Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing
- Summer October 15
- Spokane: Yes
- 550 TOEFL Minimum score
- 80 TOEFLI Minimum score
Degree Description:
The Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing (PhD) prepares you to advance the discipline of nursing science through a research-focused program emphasizing innovative approaches and leveraged resources to improve helath care for all. Graduates of the program are equipped to become leaders in nursing education and research, critical roles in today’s health care environment.
Admission Requirements:
RN license, Masters from an accredited program admission is summer only using Fall app deadlines
Student Learning Outcomes:
All graduates will be able to:
- Contribute to advancing nursing science and practice through clinical research.
- Analyze, construct, and test theoretical frameworks that guide nursing research design, methodology, data analyses, and the transfer of new knowledge into practice.
- Create effective interdisciplinary collaborations to foster research and the transfer of evidence-based knowledge into best clinical practices.
- Synthesize knowledge from a variety of disciplines to create research designs and methods for nursing science and to address ethical, social, cultural, political, and professional issues.
- Implement proven and emerging technologies to enhance nursing research and education.
- Implement innovative research designs, methodologies, leadership skills, health education, and/or lifestyle modification techniques to address the health care needs of vulnerable populations and disparities in the access to or delivery of care.
Student Opportunities:
Opportunities to collaborate and publish with research faculty, present at national conferences
Career Opportunities:
tenure faculty, researchers, and health care administration, Nurse Scientist, Hospital Nurse Researcher
Career Placements:
Colleges and schools of Nursing, Education and Research departments of hospitals and other health care environments, state and local government departments related to health care
Faculty Members:
Bailey, Lori A, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair of graduate committee
Research Interests
Exploring the characteristics and socialization needed for nurses to be advocates beyond the bedside, including in health policy and in communities.
Barbosa-Leiker, Celestina, PhD
Research Interests
Examining psychosocial risk factors of heart disease, specifically the predictive ability of stress, depression, and anger on traditional heart disease risk factors such as hypertension, adiposity, and dyslipidemia.
Benavides-Vaello, Sandra, Ph.D.
Butterfield, Patricia, Ph.D.
Research Interests
Environmental health nursing, Household environmental risk reduction, Occupational and environmental health in rural settings, Conceptual approaches to public health nursing.
Caines, Karen, D.N.P.
Davis, Andra, Ph.D.
Research Interests
Interprofessional education
Dermody, Dana, Ph.D.
Research Interests
Gerontology, gerontologic nursing, prevention of functional decline in older adults, evidence-based practice in the acute care setting; patient-centered care, care coordination and nursing care delivery, interdisciplinary team, complexity science and translational science. Issues with nurse-documentation in the electronic health record; microsystem and macrosystem factors that contribute to barriers to the integration of evidence-based nursing care delivery; Evidence-based–practice, nursing care delivery in the global context, and the development of partnerships with the international community.
Dotson, Joann, Ph.D.
Doutrich, Dawn Liam, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair of graduate committee
Research Interests
international nurse educators: what the experts say, and creating a diverse nursing workforce through workforce partnerships.
Duvall, Darryl, D.N.P.
Eddy, Linda Lee, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair of graduate committee
Eide, Phyllis, Ph.D.
Research Interests
Rural health, global climate change, and public health
Fincham, Sarah J, D.N.P.
Serves as: chair of graduate committee
Research Interests
HPV Vaccine education and uptake
Immunization education
DNP student education
DNP project development
Communicable disease
Patient-provider communication-exploring what is most effective
Contraceptive Management
The role and contributions of the nurse practitioner in health care
Adolescent health
STD prevention and treatment
Public health
Fleming, Susan Elaine, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair of graduate committee
Research Interests
Susan Fleming earned her diploma of nursing at Los Angeles County School of Nursing, and her BSN from Washington State University Intercollegiate College of Nursing. In 2005, she received her MN from University of Washington, Seattle where she earned two certificates: Nurse Educator Certificate and Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist Certificate. She is a graduate of the PhD program at Washington State University College of Nursing. She currently teaches N316 Foundations in Nursing and assists Dr. Billie Severtsen with N309 Ethics. She advocates for individuals with disabilities working in healthcare fields and newborns who are born with birth defects. Her clinical practice extends many years primarily working in hospital nursing with mothers and newborns. Her research interest lies in studying technology and the American birth experience. Her goal is to improve nursing practice and health outcomes of mothers and their off springs for generations to come.
Graves, Janessa, Ph.D.
Research Interests
Pediatric injury research, health services research, head injuries in children & adolescents, occupational injuries among working adolescents, impacts of work on young people, global health.
Haberman, Melvin R, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair of graduate committee
Research Interests
Oncology, cancer survivorship, health-related quality of life, demands of illness, alternative therapies for cancer, mixed methods research designs.
Holliday, Carrie, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair of graduate committee
Research Interests
Suicide, suicide prevention, suicide assessment and risk management, substance abuse, adolescent mental health, vulnerable populations
Kardong-Edgren, Suzan, Ph.D.
Klein, Tracy Ann, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair of graduate committee
Lohan, Janet, Ph.D.
McPherson, Sterling Marshall, PhD
Serves as: chair of graduate committee
Research Interests
Director, Program of Excellence in Addictions Research, Associate Director, Providence Medical Research Center: 1) Development of evidence-based substance use disorder treatments, 2) Behavioral pharmacology, 3) Innovative analytical methods to answer novel research questions in psychopharmacology and substance abuse, 4) Kidney disease and acute kidney injury, mental illness and drug and alcohol use as risk factors.
Nguyen-Truong, Connie, Ph.D.
Research Interests
Cervical cancer screening health disparity
Odom-Maryon, Tamara, Ph.D.
Research Interests
Application of statistical methods, with an emphasis on longitudinal data analysis techniques, to health data including studies focusing on nursing interventions, environmental health, and asthma.
Oneal, Gail Ann, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair of graduate committee
Research Interests
Health literacy, risk communication and health information use, risk messages, environmental and occupational health, population health, underserved and rural populations
Postma, Julie Marie, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair of graduate committee
Research Interests
Environmental health promotion, socio-cultural aspects of environmental health, environmental justice, social determinants of health
Purath, Janet, Ph.D.
Richardson, Barbara, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair of graduate committee
Roll, John, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair of graduate committee
Research Interests
Human behavioral pharmacology, the development and refinement of behavioral interventions for addiction and other psychiatric disorders, as well as technology transfer issues.
Schiavenato, Martin, Ph.D.
Research Interests
Development of tools and methods to measure pain in vulnerable populations, especially newborn infants and pre-school children.
Severtsen, Billie M, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair of graduate committee
Research Interests
Ethical decision making in health care, life narratives of illness and quality of life, Heideggerian Hermaneutic Phenomenology, and health care policy
Shishani, Kawkab, Ph.D.
Research Interests
Tobacco Treatment Specialist
Short, Robert A, Ph.D.
Smart, Denise, D.P.H.
Serves as: chair of graduate committee
Research Interests
Work place safety, military health, women’s health and health and safety for disaster response workers.
Tzeng, Huey-Ming
Van_Son, Catherine, Ph.D.
Research Interests
Gerontology, managing chronic conditions, qualitative methods, late-in-life migration, health literacy, gero-education
Vandermause, Roxanne, Ph.D.
Research Interests
Experiential aspects of women’s addiction as well as completed educational and community health demonstration and evaluation projects
Wilson, Marian L, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair of graduate committee
Research Interests
Pain, self-management programs to assist patients with persistent (chronic) pain, mood disorders, opioid dependency/misuse, addiction.