Concentrations

Global Health 

Designed for MSN and DNP students, the Global Health Concentration provides the tools to address global health challenges. You'll engage in evidence-based practice and global leadership to make a real impact.

Key Learning Areas:

• Global disease burden and health disparities
• Effects of migration and displacement on health
• Cultural and environmental determinants of health
• Globalization's impact on health and disease patterns
• Human rights and health care access

Programs Offering This Concentration:

• MSN Students: Global Health
• DNP Students: Global Health, and  Global Practice, Policy and Leadership

For more information, contact [email protected]. 

Occupational Health Nursing 

This program is open to new applicants. Financial assistance for new OHN students is not guaranteed at this time, as funding sources are still pending. Please check back for updates or contact [email protected] for more information.

Workers are exposed to hazards and experience multiple work-related illnesses and injuries. The University of Michigan School of Nursing offers specialty training for nurses interested in maximizing workers’ health and productivity and decreasing illnesses and injuries while controlling costs.

Occupational health nursing is a challenging and rewarding sub-specialty with multiple career options in clinical practice, health services administration, higher education, and research. Occupational health nurses are employed by businesses, industry, government agencies, hospitals, clinics, their own businesses as well as colleges and universities.

Objectives

Provide for and deliver health and safety programs and services to workers, worker populations and community groups.

Promote and restore health, prevent illness and injury, and protect against work-related injuries and environmental hazards.

Requirements

The concentration requires 15 credits in addition to all required courses in the student’s selected track. These credit hours include interdisciplinary occupational health and public health courses, such as occupational and environmental health, occupational diseases, ergonomics and safety. 

Courses

• EHS 603 Occupational & Environmental Diseases (3 credits, winter term)
• EHS 601 Exposure Science and Health (3 credits fall term)
• IOE 539/EHS 552 Occupational Safety or NURS 591 Occupational Safety for Nurses (3 credits).
• EHS 556 Occupational Ergonomics (2 credits, winter term)
• NURS 572 Current and Emerging Issues in Occupational Health Nursing (2 credits, spring/summer term)
• EHS 510 Responsible Conduct of Research (1 credit, fall and winter term)
• EHS 668/IOE837 Interdisciplinary Perspectives In Occupational Health (1 credit, winter term)
• Supervised clinical practicum in occupational health (course number varies)