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 6000 | PHILOSOPHY OF NURSING SCIENCE | 3 |
| NURS 6100 | CONCEPT ANALYSIS AND MAPPING | 3 |
| NURS 6200 | HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF NURSING EDUCATION | 3 |
| NURS 6210 | NURSING CURRICULUM DESIGN | 3 |
| NURS 6220 | EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP ROLES | 3 |
| NURS 6120 | LEGAL AND ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS IN RESEARCH | 2 |
| NURS 6300 | EXPERTISE IN CLINICAL PRACTICE WITH DIVERSE, UNDERSERVED AND VULNERABLE POPULATIONS | 3 |
Year 2--21 credits
| NURS 6110 | QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH | 3 |
| PSY 6111 | ADVANCED STATISTICS I | 3 |
| NURS 6115 | QUALITATIVE RESEARCH | 3 |
| PSY 6116 | | |
| NURS 6320 | | |
| NURS 6130 | GRANT WRITING AND FISCAL ESSENTIALS | 3 |
| NURS 6310 | INFORMATICS: SAFETY, QUALITY, OUTCOMES AND EVIDENCE | 3 |
Year 3--12 credits
| NURS 7210 | TEST DESIGNS AND OUTCOMES MEASUREMENT | 3 |
| NURS 7220 | DIDACTIC AND CLINICAL NURSING EDUCATION PRACTICUM | 3 |
| NURS 7230 | | |
| NURS 7200 | CURRICULUM INNOVATION | 3 |
Year 4--6 credits
| NURS 8000 | PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR INITIATIVE | 3 |
| NURS 8500 | PRIN INVESTIGATOR DISSERTATION COLLOQUIUM | 3 |
Total Credit Hours: 59