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UW Offers Electronic Classrooms for Regional
Nurses to Improve Community Health
Media contact:
Pam Sowers, (206) 543-3620
sowerspl@u.washington.edu

Advanced degrees are within reach for nurses working in rural areas of the Puget Sound region. Nurses in communities ranging from the Olympic Peninsula to Whatcom and Thurston counties can earn advanced degrees through a new e-learning program offered by the University of Washington School of Nursing in Seattle.

The distance learning option makes a Master's degree in Community Health Nursing accessible for registered nurses in the rural Puget Sound region through a combination of online study, occasional Saturday classes on campus and video conferencing from sites located in Port Angeles, Bremerton, Skagit County and south Puget Sound.

The school offers a generalist program in Advanced Practice Community Health Systems Nursing. Students may also specialize in healthy aging, cross-cultural health, communities for youth, occupational health and rural health, or they may build customized programs. Students can also earn a master's in both nursing and public health. Faculty are readily available to mentor students.

The program prepares nurse leaders in community health promotion and program development and evaluation, and for careers in nursing policy, education and health administration.

Students can begin graduate study without enrolling in the masteršs in nursing degree program by applying as a graduate non-matriculated (GNM) student. Up to 12 credits earned as a GNM may be applied toward a degree.

The deadline for fall registration is Sept. 28. More information about the Advanced Practice in Community Health Nursing Systems program is presented at the UW School of Nursing information sessions, held once a month on the Seattle campus. For more details, visit www.son.washington.edu/eo/info_infosessions.asp.

For more information about the program, visit www.son.washington.edu/eo/apchs or call 206-685-1288. The program is funded in part by the Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration.

U.S. News & World Report has rated the UW School of Nursing No. 1 in the nation for the past several years.

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