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    Sacramento, CA 95817
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  • 250 Mrak Hall
    One Shields Avenue
    Davis, CA 95616

    Phone: (530) 752-0650
    Fax: (530) 752-6222
Nursing Science and Health-Care Leadership (Master of Science)

Application Deadline

  • 2013 ADMISSION
  • Priority: Jan. 15
  • Final: May 31

    2013 FELLOWSHIP
  • Prospective Student Fellowship: Jan. 15
  • Continuing Student Fellowship: Dec. 1

Degrees Offered

  • M.S. Plan I

Designated Emphases

Admission Requirements

  • How to Apply?
  • Complete Graduate Studies Application
  • Licensure as an R.N. (Registered Nurse)
  • Bachelor's degree in Nursing or related field
  • Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0

Degree Requirements

Students follow the degree requirements reflecting the year s/he was admitted or the most recent version below.

Administrative Bylaws

Students gain advanced knowledge of model health-care systems; effective, efficient and responsive health-care policy; organizational change practices; informatics; implementation science; effective leadership; community health; public health; nutrition; biostatistics; epidemiology; gerontology; rural health; and health disparities. Students graduate with qualitative and quantitative skills necessary for professional research and teaching in health-care and health policy.

Graduates of the professional master's degree program will be well prepared for health-care leadership roles in a variety of organizations and as nurse faculty at the community college and prelicensure education levels. The doctoral program prepares graduates as health-care and health policy leaders and nurse faculty/researchers at the university level.

This program is an interdisciplinary Graduate Group.

For more information, visit the Nursing Science and Health-Care Leadership (Master of Science) website.

Contacts

Program Chair
Paul G FitzGerald Med Human Anatomy (530) 752-7130
Academic Advisers
Ester Carolina Apesoa-Varano
(Adviser: General)
Nursing Science and Health-Care Leadership (Doctor of Philosophy) 9/1/11 - 8/31/13 (916) 734-1159
Debra Bakerjian
(Adviser: General)
Nursing Science and Health-Care Leadership 9/1/11 - 8/31/13 (916) 949-8291
Jeri Bigbee
(Adviser: General)
Nursing Science and Health-Care Leadership (Doctor of Philosophy) 9/1/12 - 8/31/14 (916) 734-8831
Mary Lou de Leon Siantz
(Adviser: General)
Nursing Science and Health-Care Leadership (Doctor of Philosophy) 9/1/12 - 8/31/14 (916) 734-7488
Jill Joseph
(Adviser: General)
Nursing Science and Health-Care Leadership (Doctor of Philosophy) 9/1/12 - 8/31/14 (916) 734-7315
Kenneth Kizer
(Adviser: General)
Nursing Science and Health-Care Leadership (Doctor of Philosophy) 9/1/12 - 8/31/14 (916) 734-4754
Jann Murray-Garcia
(Adviser: General)
Nursing Science and Health-Care Leadership 9/1/11 - 8/31/13 (916) 734-2145
Alberto Odor
(Adviser: General)
9/1/12 - 8/31/14 (916) 734-8373
Elena Siegel
(Adviser: Admissions and General)
Nursing Science and Health-Care Leadership (Doctor of Philosophy) 9/1/12 - 8/31/14 (916) 734-2145
Deborah Ward
(Adviser: Primary Contact)
Nursing Science and Health-Care Leadership (Doctor of Philosophy) 9/1/12 - 8/31/14 (916) 734-2145
Heather Young
(Adviser: Primary Contact)
Nursing Science and Health-Care Leadership (Doctor of Philosophy) 9/1/12 - 8/31/14 (916) 734-2145
Graduate Program Staff Coordinator
Anna Libonati Nursing Science and Health-Care Leadership (Ph.D. and M.S.) (916) 734-2145
Mercedes Piedra-Sullivan Nursing Science and Health-Care Leadership (Outreach Coordinator) (916) 734-2145
Student Affairs Officer (SAO) in the Office of Graduate Studies
Laura Young Office of Graduate Studies (530) 752-2772