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The online Ph.D. in Health Sciences program prepares professionals to become leaders who can discover and disseminate new knowledge in the allied health sciences.  The curriculum provides students with the skills needed to teach, practice, and perform research to advance the science and practice of health care.  Coursework includes education, leadership, research, and statistics as students achieve professional development in areas that match their professional interests.

Advance your career in healthcare with this online health science degree.  This program is designed for experienced professionals who are looking to increase their knowledge of immunohematology and related disciplines.  Expand your job opportunities by becoming a specialist in blood bank technology, performing and supervising routine and specialized tests.  Working in both blood centers and hospital-based transfusion, you may perform such tasks as:

• Blood collection and processing
• Investigating abnormalities
• Supporting physicians in transfusion therapy
• Teaching
• Testing for blood group antigens

Graduates are prepared for the SBB and diplomat in laboratory management certification examinations offered by the American Society for Clinical Pathology Board of Certification.

Students may enroll in this certificate program while also completing the Master of Science in Clinical Laboratory Management.

Advance your healthcare career with this master’s in health science online degree.  This program is designed for practicing medical laboratory scientists who want a formal education but don’t want to have to interrupt their current careers or personal lives.  Gain a practical approach to managing the daily aspects of the clinical laboratory, becoming supervisory personnel in a variety of settings.  Courses, constructed with input from experts in the field to ensure they contain the latest information, cover such topics as:

• Management principles and quality management
• Organizational structure and management functions
• Managerial decision-making and process improvement
• Compliance and regulatory issues
• Health care informatics

This online health science degree can be completed with or without earning the specialist in blood bank technology certificate program.

After graduating and completing two years of full-time experience in clinical laboratory supervision or management, students are eligible to take the diplomate in laboratory management exam given by the American Society for Clinical Pathology Board of Certification.

Do you want to take your nursing career to the next level while working in pediatrics?  The DNP Acute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner degree online from Rush University can help you attain these goals.  

This program prepares students to treat infants, children, adolescents, and young adults with complex acute, critical, and chronic health conditions.  The curriculum provides the knowledge and skills needed to meet this population’s specialized physiologic and psychological needs in a variety of settings.  Whether you decide to work in an inpatient and outpatient hospital, emergency care, or home care setting, you will be able to expertly offer complex monitoring and manage intensive therapies.  As you study and work you will uncover specialty areas of practice that you may want to enter.

This program also provides a BSN to DNP path for RNs with just a bachelor's degree to earn their DNP.

The Doctor of Nursing Practice in Advanced Public Health Nursing is an online nurse practitioner degree from Rush University.  This program builds on traditional clinical master’s programs by delving deeper into content areas that improve population outcomes.  Students gain skills in assessing, planning, and evaluating nursing interventions for individuals, families, communities, and clinical populations.  You will study evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and systems leadership.  This degree focuses on:

• Health promotion
• Primary prevention
• Program management

Graduates are specialists in public health nursing, developing policies and interventions that will improve both the health and healthcare of communities and populations.

This program also provides a BSN to DNP path for RNs with just a bachelor's degree to earn their DNP.

The DNP Mental Health Nurse Practitioner degree from Rush University is an online psychiatric nursing program.  This degree prepares students to function autonomously in clinical settings, serving as the primary mental health care provider for patients.  This is a very lucrative field that is always in need of more professionals since there are not enough graduates to fill the available positions.  

In this psychiatric nurse practitioner degree students study the behavioral and biological disciplines and apply this knowledge and the skills learned to treating psychiatric disorders.  You will learn to care for individuals, families, and groups of all ages and with all types of mental illnesses and diseases.  Using evidence-based practice, students learn to work both independently and collaboratively with other members of the health care team to provide comprehensive health care treatment and ensuring the best possible outcomes for patients.  

This program also provides a BSN to DNP path for RNs with just a bachelor's degree to earn their DNP.

The DNP Neonatal Nurse Practitioner degree online from Rush University is for those nurses seeking to advance their careers to the highest level possible while specializing in this acute care role.  In this position nurses provide care for high-risk infants from birth through two years of age, working collaboratively with an interprofessional team to ensure optimal patient care for the infants and their families.  The curriculum provides the knowledge and skills needed to competently meet the physiologic health care needs of critically ill and convalescing neonates in inpatient neonatal settings.  Courses include the study of pathophysiology, assessment, pharmacology, and physiology-based management. 

Graduates are able to meet the following responsibilities:

• Delivery room resuscitation
• Intubation and non-invasive respiratory management
• Lumbar puncture
• Umbilical line placement and suturing
• Pleural needle aspiration

This program also provides a BSN to DNP path for RNs with just a bachelor's degree to earn their DNP.

The DNP in Transformative Leadership-Population Health is an online nursing administration degree from Rush University.  The degree is designed for nurses seeking to advance their careers while working to enhance clinical health outcomes for populations of interest.  The curriculum provides knowledge and skills that you will use to gather information on populations that can then be used to improve their healthcare, focusing on clinical and vulnerable populations.  Courses teach students how to use the knowledge gained to assess the population’s health and illness needs and then develop, implement, and evaluate population-focused interventions that will address those needs. 

Emphasis is placed on:

• Health promotion
• Strategic implementation of levels of prevention
• Program management
• Program evaluation

The Nursing Leadership-Clinical Nurse Leader MSN from Rush University is an online nursing administration degree for RNs with bachelor’s degrees that want to advance their careers.  This program prepares students to take on the leadership and accountability for the health outcomes of clients in a variety of clinical settings.  You will work on promoting health, reducing risk, and improving point-of-care outcomes as a patient advocate committed to high quality care.  Courses help students learn to be competent and knowledgeable across the continuum of care and teach them to use evidence-based practice to ensure the latest innovations are used in patient care.  Graduates are ready to serve in various healthcare settings, assuming formal leadership roles in acute and outpatient settings and implementing quality improvement measures to ensure the best possible patient outcomes.

Rush University offers a Post Graduate Certificate in Acute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner degree online for those who are experienced advanced practice registered nurses.  This program builds on the knowledge and skillset you already possess as you study to meet the needs of infants through young adults with complex acute, critical, and chronic health conditions.  You will learn to provide care for this population’s specialized physiologic and psychological needs.  This could include providing complex monitoring and managing intensive therapies as you collaborate with an interprofessional team to ensure the best patient care. 

Graduates work in a variety of settings, including:

• Emergency care
• Critical care
• Specialty service
• Transport team
• Acute care home service

Are you an advanced practice registered nurse seeking to advance your career while specializing in neonatal care?  The Post-Graduate Certificate in Neonatal Nurse Practitioner degree online from Rush University can help you achieve your goals.

With this degree you will be collaborating with neonatologists to provide advance practice nursing care to critically ill and convalescing infants and their families.  The curriculum prepares students to practice in normal newborn, intermediate, and intensive care settings, performing such tasks as evaluating diagnostic and clinical data, attending high-risk deliveries, collaborating with interprofessional team members, and supporting and educating caregivers.  Graduates have the clinical skills necessary to perform such tasks as:

• Intubation
• Lumbar puncture
• Percutaneous arterial line insertion
• Umbilical line insertion