The educational process at the graduate level provides a greater depth of understanding in the areas of theory, research, leadership, clinical practice, and primary health care. Program Overview Simmons' graduate nursing program offers students the opportunity to be active participants in a NLN-accredited educational program with an established history of academic and clinical excellence. The program provides students with specialized education in primary health care nursing focusing on scholarship, practice, and research as adult nurse practitioners, parent-child nurse practitioners or family nurse practitioners. Graduates are prepared for leadership positions, research initiatives, and doctoral study. The educational program combines classroom and clinical experiences that are responsive to student needs and interests as well as to program goals.
Students participate actively in the process of teaching and learning.
Their varied experiences and knowledge are integrated into the educational process through the faculty's use of interactive teaching, seminars, tutorials, and the case-study method. Students gain clinical experience in major health care settings within the metropolitan Boston community. Students are precepted by certified nurse practitioners, and mentored by nursing faculty who are themselves certified nurse practitioners and active in clinical practice. The primary goal of the curriculum is to provide students with specialized education in primary health care nursing and the foundation necessary for scholarly inquiry, clinical excellence, research, and leadership as well as the preparation essential for doctoral study. The program is situated in the Graduate School for Health Studies which provides a unique opportunity to work and study within an interdisciplinary environment, modeling the essential team work of the health care setting.