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.