Graduate School of Nursing and Health Professions
The 3 Ps of Advanced Practice
Antioch and Otterbein University Work Together to Provide Quality Nursing Education
The excellence that has distinguished Otterbein’s graduate nursing programs for the last 45 years is now available across the nation with more hybrid and online learning options than before, thanks to the bold, new work of the Coalition for the Common Good.
This partnership allows you new opportunities to advance your career in nursing.
Antioch University’s Department of Nursing is committed to quality nursing education that uses a holistic caring framework to promote excellence and safe healthcare. We encourage the personal and professional development of faculty, staff, and students, as well as an appreciation for diverse perspectives and humane values. Our goal is to prepare lifelong learners committed to the profession and the community, and to meeting society’s changing healthcare needs.
“Antioch has always been a place where learning is connected to social action. Our nursing programs bring that philosophy into healthcare.”
Regina Prusinski, DNP, CPNP-AC, FNP-BC
founding Director of the Nursing Programs at Antioch University
Your Path to Study the Three P’s of Advanced Practice
You can start your advanced degree at Otterbein with the support of the Dayton Foundation, which is offering five scholarships to help you continue your journey.
Otterbein’s Three P’s of Advanced Practice form the foundational science core for advanced practice roles. These flexible, asynchronous courses are tailored for working professionals, deepening clinical expertise in comprehensive health assessments, understanding disease mechanisms, and mastering pharmacological therapies. Taught by experienced advanced practice nurses active in clinical settings, each course prepares you to deliver high-quality, patient-centered care across the lifespan.
Advanced Pharmacology for the Advanced Practice Nurse
Builds on fundamental concepts of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. Focuses on the essentials of drug action, clinical use, side effects, adverse reactions, and rational drug selection for specific drug classes treating select disease processes. Client education, medication administration, interactions with herbal or nutritional remedies, and lifestyle modifications are included across the lifespan or for special populations.
Advanced Physical and Health Assessment for the Advanced Practice Nurse
Builds on basic physical assessment concepts to include episodic, focused, and comprehensive health assessments for individuals across the lifespan. Integrates concepts of genetics/genomics, culture, and lifestyles in the identification of risk factors. Focuses on therapeutic communication within a caring framework with individuals and families to assemble a comprehensive health assessment database, including family, psychosocial, diagnostic, and physical findings. Emphasis is on critically analyzing the data in order to determine differential diagnoses and establishing an accurate assessment
of the health status.
Advanced Pathophysiology for the Advanced Practice Nurse
Builds on knowledge of basic pathophysiology to examine current understanding of cell and tissue mechanisms that cause disease, and how these produce the symptoms and signs that we recognize clinically. The processes of cell adaptation and injury, including apoptosis, necrosis, aging, thromboembolism, ischemia, infarction, fluid and chemical imbalances, neuroendocrine abnormalities, inflammation, infection, immune dysfunction, genetic abnormalities, and malignancy, will be studied, illustrated by disease examples and case studies. Additionally, the global burden of disease will be considered, including infections, infestations, malnutrition, and obesity.
Nursing & Health Professions
The programs in Antioch University’s Graduate School of Nursing and Health Professions empower students to challenge the status quo and drive transformative change in healthcare. Our programs prepare compassionate and skilled health professionals. Join us to lead the movement for equity and justice in healthcare.
Meet Our Faculty
Julie Young, PhD, ATC
Core Faculty
Allison B. Smith PhD, ATC, LAT
Faculty
Diane White, PhD, RN
Dean
Kalyn Jasinski, DAT, LAT, ATC
Core Faculty
Jeffrey Fouche-Camargo, DNP, APRN, WHNP-BC
Director of DNP Program
Gifty Akomea Key, EdD
Chair
Nadiya Ali Timperman
Faculty
Regina Prusinski, DNP, CPNP-AC, FNP-BC
Chair
Start your Antioch Journey
Take your next step - talk to our admissions team to find the right program for you.