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Community/Public Health Nursing, M.S.N.

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**This is a Distance Education program.**

The Community/Public Health Nursing specialty prepares nurses to assume leadership in assessing communities and populations, identifying high risk groups, and in partnership with communities, consumers, and stakeholders, developing culturally sensitive, acceptable and realistic community based nursing services.

Graduates are expected to demonstrate PHN Competencies and characteristics of practice identified by the Quad Council (2004). Upon graduation, individuals will be qualified to sit for the exam leading to Board Certification by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) as an Advanced Public Health Nurse.

Degree Requirements

This specialty requires completion of 38 credit hours in approved courses including:

Core Courses (9 credit hours)

Cognate Courses (9 credit hours)

System Core Courses (6 credit hours)

Specialty Courses (11 credit hours)

Capstone Courses (3 credit hours)

Additional Degree Requirements

  1. Courses in the C/PHN specialty area are offered every other year.
  2. Community/Public Health Nursing courses are only offered online through Distance Education. Core and System Core courses can be taken on campus or online as published in the Schedule of Courses.
  3. A total of 540 clinical hours is required to complete the program.
  4. Faculty Advising is required.
  5. Access to computer within minimum requirements for online courses. Current minimum computer hardware specifications are listed by Distance Education online at distanceed.uncc.edu.

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