ONLINE/DISTANCE LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

Bachelor's Degree Program for Registered Nurses
The OHSU School of Nursing strongly supports RNs who want to return to school to complete their degree. Various options have been developed to allow RNs to pursue further their education and the program continues to strive to be more flexible and accessible. RNs can take courses using a variety of formats including online, attending two-day intensives, by challenge exam and portfolio, and on campus.

Master of Public Health
The OHSU School of Nursing offers a Master of Public Health program focusing on primary health care and health disparities. This program is one of the tracks of the Oregon MPH Program and is a totally online program supported by a federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grant since 2001.

Over the last year, the MPH program has undergone some significant changes. The MPH program has joined in a collaborative relationship with the OHSU Center for Health Disparities Research. The Center's projects are focused on community-based participatory research with diverse racial and ethnic groups and other underserved populations (e.g. rural poor). The mission of the Center is to use sustainable community-academic research collaborations to stimulate research and develop new knowledge focused on understanding and eventually eliminating disparities in health care and outcomes for urban and rural racial and ethnic minority and other underserved populations.

The program has received approval to pilot three courses. They are tentatively titled Cultural Competence in Health and Healing, Community Based Participatory Research, and Policy Implications of Social Inequality & the Ethical Practice of Public Health. These courses are slated to be offered in Spring 2005.

Please see the Web page dedicated to the Online Master of Public Health for more information.

Please send questions about program information to proginfo@ohsu.edu.

To learn more about how online/distance learning is delivered at OHSU School of Nursing, click here.