BS-PhD Nurse Educator Program Plan
The BS-PhD program provides a seamless pathway for students who have a BSN to earn their MSN and PhD. The nurse scientist educator concentration prepares students to advance nursing knowledge and transform nursing education during their doctoral research.
Year one
Total: 15 credits
Fall
- NUR 500: Theoretical Foundations in Advancing Nursing Practice - 3 credits
- NUR 520: Healthcare Systems - 3 credits
Spring
- NUR 511: Translating Research Evidence for Advancing Nursing Practice - 3 credits
- NUR 512: Integrated Physiological Knowledge - 3 credits
Summer
- NUR 605: Statistical Analysis - 3 credits
Year two
Total: 12 credits
Fall
- NUR 644: Teaching and Learning Theory, Research & Strategies - 3 credits
- NUR 645: Teaching in the Clinical and Technology Enhanced Environments - 3 credits
Spring
- NUR 642: Curriculum Development in Nursing Education - 3 credits
- NUR 646: Practicum Teaching, Learning, and Evaluation (practicum) - 3 credits
Year three
Total: 19 credits
Fall
- NUR 700: Philosophy of Nursing Science - 3 credits
- NUR 720: Human Response to Health and Illness: Research, Theory, and Practice - 3 credits
- NUR 780: Doctoral Seminar - 1 credit
Spring
- NUR 705: Theory and Construction, to Synthesis and Application Practice - 3 credits
- NUR 710: Multivariate Analysis in Health Care Research - 3 credits
- NUR 786: Dissertation Development I - 2 credits
- NUR 780: Doctoral Seminar - 1 credit
Summer
- NUR 712: Qualitative Methods in Nursing Research - 3 credits
- Apply for MS degree
Year four
Total: 19 credits
Fall
- NUR 714: Quantitative Methods in Nursing - 3 credits
- NUR 750: Leadership & Scholarly Development in Nursing Education - 3 credits
- NUR 780: Doctoral Seminar - 1 credit
- Select Dissertation Committee Chair in September
Spring
- NUR 730: Nursing Interventions in the Care of the Chronically Ill Persons: Research, Theory, and Practice - 3 credits
- NUR 740: Promoting Health and Shaping the Healthcare System: Research, Theory, and Practice - 3 credits
- NUR 780: Doctoral Seminar - 1 credit
- NUR 787: Dissertation Development II - 2 credits
- Form Dissertation Committee by May
Summer
- Elective - 3 credits
- Apply for PhD candidacy
Year five
Total: 8 credits
Fall
- NUR 788: Dissertation Proposal - 3 credits
- NUR 780: Doctoral Seminar - 1 credit
Spring
- NUR 789: Dissertation Defense - 3 credits
- NUR 780: Doctoral Seminar - 1 credit