Posted by Brenne Meirowitz on May 26th, 2010
By BRENNE MEIROWITZ
Duquesne University School of Nursing offers several online graduate nursing programs, which includes two PhD nursing online programs. Degrees may be complete with little or no on-campus attendance, utilizing the school’s state-of-the-art learning technologies and the Internet. When compared to on-campus courses, nursing courses taken online are identical in their objectives and rigor. Online students pay the same tuition as on-campus students; online course credits are structured no differently than the same course taken in a classroom. Whether a student chooses to take all nursing courses online or in combination with on-campus study, their diploma, certificate, or transcript will bear no distinction from that of a traditional Duquesne on-campus student. However, students are required to visit the campus once a year for a period of one week, which is usually the week prior to Thanksgiving.
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Posted by admin on May 2nd, 2010
By BRENNE MEIROWITZ
While researching this subject, PhD Nursing Online Programs, it dawned on me that it is no longer good enough just to be a doctor or just to be a nurse, but you must be a doctor-nurse! While it might sound silly or even confusing, earning a doctorate degree in nursing is in fact quite a sought after title, especially for those working in academia. Let’s take for example, John Welton, a PhD and RN who is an associate professor at the College of Nursing, Medical University of South Carolina, who answers to the title Dr. Welton. Oddly enough, Dr. Welton started his career as an ambulance chaser, that is to say he started his own air ambulance business in the late 1980s while completing his Master of Science degree in nursing administration from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Within ten years, the industrious Welton earned his doctorate, and in so doing developed a passion for nursing informatics. While attending graduate school, he held a hospital position in the critical care units, in which he developed and maintained databases for quality and clinical management. Dr. Welton began nursing his professional passions after earning his Bachelor’s Degree in 1980, when he embarked in the field of critical care and flight nursing until 1993. Needless to say, there is no wonder why he has an increasing passion for the economic value of nursing – especially if he is being paid a salary to research it! Surely, the costs associated with running PhD nursing online programs are much more cost effective than traditional classroom teaching.
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