Graduate School of Nursing and Health Professions
Advanced Practice Patho, Pharm, and Physical Assessment: The 3Ps
Educating Nursing Professionals to Champion Equitable Healthcare for All
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 who are committed to the profession and the community, and to meet society’s evolving healthcare needs.
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 Ps of Advanced Practice: Patho, Pharm, and Physical Assessment
Antioch's Advanced Practice 3Ps 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. This program allows working nurses to get a step ahead in their graduate education while completing a year of patient care experience. Taught by experienced advanced practice nurses active in clinical settings, each course prepares you to deliver equitable, high-quality patient-centered care across the lifespan.
Advanced Pharmacology for the Advanced Practice Nurse
This course provides a comprehensive foundation in advanced pharmacology with a focus on safe, evidence-based medication management for common acute and chronic conditions across
the lifespan. Building on the principles of pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and pharmacogenetics, students will explore the mechanisms of drug action, clinical applications, side effects, adverse reactions, interactions with
herbal, nutritional, and lifestyle factors, and rational drug selection within and across therapeutic drug classes. Legal aspects of prescriptive authority are addressed, along with strategies for aligning medication management with diagnosis, pathophysiology, and health promotion and maintenance goals. Special considerations for vulnerable and diverse populations are addressed, integrating social determinants of health and cultural factors into medication management.
Advanced Physical and Health Assessment for the Advanced Practice Nurse
This course builds on basic physical assessment concepts to include focused and comprehensive health assessments for individuals across the lifespan. Integrating concepts of social determinants of health, genetics/genomics, culture, and lifestyles in the identification of risk factors, this course focuses on therapeutic communication in a caring framework with individuals and families to assemble a health assessment database, including family, psychosocial, diagnostic, and physical findings. Emphasis is placed on clinical reasoning by critically analyzing the data to determine differential diagnoses, establishing an accurate assessment of the health status, and accurately documenting the encounter.
Advanced Pathophysiology for the Advanced Practice Nurse
In this course, students are oriented to disease as disordered physiology within integrated biological systems. The course provides a foundation of pathophysiology for assessment, diagnostic reasoning, and clinical decision-making in the management of common acute, episodic, chronic, and heritable/genetic conditions. The approach emphasizes attainment and maintenance of full health potential as a goal of health equity. Social determinants of health and cultural considerations are woven throughout this course.
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 enrollment 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
Diane White, PhD, RN
Dean
Allison B. Smith PhD, ATC, LAT
Faculty
Ashley Simons, DPT
Adjunct Faculty
Nadiya Ali Timperman
Program Director, Clinical Faculty
Kalyn Jasinski, DAT, LAT, ATC
Core Faculty
Gifty Akomea Key, EdD
Chair
Paige Ciminello, DAT, ATC
Clinical Education Coordinator
Julie Young, PhD, ATC
Core Faculty
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