Monday, April 29, 2013

Boise State Adds Two More Doctorate Degrees

Most people are fully aware of Boise State's meteoric rise to national prominence in football and other sports.  Unfortunately, the media does a terrible job of writing about the school's advances in academics.  You know from this site that the Boise State Speech & Debate Team has become nearly a perennial National Champion.

And you now know that Boise State has added two doctorate programs, one in public policy and an online nursing doctorate program.  The program focuses on ensuring that the university continues to serve as a top resource for those at all levels of government, as well as for citizens who seek improved public policy knowledge, development and implementation.

Graduates will be prepared for senior-level positions in public, nonprofit and international organizations, research in natural resource policy, environmental policy, science policy, and positions in government, nonprofit and advocacy groups and consulting organizations, as well as in academic teaching and research positions.  

Full-time and part-time students may apply now for the program that begins this fall.  Learn more at:  sspa.boisestate.edu/phd-ppa.

A newly-approved doctoral program will prepare more nurses to assume leadership responsibilites in education and the clinical work force.  The Affordable Health Care Act will lead to tens of thousands of more jobs for both nurses and doctors in the years to come since millions of people be getting annual checkups for the first time and with nearly 100% of the public being covered by insurance, more doctor visits are a logical result. 

The online doctor of nursing practice program will begin in August of this year.  Entry requires a current registered nurse license (RN), a bachelor's degree in nursing with a master's degree in a related field, or a master's degree in nursing.


“Health care systems are growing and becoming more 
complex and nurses are pivotal in these systems,” says 
Dr. Pam Springer, associate dean of the College of Health 
Sciences and director of the School of Nursing.   “Nurses 
prepared with practice doctorates have the skills 
necessary to work within these complex systems to 
improve the health care experience and outcomes.”

Boise State has forged a memorandum of understanding 
(MOU) with Idaho State University that outlines how 
graduate education at the two schools can benefit Idaho.  The agreement includes a new doctorate in nursing at ISU 
that will focus on direct care advanced practice nursing .

Boise State’s new degree is part of a broader set of 
existing and newly approved graduate programs at Boise State that also include two existing master’s degrees 
in nursing and a new adult-Gerontology nurse 
practitioner program that includes a master’s degree in adult-gerontology nursing and two new graduate certificates: 
adult-gerontology nurse practitioner and acute care, adult-gerontology nurse practitioner. 

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