Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Curriculum

Family Nurse Practitioner DNP
Admissions
Curriculum
Family Nurse Practitioner DNP
Admissions
Curriculum

Program Student Learning Outcomes

The Family Nursing Practice DNP program prepares you to be a highly developed clinician and leader in advanced nursing practice or systems of care.

You will be prepared to practice in a variety of complex clinical, organizational and educational systems with diverse populations. Our program gives you the tools to affect changes in health care outcomes through evidence-based decision-making and system redesign.

Graduates meet the following outcomes:

  • Integrate science-based theories and data-based concepts to develop, appraise and implement practice approaches that improve health care and health care systems
  • Apply organizational theories and systems thinking to improve the quality, cost-effectiveness and safety outcomes of practice decisions and initiatives
  • Apply effective strategies for managing the ethical dilemmas inherent in patient care, the health care organization and research
  • Apply knowledge of informatics to monitor and improve outcomes, programs and systems of care
  • Provide leadership in influencing policies on the financing, regulation and delivery of health care
  • Lead interprofessional teams to improve patient and population health outcomes
  • Function independently in an advanced nursing role to improve health outcomes in a specialty area of practice

Graduates Meet the Following Standards

The DNP degree requires a minimum of 62 term hours of post-baccalaureate or 30 term hours of post-master’s study.

A gap analysis will be performed, and an individualized program of study will be developed based on previous graduate education.

All students must complete the degree requirements within five years.

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