Nursing (PhD) - MS to PhD Health Policy and Population Health Track

Program Requirements

Complete 48 credits from 14 courses including seven required courses, three research methods courses, three methods electives, and nine credits of dissertation research.

Doctoral candidacy: Students must pass written and oral comprehensive exams which is a prerequisite for doctoral candidacy. The written exam consists of two papers; one conceptual and one methodological.
Dissertation: Candidates must complete and defend a dissertation written in traditional five-chapter format.

Statute of limitations: Eight years.

Course Requirements

Required Courses (21 Credits)

NURSNG 607 - Evidenced Based Teaching Practices 3 Credit(s)
NURSNG 700 - Philosophy of Nursing Science: Ways of Knowing 3 Credit(s)
NURSNG 702 - Doctoral Seminar 3 Credit(s)
NURSNG 741 - Health Policy I 3 Credit(s)
NURSNG 745 - Population Health I 3 Credit(s)
NURSNG 750 - Contemporary Disciplinary Knowledge 3 Credit(s)
NURSNG 770 - Biostatistics II: Advanced Statistical Methods in Healthcare Research 3 Credit(s)

Research Methods Courses (9 Credits)

PPOL-G 609L - Qualitative Methods and Field Research 3 Credit(s)
EHS 825L - Advanced Quantitative Research Methods I 3 Credit(s)
or
NURSNG 825L - Advanced Quantitative Research Methods I 3 Credit(s)
or
NURSNG 780 - Epidemiologic Methods 3 Credit(s)
NURSNG 790 - Integrating concepts & methods for research development 3 Credit(s)

Methods Electives (9 Credits)

Complete three courses chosen in consultation with the graduate program director.

Dissertation Research (9 Credits)

NURSNG 899 - Dissertation Research 3-9 Credit(s)