The School of Nursing in the College of Health and Human Development has received a three-year grant to support the startup costs of its new doctorate program.
The grant from the Division of Nursing in the Bureau of Health Professions, which totals $834,245, will be used to support the School of Nursing's new doctor of philosophy degree in the graduate program in nursing. The program opens in the fall.
The curriculum is unique in presenting an interdisciplinary focus in which students combine nursing science with one or more other disciplines to develop a specialty designed to provide leadership in a changing health care system, according to Frieda M. Holt.
Holt heads the new program and is professor-in-charge of graduate nursing programs in the School of Nursing. Graduates of the program will function as clinicians, faculty, researchers and in other leadership roles. Applicants can get more information by calling Holt at (814) 863-2211 or sending e-mail to fmh3@psu.edu.