Graduate School of Nursing and Health Professions
Advanced Practice Science Core Programs
Educating Nursing Professionals to Champion Equitable Healthcare for All
Starting in January 2026, graduate nursing programs originally developed and offered by Otterbein University, recognized for its excellence in nursing education for more than 45 years, will be delivered fully online and nationwide by Antioch University, expanding access to aspiring healthcare leaders across the country.
With the transition of Otterbein’s respected graduate nursing and health professions programs, Antioch aims to foster programmatic growth through collaboration and a shared vision for equity in healthcare.
This partnership allows you new opportunities to advance your career in nursing.
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“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
Antioch's Advanced Practice Science Core Programs (3Ps 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.
Dayton Foundation Scholarship Opportunity
Interested students living in the Dayton, Ohio area are eligible and welcome to apply for a special scholarship from The Dayton Foundation to support enrolling in the 3Ps programs. To learn more and apply for this special opportunity, please connect with our Admissions representative.
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
Gifty Akomea Key, EdD
Chair
Kalyn Jasinski, DAT, LAT, ATC
Core Faculty
Paige Ciminello, DAT, ATC
Clinical Education Coordinator
Julie Young, PhD, ATC
Core Faculty
Regina Prusinski, DNP, CPNP-AC, FNP-BC
Chair
Allison B. Smith PhD, ATC, LAT
Faculty
Diane White, PhD, RN
Dean
Jeffrey Fouche-Camargo, DNP, APRN, WHNP-BC
Director of DNP Program
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