Nurse Executive Role Accelerated EdD

Doctor of Education

NURSE EXECUTIVE ROLE

The Accelerated Program at the Ed.D. level is a cohort program that meets one day per week on Fridays. The program consists of six semesters of coursework leading to the Ed.D. degree in addition to satisfactory completion of a doctoral dissertation. Program tuition is billed at the standard, per-credit Teachers College tuition rate.

For program course recommendations and program planning, please see the Doctor of Education Advisement Guide that can be obtained from the office of the Executive Program for Nurses. The following is an example of a doctoral cohort sequence by semester.

Semester I

• ORLN 5005 Interdisciplinary theory in nursing (3)
• ORLN 6514 Marketing nursing programs and services (3)
• HUDM 4122 Probability and statistical inference (3)

Semester II

• ORL 5551 Ethics for healthcare professionals (3)
• ORL 6500 Qualitative research methods in organizations: Design and data collection (3)
• ORLN 6615 Colloquium in nursing administration (3)

Semester III

• ORLN 5043 Nursing research development (3)
• ORLN 6522 Policy formation and governance in healthcare (3)
• A&HF 4090 Philosophies of education (3)

Certification

Semester IV

• ORL 6011 Advanced system management (3)
• ORLN 6014 Managing the socially responsible organization (3)
• ORLN 6540 Dissertation design development (3)

Semester V

• ORLN 5011 Designing, planning, and monitoring the healthcare system (3)
• ORLN 6541 Advanced dissertation design development (3)
• ORLN 7500 Dissertation seminar in nursing (3)

Semester VI

• ORLN 6511 Innovations in nursing management (3)
• ORLN 6635 Colloquium in nursing education (3)
• ORLN 7900 Directed dissertation research (3)                   

Note: After certification, candidates must be continuously enrolled every fall and spring semester, up to and including the semester in which the dissertation defense is held and the revised and/or completed dissertation is submitted to the Office of Doctoral Studies.  Following satisfactory completion of all cohort courses covering six semesters, all cohort students must continue in and attend a regular course (3 points) every semester until all requirements for graduation are completed.  Course selection: Courses that may be taken include ORLN 6940, ORLN 6941, ORLN 7900, or ORLN 8900 and are based on the advice of the candidate’s advisor.

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