursing Educational Leadership, Ph.D.

Program Description

This Nursing Educational Leadership is a fifty-nine credit program of study for the preparation of nurses with expertise in the professorial role. The program is comprised of twenty courses leading the graduate to be competent as a scholar, educator and clinician. It is a four-year program plan of study geared to the three perspectives of the professorial role: expert researcher, academic leader and accomplished clinician (NLN, 2006). Core values support the respect for and implementation of a curriculum addressing care, diversity, ethics, excellence, holism, integrity and patient/client-centeredness. Both the didactic and clinical components of the program foster the integration of concepts sustaining nursing's context and environment, quality, safety, relationship centered care, interdisciplinary teamwork and the multidimensional development of the nursing educational leader (NLN, 2010, AACN 2006).

Program Requirements

  • 59 credits
  • Comprehensive Examination
  • Dissertation

Year 1--20 credits

NURS 6000PHILOSOPHY OF NURSING SCIENCE

3

NURS 6100CONCEPT ANALYSIS AND MAPPING

3

NURS 6200HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF NURSING EDUCATION

3

NURS 6210NURSING CURRICULUM DESIGN

3

NURS 6220EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP ROLES

3

NURS 6120LEGAL AND ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS IN RESEARCH

2

NURS 6300EXPERTISE IN CLINICAL PRACTICE WITH DIVERSE, UNDERSERVED AND VULNERABLE POPULATIONS

3

Year 2--21 credits

NURS 6110QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH

3

PSY 6111ADVANCED STATISTICS I

3

NURS 6115QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

3

PSY 6116

NURS 6320

NURS 6130GRANT WRITING and FISCAL ESSENTIALS

3

NURS 6310INFORMATICS: SAFETY, QUALITY, OUTCOMES AND EVIDENCE

3

Year 3--12 credits

NURS 7210TEST DESIGNS AND OUTCOMES MEASUREMENT

3

NURS 7220DIDACTIC AND CLINICAL NURSING EDUCATION PRACTICUM

3

NURS 7230

NURS 7200CURRICULUM INNOVATION

3

Year 4--6 credits

NURS 8000PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR INITIATIVE

3

NURS 8500Principal Investigator Dissertation Colloquium

3

Total Credit Hours: 59