Student Learning Outcomes

UPON COMPLETION OF THE DOCTOR OF NURSING PRACTICE PROGRAM, THE GRADUATE WILL:

1. Integrate nursing science with knowledge from ethics, the biophysical, psychosocial, analytical, and organizational sciences as the basis to attend to health and illness experiences of individuals, groups, and communities.
2. Demonstrates systems thinking to work collaboratively in the development, implementation, and evaluation of quality health care models.
3. Use analytic methods to critically appraise literature and evidence from the health sciences in the development of practice guidelines and deliverance of direct patient care to individuals, groups, and communities.
4. Design, select, use, evaluate, and analyze quality metrics in a variety of health care settings.
5. Demonstrate leadership in the evaluation and resolution of ethical and legal issues within healthcare systems relating to the use of information, information technology, communication networks, and patient care technology.
6. Demonstrate leadership in the development and implementation of institutional, local, state, federal, and/or international health policy through critical appraisal of health policy proposals, health policies, and related issues.
7. Formulate and deliver population focused health care on the basis of synthesis of epidemiological, biostatistical, environmental, psychosocial dimensions, and cultural diversity and evaluation of health care delivery models.
8. Contribute to professional nursing through leadership, education, and advocacy within the policy and healthcare communities.

Requirements

• NUR606 Applied Statistics for Evidence Based Practice (3)
• NUR608 Theoretical Foundations in Leadership and Health (3)
• NUR610 Organizational Theory and Health Care Management (2)
• NUR612 Environmental and Genetic Influences on Health (2)
• NUR614 Ethical Issues in Advanced Nursing Practice (2)
• NUR616 Leadership Development (3)
• NUR618 Informatics and Related Technology for Advanced Practice (2)
• NUR621 Scholarly Writing in Health Care (2)
• NUR623 Research for Evidence Based Practice (3)
• NUR625 Public Policy and Health Care Financing (3)
• NUR631 Nursing Education for the DNP Nurse (2)
• NUR640 Practicum I (1)
• NUR641 Practicum II (2)
• NUR642 Practicum III Scholarly Project Guidance (6)

TOTAL PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS = 36

NUR640, NUR641 and NUR642 Practicum

Students are required to complete 500 post-Master’s supervised practice immersion as part of the development of the Scholarly Project. The immersion will be completed over multiple terms of enrollment.

Additional information for graduate Nursing programs: Admissions Requirements; Course Repeats; Time Limitations; Requirements for Graduation – consult the Nursing Department web page.

Course Sequence

Access the course sequence for the Doctor of Nursing Practice from the Nursing Department web page.