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Infectious Diseases Focus of New Nursing Degrees
FROM: Kathleen Dannenhold
206-221-2456
kathyd@u.washington.edu
DATE: Sept. 14, 2001

Two new Master of Nursing degrees focusing on the detection and treatment of infection and infectious diseases have been created by the School of Nursing in response to emerging national and international problems with infectious disease and resistant infections.

The new Infectious Disease-Adult Nurse Practitioner degree (ID-ANP) and the Infectious Disease and Infection Nurse Specialist degree (IDINS) are being funded by a federal grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration. Margaret Heitkemper, chair of the Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems, was the principal author of the grant.

The ID-ANP track focuses on the links between infections and infectious diseases such as hepatitis, HIV-AIDS, and TB, within the context of chronic illness. Completion of the degree requires 18 months of full-time study, although this may be undertaken on a part-time basis. Graduates qualify to apply for licensing as a nurse practitioner with prescriptive authority in Washington State.

The IDINS track enables nurses in advanced practice to serve in leadership roles and to develop public and agency policies relevant to the control of infections and infectious disease. Graduates will be eligible to apply for clinical nurse specialist certification.

For more information, contact Judith Kelson at jkelson@u.washington.edu, or 206/543-7851, or visit http://www.son.washington.edu/eo/focal_areas.asp.

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