ASU College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation

From a program that graduated only six people in 1960, the College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation has grown to include more than 7,800 graduates. The college has evolved from a small baccalaureate program to one of the largest nursing colleges in the U.S. with bachelor, master and doctorate degrees offered. The following information discusses graduate and doctoral programs.

Graduate Advanced Practice Specialty Programs

The Arizona State University (ASU) College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation Graduate Education Program offers several choices that can help you advance your career in nursing. You may choose a graduate advanced practice specialty in which you want to work, add an additional specialty to what you already have, complete a graduate certificate to enhance your knowledge and qualify for admission for a doctoral program.

Master of Science in Nursing (MS)

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Nurse Educator

The Nurse Educator option is designed to provide a seamless transition to the PhD or the DNP program depending on your career goals. Graduates are eligible to sit for National Certification as a Nurse Educator once they have satisfied the teaching requirement

Community/Public Health

The Community/Public Health Nursing graduate program provides theoretical and practical foundations for advanced practice in community/public health nursing in public or private sector health care settings. The major focus in this specialty area is on assessment of health needs and planning, delivering and evaluating health care services at a population level.

• Application Deadline: January 1 for the next fall semester.

Master of Healthcare Innovation

The Master of Healthcare Innovation (MHI) program offers a futuristic, multidisciplinary, educational approach to the development of health care leaders who base decisions upon the best evidence available. Students accepted into this program will learn new processes to develop innovative, immediate solutions to existing or potential health care problems in both traditional and non-traditional health care organizations. These students will come from a variety of backgrounds including nurse managers, nurses who are ready to move into leadership and administrative positions, physicians, dentists and architects. Students are expected to come with a current or future health care problem or product they will work on during a directed study program.

This 33-credit, 12-24 month program is designed to bring together information from business, leadership, technology and system design programs in a way that encourages application of this knowledge to create innovative solutions to current health care problems.

• Application Deadlines: May 1 each year for the fall semester.

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)

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The College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation is one of the first colleges in the nation to offer this new terminal degree as a post-baccalaureate option with seven advanced practice specialties. This early entry into this option was designed to address the critical need for advanced practice nurses and nurse practitioner faculty and preceptors.

The Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) distance learning program is focused on clinical practice and the application of research findings to address clinical problems for improvement of patient care and outcomes with delivery of evidence-based care.

Advanced Practice Specialties for DNP

The College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation offers advanced practice specialties/nurse practitioner areas such as:

• Adult
• Family
• Geriatric
• Neonatal
• Pediatric
• Psychiatric Mental Health
• Women's Health

Post-Master's Entry for DNP:

The post-master entry point for the DNP is designed for nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists and masters-prepared nurses who want to take their practice to a new level. Clinical experts who have been in practice want to come to this program because the classes are designed to be innovative, interesting, and are organized to provide you with expert colleagues and mentors across the nation who can challenge you to take your practice to a new level. The focus of the program of study is on evidence-based practice mentorship.

Application deadlines:

• January 1: Post-baccalaureate entry and post-master entry without any Advanced Practice, or if adding a specialty for fall semester entry.
• October 1: Post-master's entry for spring semester.

Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing & Healthcare Innovation (PhD)

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Building on its strengths to help address the national nursing shortage, the ASU College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation offers a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Nursing & Healthcare Innovation which is designed for scholars who wish to pursue careers as leaders in health policy, health care delivery, nursing education and/or research. The innovative program has three practicums: teaching, leadership and research, with the goal of optimizing quality of life and health resources. Faculty from other ASU departments enrich the interdisciplinary scope of this program.

The degree also helps address a national need for nurse educators who are increasingly in short supply. February 15 each year is the application deadline date for fall semester entry.

Graduate Certificates

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The College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation offers graduate certificates to professionals in nursing and other interdisciplinary health care professions. The certificates are designed for professionals who want to add value and updated knowledge and skills to their careers.

The certificates include:

• Evidence-Based Practice *
• Child-Adolescent Mental Health Intervention Specialist *
• Clinical Research Management **
• International Health **
• Nurse Educator**

* Post-master's requirement
** Post-baccalaureate requirement

The certificates require 15 credit hours which can be completed in 3 consecutive semesters or one year. Many of these credits can then be transferred into a doctoral program.

Applications deadline is March 1, but inquires are welcome just in case there has been a deadline extension.

Information

If you are interested in this school and would like to find out more, please Request Information from Arizona State University.

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