Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt University School of Nursing is noted for being one of the premier schools to have nurse practioners and nurses with advance practice training working with doctors and in nursing agencies. A number of entry options into the School of Nursing are provided by Vanderbilt. One of those is the "bridge" program that other schools throughout the country have used as a guide. With Vanderbilt's up-to-date nursing informatics laboratory, their ongoing application of developing science like the use of patient simulators in their classes and PDA's available in patients' rooms, they've proven to be a technological innovative leader. Vanderbilt School of Nursing has established working relationships with an international spectrum of nursing schools as well as having a substantial nurse faculty network of clinics that they own or have an affiliation with at their disposal.

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Academic Programs

Specialties Master of Science in Nursing (MSN)

Advanced practice nurses who wish to assume a critical position in enabling universal access to health care for all can enroll in Vanderbilt's Academic Programs/Specialties Master of Science in Nursing (MSN). Here you will find a fast course of study, a number of entry options, programs for nurses and non-nurses, as well as a number of ways to study without the necessity of relocating. Select your advanced practice specialty that fits your passions.

PhD in Nursing Science

This course gets students ready for researcher and professor jobs in large universities.

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)

Based on the Vanderbilt School of Nursing’s globally honored senior practice nursing programs, the DNP program gives a different spin to a study-focused doctorate with education in evidence-based study, making quality systems, and thinking better.

Post-Master's Certificates

These can be obtained by the nurse practitioner in a number of specialty areas, such as specialty care, adult, familial care, neonatal, children's medicine, psychiatric-mental health, and women’s health, and in informatics, managing health-systems, and midwife practices.

Postdoctoral Program Students who participate in the two-year program have the opportunity to further their learning in their research specialties, conduct successful research projects within their discipline, improve writing and communication skills and form new networking contacts.

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