PhD in Nursing Program Course Plan
Plan of Study
The nursing curriculum requires 46 credits of required course work, 6 credits of electives (for 52 total credits in coursework), and 20 credits of dissertation work (for a grand total of 72 credits). The curriculum is designed to be delivered over 7 semesters, with additional time which is variable for the dissertation work. Focus is on core areas of nursing science (N), research (R), education (E), and analytical (A) courses. The curricular plan follows:
Semester |
Courses Taught (Credits) |
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Summer 1 |
N534
(1) Research Seminar: Grant Development and
Critique (R) |
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Fall 1 |
N536
(2) Nursing Theory: Foundation for Knowledge
Development (N) |
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Spring 1 |
N565 (3)
Information Management for Clinical Practice
(N) |
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Summer 2 |
N574
(2) Nursing Science: Acute Biobehavioral
Nursing Outcomes (N) |
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Fall 2 |
N521 (3)
Learning, Teaching and Evaluation in Nursing
(E) N584 (3) Nursing Science: Systems of Health Care Delivery (N) N529* (3) Analytical Seminar for Health Sciences (A) |
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Spring 2 |
N523 (3)
Educational Issues and Curriculum Analysis
(E) |
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Fall 3 |
N585 (1)
Faculty Role Seminar
(E) N586 (2) Faculty Role Practicum (E) |
Course Descriptions
N521
Learning, Teaching and Evaluation in
Nursing. Theories, frameworks, and methods
used in teaching, learning, and assessment in nursing
education. Develop evidence-base practices to improve
educational outcomes.
N523
Educational Issues and Curriculum
Analysis. Exploration of curriculum history,
development, future predictions; program evaluation,
instructional resources, leadership, and policy
development in academic and service settings.
N527*
Association, Group Difference, and Regression
Techniques for Health Sciences. Application of
quantitative techniques to explore relationships and
group differences among variables supporting research
questions in health science research.
N528*
Multivariate Statistical Techniques for Health
Sciences. Application of quantitative
techniques to explore relationships and predict group
membership among variables, supporting research
questions in heath science investigations.
N529*
Analytical Seminar for Health Science.
Seminar and guided study to survey research techniques
and to explore in depth research methods used for
health science research.
N534
Research Seminar: Grant Development and
Critique. Seminar course that focuses on the
sections of a grant proposal for clinical research,
potential sources of funding for research and
dissertation work, and the critical review of grant
proposal. Students will lead selected class discussions
and conduct a mock grant review session.
N535
Philosophy of Nursing Science. Examine
and analyze the structure and organization of fields of
knowledge in science including historical and
philosophical tenets of inquiry.
N536
Nursing Theory: Foundation for Knowledge
Development. Theory development analysis,
theory critique, nursing knowledge examination, impact
of theory on nursing science, applied to
student’s phenomenon of interest.
N565
Information Management for Clinical
Practice. Application/evaluation of nursing
informatics; information systems to support clinical
research, practice, administration and education.
Nursing Science: Chronic Biobehavioral Nursing Outcomes. Analyzes concepts, theories, and research relevant to preventing and managing chronic conditions across the life span.
N574
Nursing Science: Acute Biobehavioral Nursing
Outcomes. An overview of research methods,
procedures and analysis of acute phenomena in nursing
with a focus on vulnerable populations.
N584
Nursing Science: Systems of Health Care
Delivery. Examination of health care delivery
systems in the U.S. and worldwide, addressing barriers
to care, social justice, vulnerability, access
disparity.
N585
Faculty Role Seminar. Analysis of
current issues related to the faculty role in nursing
education.
N586
Faculty Role Practicum. Analysis,
development and enactment of selected aspects of the
faculty role.
N587
Research Inquiry: Qualitative Methods
I. Qualitative methodologies, issues, and
techniques of data collection, analysis, and
interpretation. Issues of ethics and bias will be
addressed.
N588
Research Inquiry: Quantitative Methods
I. Quantitative methodologies, issues, and
techniques of data collection, analysis, and
interpretation.
N589
Psychometrics in Health Care Research.
Theoretical/practical application of psychometric
theory and techniques for
constructing/analyzing/testing instruments to measure
nursing/educational interventions/outcomes.
N591
Mixed Methods for Outcome Evaluation.
Outcomes and evaluation in nursing and healthcare will
be addressed from both qualitative and quantitative
methods and application perspective.
N593
Preliminary Examination Seminar.
Students will examine methods to synthesize knowledge
from courses to present and analyze scholarly nursing
science knowledge.
N799
Dissertation Seminar. Establish best
practices for doctoral research and presentation.
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*refers to tentative and working course numbers for
those courses within the university review
process
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