Doctor of Nursing Practice

Advance your career with a doctorate in nursing practice

Is your passion for patient care leading you to pursue a career as a nurse practitioner? Are you ready to transform the quality, safety, accessibility, and affordability of patient care? Are you interested in a new career path or a higher-level role in your organization? The ongoing, dramatic transformation of healthcare calls for nurses prepared at the highest level, ready to guide system and/or population-level reforms across the healthcare industry landscape.

 

Explore our DNP program tracks

BSN-DNP Nurse Practitioner

Prepare to provide advanced nursing care to patients and their families by choosing from four program tracks

Post-MSN DNP

Improve population health outcomes or develop the skills for a career in high-level administration and management with our post-MSN DNP program tracks

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DNP Student Projects

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Program learning outcomes

Domain 1: Knowledge for Nursing Practice: Synthesize knowledge from nursing and related disciplines to inform clinical judgment and innovation in advanced nursing practice. 

Domain 2: Person-Centered Care: Practice to the full scope of education using effective communication and a systematic approach to coordinate person-centered care, empower advanced decision making, and promote self-care management. 

Domain 3: Population Health: Improve population health outcomes through partnerships, advocacy, and policies that improve health equity within systems and at local, regional, national, and global levels. 

Domain 4: Scholarship for the Nursing Discipline: Advance the science of nursing through ethical scholarship and innovative and evidence-based approaches that advance the profession, improve health, and transform healthcare. 

Domain 5: Quality and Safety: Apply quality improvement principles to establish a culture of patient, provider, and work environment safety to reduce and mitigate risk, safeguard care delivery, and improve nursing practice outcomes. 

 

Domain 6: Interprofessional Partnerships: Facilitate a climate of mutual respect, improved communication, and quality collaboration within interprofessional teams that optimize care delivery.  

Domain 7: Systems-Based Practice: Lead and respond to changes in complex systems through policy and coordination of resources for diverse populations in an equitable and fiscally responsible manner. 

Domain 8: Informatics and Healthcare Technologies: Evaluate and use information and communication technologies and informatics tools integrating best practices, regulatory standards, and ethical, legal, social implications in direct and indirect care roles. 

Domain 9: Professionalism: Embody the core values and professional identity of nursing by advocating for social justice and integrating ethical, legal, regulatory, and professional standards. 

Domain 10: Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development: Engages in personal and professional development to promote self-advocacy, resilience, and well-being to expand one’s own nursing leadership capacity and contribute to the advancement of the nursing profession.