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. Rayna Sloane is a board-certified Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, who earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice from Chamberlain University in 2024. Dr. Sloane has been in healthcare for 26 years altogether. Dr. Sloane became an RN in 2010 and then obtained her BSN and critical care specialty certification (CCRN) in 2013. Dr. Sloane then decided to pursue the advanced-practice nurse pathway and became an acute care nurse practitioner in 2018. Dr. Sloane has worked mostly in critical care and hospital medicine and has served as a mentor and preceptor to nursing students and nurse practitioner students and in addition has taught as an adjunct clinical instructor. Dr. Sloane currently serves as a contributing faculty for Walden University.
DNP, Chamberlain University
MSN, Grand Canyon University
BSN, Grand Canyon University
Sloane, R., Kohm, D. (2018). Dear Diary: I Know What You Did While in the ICU. American Association of Critical Care Nurses
Sloane, R. (2014). The Utilization of Chlorhexidine Gluconate in the Bathing Practice of ICU Patients. American Association of Critical Care Nurses
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