Advanced Public Health Nursing (APHN)
The Advanced Public Health Nursing (APHN) Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program has a population-based focus, with interventions directed to the community or population as a whole. You will develop skills in assessing, planning and evaluating interventions and policies for communities and clinical populations. APHNs bring work as a bridge between clinical health care and public health and prevention initiatives.
The Advanced Public Health Nursing Program emphasizes:
- Health promotion and primary prevention
- Population assessment and epidemiology
- Data based program and policy development
- Program management and evaluation
- Stakeholder engagement and intervention sustainability
Our curriculum builds on education in the following content areas that will lead to improved population outcomes in complex systems:
- Evidence-based practice
- Quality improvement
- Systems leadership
- Policy development
- Public health sciences
After graduating the APHN program, you will be prepared to function as a public health nursing specialist who develops policies and interventions to improve the health and health care of communities and populations.
Part-Time & Full Time
Online
Career Options
APHN graduates are prepared as leaders for a wide variety of roles, including the following:
- Program manager/director in community and public health settings, including
- Home health/hospice
- Workplace health
- Local and state health departments
- School health settings
- Population health programs
- Program providing care to vulnerable population, such as people experiencing homelessness, immigrants/refugees, and those lacking medical insurance or access to appropriate care
Tuition Pricing
As a top ranked college of nursing, RUSH programs are competitively priced on a local and national level.