Student Learning Outcomes
UPON COMPLETION OF THE DOCTOR OF NURSING PRACTICE PROGRAM, THE GRADUATE WILL:
- 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.
- Demonstrates systems thinking to work collaboratively in the development, implementation, and evaluation of quality health care models.
- 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.
- Design, select, use, evaluate, and analyze quality metrics in a variety of health care settings.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.