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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Dr. Nancy Hadley is a Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner with a dual certification as a Board Certified Emergency Nurse Practitioner. She has more than 32 years experience in the nursing profession. Throughout her career, Dr. Hadley has taught both nursing staff as well as nursing students. For the past ten years Dr. Hadley has been an instructor in the Walden College of Health Sciences, MSN Family Nurse Practitioner program and for the past year is the Academic Program Coordinator in the MSN program. She serves on the Curriculum Development Committee.
Dr. Hadley is a member of the American Nurses Association and Texas Emergency Nurses Association and is affiliated with the local Advanced Practice Nursing Association. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau and volunteers with the San Antonio Conservation Society. She has been a recipient of the Nursing Image Maker award. Dr. Hadley continues to serve her community in a rural hospital emergency department.
NUR 6531 - Adv.Practice Care of Adults
NUR 6551 - Primary Care of Women
NUR 6561 - Direct Care Role in Health Promotion
DNP, University of Alabama
Masters Degree, University of Texas Health Science Center-San Antonio
BS, University of Texas Health Science Center-San Antonio
BS, Excelsior College
AS, San Antonio College
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