Doctor of Nursing Practice

By the end of the program, students will be able to:  

• Knowledge for Nursing Practice: Lead the integration, translation, and application of evidence from nursing science and other disciplines to advance and lead healthcare delivery.
• Person-Centered Care: Create, communicate, and evaluate person-centered care that is holistic, individualized, just, culturally aware, respectful, compassionate, coordinated, evidence-based, and developmentally appropriate.
• Population Health: Analyze current population health gaps and create and evaluate cost-effective, evidence-based interventions to meet the needs of the target population across the care continuum.
• Scholarship for the Nursing Discipline: Advance the scholarship of nursing through the integration of best evidence and ethical conduct of scholarly activities to improve health outcomes.
• Quality and Safety: Apply principles of improvement and safety science to ensure system effectiveness to enhance quality care and minimize harm, ensuring effective systems for safe, person-centered care in a secure and just environment.
• Interprofessional Partnerships: Effectively collaborate with multidisciplinary care team members, patients, families, communities, and stakeholders to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and strengthen outcomes.
• Systems-Based Practice: Lead and coordinate resources within complex healthcare systems to deliver safe, quality, and equitable care to diverse populations.
  Informatics and Healthcare Technologies: Use information and communication technology to manage and improve healthcare in accordance with best practices and professional and regulatory standards.
• Professionalism: Demonstrate a sustainable professional identity of accountability, perspective, ethical comportment, and collaborative disposition that reflects nursing’s characteristics and values.
• Personal, Professional, and Leadership development: Actively engage in activities and self-reflection that foster personal health, resilience, well-being, and life-long learning to support the acquisition of nursing expertise and leadership.