2024-2025 University Catalog
School of Nursing (Graduate)
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Website URL:
https://www.purdue.edu/hhs/nur/
Department/School Head:
Christopher Coleman
Academic Programs:
Master’s, DNP, and PhD Programs
AGNP
The Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (MS/AGNP) program offers an interdisciplinary approach to advanced practice education. Options for interdisciplinary work include medicine, pharmacy, audiology, speech pathology, social work, and physical and occupational therapy. Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioners are specialists in adult care who see patients ages 13 and older in a variety of settings. The AGNP program is designed to educate nurses who can provide competent, culturally sensitive, cost-effective, accessible and efficient care with an emphasis on rural underserved populations. It is certified by the National Hartford Center of Gerontological Nursing Excellence. Graduates are eligible to sit for the appropriate certification examination.
FNP
The Family Nurse Practitioner specialization develops leadership and practice skills necessary to shape nursing practice in a dynamic, complex, and globally interdependent healthcare system with a focus on the family delivering care to all ages. The FNP program is designed to educate nurses who can provide competent, culturally sensitive, cost-effective, accessible and efficient care with an emphasis on rural underserved populations. Graduates are eligible to sit for the appropriate certification examination.
PNP-PC
The Primary Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner specialization develops leadership and practice skills necessary to shape nursing practice in a dynamic, complex, and globally interdependent healthcare system. The PNP-PC program is designed to educate nurses who can provide competent, culturally sensitive, cost-effective, accessible, and efficient care with an emphasis on rural underserved populations to infants, children, and adolescents. Graduates are elegible to sit for the appropriate certification examination.
PMHNP
The Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner specialization is designed to educate nurses who can provide competent, culturally sensitive, cost-effective, accessible and efficient mental health care. The PMHNP program focuses on developing leadership and practice skills to deliver advanced psychiatric/mental health care to families and individuals of all ages.
Graduates are eligible to sit for the appropriate certification examination.
DNP
The DNP program prepares nurses for knowledge and skill-building in areas of scholarly practice, innovation, practice improvement, health policy, leadership, quality and system improvement, evaluation of health outcomes, clinical expertise for advanced nursing education and testing of care delivery models. There are are four BSN-DNP specializations (AGPCNP, FNP, PNP-PC, PMHNP). The Post MS DNP offers two tracks, Direct Patient Care or Public Health/Homeland Security for both Advanced Practice RNs and non-Advanced Practice RNs). BSN-DNP graduates are eligible to sit for the appropriate certification examination.
Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing
This campus-based learning program is designed to prepare the next generation of nurse scholars and scientists. The Ph.D. in Nursing program curriculum is designed to prepare the nurse scientist for innovative and translational research through the use of transdisciplinary collaboration and teams. The Ph.D. in Nursing emphasizes the optimization of health care delivery through innovative care and innovations in healthcare delivery systems. Graduates are prepared to conduct rigorous, transdisciplinary research to expand nursing science and translate findings to the practice; lead interdisciplinary teams that can transform the science of healthcare; and theory, existing evidence, and scientific methods to innovative solutions to healthcare challenges. The program also offers a dual-title Ph.D. in Gerontology through the Center for Aging and the Life Course (CALC).
- Master of Science (MS) as an Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner
- Master of Science (MS) as a Primary Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
- Master of Science (MS) as a Primary Care Family Nurse Practitioner
- Master of Science (MS) as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
- Post-BSN to Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)
- Post-MSN to Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Graduate Certificates
- Post Master’s Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Certificate
- Post Master’s Primary Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Certificate
- Post Master’s Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Certificate
- Post Master’s Family Nurse Practitioner Certificate
Regular Graduate Faculty by Rank:
Professor
Gregory W. Arling
Christopher Coleman
Nancy E. Edwards
Karen J. Foli
Sara A. McComb
Associate Professor
Kathleen Abrahamson
Azza H. Ahmed
Elizabeth E. Richards
Vicki L. Simpson
Dongjuan (Donna) Xu
Assistant Professor
Qinglan (Priscilla) Ding
Zachery Hass
Nasreen Lalani
Pi-Ju (Marian) Liu
Jiayun Xu
Clinical Professor
Jennifer A. Coddington
Pamela M. Karagory
Clinical Associate Professor
Nicole Adams
Mopelola T. Adeola
Julian Gallegos
Becky Good
Diane Hountz
Kristen F. Kirby
Janelle Potetz
Clinical Assistant Professor
Mary Ajuwon
Karen Atcheson
Sandra Gilpin
Laura Hawkins
Carmen A. Jones
Elizabeth Jones
Susan Kersey
Ann Loomis
Laura Moffat
Karla C. Ross
Margaret (Meg) Sorg
Amanda Ward
ProgramsDoctoralMaster’sPost Master’s CertificateCoursesNursing
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