Use data to solve real-world challenges and drive evidence-based improvements.
Advance your career with the Real-World Data and Pragmatic Research (RWD-PR) Certificate, a 12-credit, fully online program designed for nurses and health care leaders seeking to apply cutting-edge data analytics and pragmatic research to real-world challenges.
This certificate program prepares clinical experts and nurse scientists with the knowledge and skills to address critical health care challenges, including care quality, rising costs, and staffing shortages.
By leveraging pragmatic research methods and RWD, you’ll learn to evaluate interventions in real-world practice settings and utilize data from electronic health records, medical claims, and patient-reported outcomes to drive evidence-based improvements. Open to BSN-prepared nurses, current PhD and Doctor of Nursing Practice students, and those considering a doctoral program, this program empowers nurses to enhance their research capabilities and their clinical impact.
How the Program Works
- 12-credit curriculum: 3 core courses plus a data-driven practicum
- Fully online: Online modules with biweekly synchronous virtual meetings
- Interactive learning: Online classes include hands-on labs and live demonstration sessions
- Tailored practicum: Data-driven practicum arranged by the instructor in collaboration with external experts and students
What You'll Learn
- Identify real-world (RWD) health care challenges and design pragmatic research or large-scale performance improvement/quality improvement projects
- Extract, curate, and analyze RWD, such as EHR, using cutting-edge health care analytics tools
- Apply design principles to visualize the data and use visualization techniques to support informed decision-making
- Translate classroom knowledge into real-world practice through mentored, hands-on experience in the field
What You'll Do
This program equips graduates with practical skills and knowledge that can be directly applied in clinical and administrative roles. Whether you are a senior practice nurse, a health care administrator, or you are considering a doctoral program, this certificate enhances your expertise in data-driven decision-making and quality improvement.
- Apply your learning in practice — especially valuable for senior practice nurses and health care administrators, including managers, directors, and executives.
- Enhance your job performance by leveraging data analysis, patient safety, and quality improvement skills to their fullest potential.
- Integrate this certificate into a doctoral program — complete it through your PhD elective courses or apply up to two certificate courses to your DNP requirements, allowing you to graduate with both a doctoral degree and the RWD-PR Certificate.