View our EdD Early Childhood specialization completion requirements
Minimum degree requirements:
60 quarter credits
- Core courses (50 cr.)
- Capstone (10 cr.)
Minimum degree requirements:
60 quarter credits
Courses
In the EdD Early Childhood Education specialization, you’ll build skills and progress toward your final capstone project in every course.
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Camilla M. Jaekel received her PhD in Nursing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in May 2012. She currently serves as an Adult Medical/Surgical Clinical Nurse Specialist at Mayo Clinic Health System Franciscan Healthcare in LaCrosse, WI. In her current role with MCHS-FH, Camilla serves as a resource for nursing leadership, nursing staff and members of other disciplines to align practice with current research findings and enhance healthcare knowledge to standardize practice. Her work is also grounded in the use of information technology to optimize efficiencies in documentation of the nursing process and data retrieval to continually improve care.
NURS 6051 - Transforming Nursing and Healthcare Through Information Technology
BSN, Viterbo University
MSN, Viterbo University
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Jaekel, C., Paar, C., Schiltz, J., Peterson, R. (2009). Care of the trauma patient beyond the Emergency Department: A patient care standard to guide bedside nurses. Journal of Trauma Nursing
Jaekel, C. (2018). A Nurse Finds Pilgrimage to Be Pathway to Renewal. Health Progress: Journal of the Catholic Health Association of the United States
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