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Degree Programs
   

HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE MASTER’S EDUCATION PROGRAMS  updated September 2009

 

The schools listed offer a variety of programs.  Please go to their site for additional information.

Disclaimer:  The listing of a school of nursing on this site does not indicate endorsement by the HPNA.

 

Master's degree Program grid (pdf file)

 

 

PROGRAM

CONTACT

FUNDED

STATUS

STARTED

PREP

#STUDENTS

HOURS

COMMENTS

Boston College

Boston, MA

Patricia Tabloski

 

Katie Tardiff

617-552-0540

tardiffk@bc.edu

 

 

 

 

 

 

45 credit

Goals of program to educate APN students (NP and CNS) in Palliative Care

Daemen

Amherst, NY

Catherine Mann

 

Cmann1@

Daemen.edu  

 

 

 

Seeking interested candidates for January 2011 cohort

2000

Post-Master’s

Certificate

Approx. 20 graduates

32 credits

Originally a CNS program – use competency template

George Washington University

Washington, DC

Beverly Lunsford

 

hcsbkl@gwumc.edu

 

 

2009

Post Masters

PCNP

 

MSN Field of

Study

4 Students

 

 

3 Students

14 CR

 

 

14 CR

Online Program; designed to be completed in three semesters

Loyola

Chicago, IL

Maryjo Letizia

 

mletizi@luc.edu

 

 

 

2005

 

12-15 students each time course has been taught

2 credits

I online palliative care course, available each spring semester to all MSN students but required of Loyola Oncology CNS students

Madonna

University

Livonia, MI

Nancy O’Connor

 

noconnor@

madonna.edu

 

 

 

 

 

2003-2004

DUAL ANP/PC

NP – post masters options

10 graduates;

25 current

Part-time

students

ANP/PC

774 hrs

Total 55

Credits

ACNP/PC 729

Hrs. total 55

credits

Hospice education program was trailblazer

Marquette,

Milwaukee, WI

Judith Miller

 

Judith.miller@

Marquette.edu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New York University

New York, NY

Dorothy Wholihan

 

DW57@nyu.edu

 

 

HRSA

 

1998

Adult Primary Care/Palliative Care

 

Post-Master’s

Palliative Care

36

1000 hrs

57 credits

 

500 hr.

12 credit

A joint Adult Primary/Pall Care allows graduates to sit for both certification exams upon graduation

University of Alabama

Tuscaloosa, AL

 

Pam Fordham

fordhamp@uab.edu

 

 

      HRSA

online

2003

Dual – CNS or FNP/PC

Post MSN

    32

As of 7/06

 

675

HPNA APN and NONPF Competencies provide framework

University of Calif. –SF

San Francisco, CA

Mary Lynch/Betty Davies

 

mary.lynch@

Nursing.ucsf.edu

 

 

HRSA

 

7/2005

Acute Care PNP

6 (2005)

14 (2006)

600

PEDIATRIC ONLY

Univ. of Illinois,

Chicago, IL

Diana Wilke

 

diwilkie@uic.edu

HRSA

 

2004

CNS/NP dual

15 now; 6 coming in Sept

500 hrs

 

University of Mass., Lowell, MA

Betty Morgan

 

Betty_morgan@uml.edu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

Program Director:  Mary Ersek

ersekm@nursing.upenn.edu

 

For general questions re: admission to U Penn, financial aid etc. Andrea Allmayer

allmayer@nursing.upenn.edu

 

Website:

Httgp://www.nursing.upenn.edu/academic_programs/

 

 

Original program revised in 2008-09 to strengthen preparation to meet ACHPN core competencies

2003

The minor is designed to be incorporated into the program of study in one of 15 Master’s programs offered by the School or to be taken as a Post-Master’s Certificate

12-15 year

3-1 credit seminar courses

Although the Minor is housed in the School of Nursing, learning experiences incorporate perspective of interdisciplinary faculty from various clinical settings, including Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Wissahickon Hospice, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Ursuline

Pepper Pike, OH

Murray Mayo

 

mmayo@

ursuline.edu

 

 

 

MSN on site;

Post masters on line/ intensive

1997

CNS/NP

30+

MSN is 600  prac-ticum hrs; 39 credit

Post MSN is 500 hours; 21 cr

NONPF competencies provide framework

University of Maryland

College Park, MD

Deb McGuire

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vanderbilt,

Nashville, TN

Dr. Jim Pace

jim.pace@

Vanderbilt.edu  

 

 

HRSA

2004-

2008

Distance

Learning

Option

2004

ANP/PC,

Post-

Masters

Option

Available

 

6-10/Year

39

Semester hours;

770 Clinical

Hours

Modified

Block

Curriculum

Walden

Baltimore, MD

Mary Dominquez

 

Mary.dominquez@

waldenu.edu