Nursing Educational Leadership, Ph.D.
Phone: 908-737-6210
Email: nursing@kean.edu
Program Description
This Nursing Educational Leadership is a fifty-nine credit program of study for the preparation of nurses with expertise in the professorial role. The program is comprised of twenty courses leading the graduate to be competent as a scholar, educator and clinician. It is a four-year program plan of study geared to the three perspectives of the professorial role: expert researcher, academic leader and accomplished clinician (NLN, 2006). Core values support the respect for and implementation of a curriculum addressing care, diversity, ethics, excellence, holism, integrity and patient/client-centeredness. Both the didactic and clinical components of the program foster the integration of concepts sustaining nursing's context and environment, quality, safety, relationship centered care, interdisciplinary teamwork and the multidimensional development of the nursing educational leader (NLN, 2010, AACN 2006).
Program Requirements
- 59 credits
- Comprehensive Examination
- Dissertation
Comprehensive Examination and Dissertation required for graduation.
Year 1--20 credits
| NURS 6000 | PHILOSOPHY OF NURSING SCIENCE | 3 |
| NURS 6100 | CONCEPT ANALYSIS AND MAPPING | 3 |
| NURS 6200 | HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF NURSING EDUCATION | 3 |
| NURS 6210 | NURSING CURRICULUM DESIGN | 3 |
| NURS 6220 | EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP ROLES | 3 |
| NURS 6120 | LEGAL AND ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS IN RESEARCH | 2 |
| NURS 6300 | EXPERTISE IN CLINICAL PRACTICE WITH DIVERSE, UNDERSERVED AND VULNERABLE POPULATIONS | 3 |
Year 2--21 credits
| NURS 6110 | QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH | 3 |
| PSY 6111 | ADVANCED STATISTICS I | 3 |
| NURS 6115 | QUALITATIVE RESEARCH | 3 |
| PSY 6116 | | |
| | Elective (in any discipline) | 3 |
| NURS 6130 | GRANT WRITING AND FISCAL ESSENTIALS | 3 |
| NURS 6310 | INFORMATICS: SAFETY, QUALITY, OUTCOMES AND EVIDENCE | 3 |
Elective courses are to be selected with guidance from program coordinator.
Year 3--12 credits
| NURS 7210 | TEST DESIGNS AND OUTCOMES MEASUREMENT | 3 |
| NURS 7220 | DIDACTIC AND CLINICAL NURSING EDUCATION PRACTICUM | 3 |
| | Elective (in any discipline) | 3 |
| NURS 7200 | CURRICULUM INNOVATION | 3 |
Elective courses to be selected with guidance from program coordinator.
Year 4--6 credits
| NURS 8000 | PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR INITIATIVE | 3 |
| NURS 8500 | PRIN INVESTIGATOR DISSERTATION COLLOQUIUM | 3 |
NURS 8000: Students must receive a passing score on the Comprehensive Examination in order to register for the course.
NURS 8500: Dissertation proposals must be approved prior to registration for course.
Total Credit Hours: 59