The DNP program is designed to prepare experts in advanced nursing practice. The program expands on the knowledge, skills, and abilities from prior nursing programs by integrating new and enhanced skills in the areas of organizational/systems leadership, quality improvement processes, the translation of research into practice, population health, and advanced clinical practice. This practice focused doctorate prepares graduates to assume clinical leadership roles aimed at health system transformation and improved patient outcomes.
DNP Nursing Program Goals
- Prepare DNPs to excel in advanced clinical leadership roles.
- Prepare clinical scholars able to transform the health care system.
DNP Program Outcomes
- Apply adaptive leadership principles to influence health system policy designed to improve individual, population, and/or system outcomes.
- Demonstrates clinical scholarship through the application of translational research.
- Advances nursing practice through the use of information to influence outcomes of care for individuals, family, populations, and health care systems.
- Participates in advocacy efforts to address health disparities, social justice, and equity to improve healthcare outcomes.
- Collaborate intra and interprofessionally to address complex practice, system, and policy issues.
- Demonstrate advanced levels of clinical judgment, systems thinking, and accountability in designing, delivering, and evaluating evidence-based care to improve patient outcomes.
- Evaluate personal scholarship, service, and excellence in practice for professional growth and advancement of the profession.