Master of Nursing
- Fall - 3/15
- Spring - 11/1
- Spokane: Yes
- Tri-Cities: Yes
- Vancouver: Yes
- 550 TOEFL Minimum score
- 80 TOEFLI Minimum score
- 7 IELTS Minimum score
Degree Description:
The Master of Nursing Population Health (MN PH) is a practice-focused degree that is designed to educate advanced practice nurses to provide direct care to individual patients; manage care for individuals, families, groups and populations; serve as administrators in health care organizations; engage as faculty in nursing programs; develop and implement health policy; and translate research into expert practice.
Admission Requirements:
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Student Learning Outcomes:
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Career Opportunities:
Community nurse educators and administrators.
Faculty Members:
Burduli, Ekaterina
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Chacon, Christina
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Diede, Tulla
Serves as: chair of graduate committee
Eddy, Linda Lee, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Eti, Deborah
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Fincham, Sarah J, D.N.P.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member 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
Geil, Shelly
Graves, Janessa, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
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.
Hamel, Angela
Hoeksel, Renee Celeste, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Klein, Tracy Ann, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Interface between public policy and prescribing patterns as they relate to practitioner, patient, and institutional factors”
Mason, Anne Michele, D.N.P.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Nguyen-Truong, Connie, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Cervical cancer screening health disparity
Oneal, Gail Ann, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member 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, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Environmental health promotion, socio-cultural aspects of environmental health, environmental justice, social determinants of health
Richards, Claire
Sarkinen, Bonnie
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Shishani, Kawkab, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Tobacco Treatment Specialist
Smart, Denise, D.P.H.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Work place safety, military health, women’s health and health and safety for disaster response workers.
Stover, Pamela, DNP
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Geriatric mental health; vulnerable populations and mental health; therapeutic communication; dementia care; integrated mental health care
VanSon, Catherine, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Gerontology, managing chronic conditions, qualitative methods, late-in-life migration, health literacy, gero-education
Wilson, Marian L, Ph.D.
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee
Research Interests
Pain, self-management programs to assist patients with persistent (chronic) pain, mood disorders, opioid dependency/misuse, addiction.
Wood, Natsuko
Serves as: chair, co-chair, or member of graduate committee