Transformative Leadership: Population Health DNP

Rush's approach: Transformative Leadership: Population Health DNP

This program is specifically designed to help APRNs develop skills in leading population-focused interventions. It supports you in achieving your career goals by pairing you with experienced faculty mentors who guide you throughout your coursework, clinical experiences and DNP projects.

Faculty are active practitioners at Rush University Medical Center – a top-tier academic medical center — and a variety of community-based settings. They have extensive experience in population health practice and education at regional and national levels. This will enrich your learning and help you develop your professional network.

Because you'll apply new skills directly in your workplace, you receive real‑time feedback and leadership development within your own professional environment. This combination of faculty mentorship, practical application and a population‑health leadership focus helps you advance into roles that align with your long‑term career aspirations.

Transformative Leadership: Population Health DNP program length and location

Our program is offered online on a part-time basis and can be completed in two to two and a half years.

All students are required to be on campus for the following activities:

• DNP project proposal presentation: Two days, just before beginning DNP project implementation during the third term of clinical work
• DNP project final presentation: Generally two days during the last term before graduation

Transformative Leadership: Population Health DNP program tuition

We know your education is a big investment. We want to make sure you have all the information you need to make the best financial decisions for you and your family.

Tuition for the Transformative Leadership: Population Health DNP program is $1,493 per credit hour.

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Transformative Leadership: Population Health DNP career opportunities

Our graduates are prepared to be leaders in a wide variety of roles that affect health outcomes of specific patient populations. They advance into influential leadership roles across care settings. Many step into system‑level positions directing population health initiatives, quality improvement or strategic planning. Others continue practicing as APRNs while taking on expanded leadership responsibilities, designing, leading and evaluating population‑health programs that directly improve outcomes for the patients and communities they serve every day.

The following are some examples of careers in the field:

• Managing population health programs in primary care practices
• Leading quality improvement efforts at federally qualified health centers and visiting nurses associations
• Innovating in large health care systems to promote population health

Further, our students are nationally recognized for their expertise through election to leadership positions in a variet of professional nursing organizations including:

• The Association of Community Health Nurse Educators
• The Association of Public Health Nurses
• The National Association of School Nurses
• The National Developmental Disability Nurses Association
• The Illinois Pioneer Coalition