Announcing Our New and Innovative PhD Admission Option: DNP to PhD

This PhD option permits nurses obtaining a DNP degree to achieve valuable skills that will individuals to do something as independent researchers.
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New 3-year and 4-year Curriculum Options

Along with current trends in nursing combined with Institute of medicine (IOM) report along with the Robert Wood Manley Way ahead for Nursing Scholars Program, the college of Nursing is proud to announce a totally new 3-year and revised 4-year PhD key in Nursing. Students are now able to modify the program that meets employing their goals and lifestyle. The Three and 4-year choices identical but differ in intensity and duration. Both programs assist students in identifying, clarifying and articulating their research subject and concepts at the outset of this program. With the program, students are mentored since they concentrate on their ideas and research goals. Emphasis lies across the health needs of vulnerable individuals and populations inside the context of social justice.

The Three and 4-year programs can be found online with residency options onsite in Pittsburgh, PA, the other residency incorporated in research abroad experience at Duquesne’s Rome and/or Dublin Campus. It’s expected that students will complete the PhD in nursing in 3 or 4 years according to the program selected. Students joining some-year program would typically complete 6 credits per semester, whereas the three-year program students would complete 6-10 credits per semester. Students thinking about joining the three-year program should have persistence for prioritizing time to accomplish this program unencumbered by expectations greater than-demanding existence/work/job.

The objective of the brand-new 3-year and revised 4-year PhD key in nursing should be to engage students in a intensive rigorous manner that prepares them as nurse scholars to go into the workforce within the reasonable period of time.

Residency 1: Doctorate Week (Summer time time season 1)
Every student famous for the PhD program is needed reach campus for the first residency, usually held with the third week of May. Now includes an orientation for that PhD program and will be offering an opportunity for college kids to satisfy faculty and take part in live courses of instruction for the courses that they are enrolled that summer time time time.

Residency 2: Study Abroad (Summer time time season 2)
Students enrolled in GPNG 924 Means of Scientific Inquiry II will require area of the course as being a study abroad knowledge about locations for example Dublin, Ireland where students may have housing inside the Duquesne College Ireland campus.

Residency 3: Subject and Committee Approval
(Year 2 for a lot of-yr program and Year 3 for 4-yr program)
This residency offers an chance for your student to satisfy together with hisOrher faculty mentor either at Duquesne College or any other location as being a conference setting for intensive discussion and writing around dissertation subject rise in preparation for approval.

Residency 4:FinalDissertation Defense
(Year 3 for a lot of-yr program and Year 4 for 4-yr program)
Students are crucial reach campus for the final public defense in the dissertation.

Nursing PhD Scholarship 2015-2017

Congratulations with this particular year’s Scholarship Winners:

• Khalifah Fisher-Elegance
• Christine Lepianka