DNP Program Outcomes
Building on current master's nursing program curricula, students in this post-master's DNP program are prepared at the most advanced level of nursing practice. Graduates are educated to effectively advance the management of individuals, families, and populations; improve the safety and quality of patient care; apply informatics to practice and health care problems; administer health care programs and organizations; and develop and implement health policy.
At the completion of the DNP program, the graduate:
- practices at the highest level of nursing by integrating nursing science with ethics and the biophysical, psychosocial, analytical, organizational and public health sciences;
- demonstrates organizational and systems leadership for quality and safety in health care systems;
- utilizes clinical scholarship and analytical methods for evidence-based practice;
- applies information systems and technology for the provision and/or transformation of health care;
- leverages transdisciplinary collaboration for the improvement of individual and population health outcomes;
- utilizes strategies of risk reduction/illness prevention, health promotion, and health maintenance for individuals and populations; and
- develops, evaluates, advocates and provides leadership for health care policy that shapes health care financing, regulation, access, and delivery.
Course of Study
The 38-credit DNP program includes 18 credits of required DNP core, 12 credits of elective in the student's focus specialty area, and 8 credits for the required capstone project.
The DNP begins in the fall only.
First Semester
NR 210.803 Nursing Inquiry for Evidence Based Practice 3
NR 210.802 Advanced Nursing Health Policy 3
NR 210.801 Analytic Approaches for Outcomes Management: Individuals & Populations 3
NR 210.896 Capstone Project I 1
Second Semester
NR 210.804 Organizational and Systems Leadership for Quality Care 3
NR 210.805 Translating Evidence to Practice 3
NR 210.806 Health Economics and Finance 3
NR 210.897 Capstone Project II 1
Third Semester
NR 210.898 Capstone Project III 3
Electives 6 *
Fourth Semester
NR 210.899 Capstone Project IV 3
Electives 6 *
* Electives may be taken at the School of Nursing, School of Medicine, Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Carey Business School.
