The doctoral minor in nursing provides training to support the development of investigators with an interest in health science. Three minor options are available:

1. Patient & Family Centered Research
2. Qualitative Methods in Health Research
3. Individualized minor, with foci and courses selected by the student and nursing faculty advisor

Admissions

All graduate students must utilize the Graduate Student Portal in MyUW to add, change, or discontinue any doctoral minor.

To apply to the Nursing doctoral minor, please log in to MyUW, click on Graduate Student Portal, and then click on Add/Change Programs. Select the information for the Nursing doctoral minor. The graduate program committee will review your application for admittance.

Students may review faculty biosketches in advance of submitting their applications and are welcome to email faculty members of interest to discuss their research. If a faculty member agrees to be the student’s minor advisor, the student can indicate this on their application. If the student has not selected a faculty member in advance, the graduate program committee will identify and assign a minor advisor from the Nursing faculty. The student and minor advisor will both sign the graduate minor approval form and submit it to the Graduate Advising Manager.

Graduate minors should be approved using the process outlined above before students complete more than 2 courses intended to satisfy minor requirements.

Requirements

Grade Requirement

A grade of B or better in each course is required.

Required Courses

At least 9 credits in nursing courses are required for all nursing doctoral minors.

Students may choose to focus their coursework in one of two pathways: Patient & Family Centered Research or Qualitative Methods in Health Research. These pathways are internal to the program and represent different curricular paths a student can follow to earn this minor.

Patient & Family Centered Research

Qualitative Methods in Health Research