Program Student Learning Outcomes
The Transformative Leadership: Population Heath DNP program equips you to improve clinical health outcomes for patient aggregates, communities, and populations.
You are 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, critically 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
You must complete a minimum of 40 term hours for graduation.
Program Curriculum
All students must take a graduate-level evidence-based practice research course. If this course has not been taken prior to the start of the program, NSG - 523 will be added to your plan of study.
Graduate Nursing Core Courses
- NSG - 522 Applied Epidemiology Biostats Nursing (Credits: 3)
Subtotal: 3
DNP Core Courses
- NSG - 600 Leadership in Evolving Health Care Environments (Credits: 3)
- NSG - 602 Health Care Economics, Policy and Finance (Credits: 3)
- NSG - 608 Program Evaluation (Credits: 3)
- NSG - 610 DNP Project Planning and Implementation (Credits: 3)
- NSG - 615 DNP Project Proposal Seminar (Credits: 2)
Subtotal: 14
Population/Role Cognate Courses
- NSG - 565 Advanced Nursing Roles in Public Health Systems (Credits: 3)
- NSG - 566 Population Assessment and Heath Promotion Frameworks Credit(s): 3
- NSG - 567 Population Intervention Planning, Implementation and Evaluation (Credits: 3)
- NSG - 611 Financial and Business Concepts (Credits: 3)
- NSG - 614 The Leader and Policy, Politics, Power and Ethics (Credits: 3)
Subtotal: 15
DNP Practica and Project
- NSG - 606 DNP Specialty Practicum (Credits: 1-12)
- Credit Hours: 3, 252 Clock Hours
- NSG - 607 DNP Immersion Residency (Credits: 1-14)
- Credit Hours: 2, 168 Clock Hours
- NSG - 609A DNP Project Practicum A (Credits: 1)
- Credit Hours: 1, 84 Clock Hours
- NSG - 609B DNP Project Practicum B (Credits: 1)
- Credit Hours: 1, 84 Clock Hours
- NSG - 609C DNP Project Practicum C (Credits: 1)
- Credit Hours: 1, 84 Clock Hours
Subtotal: 8
Total: 40
View the current course catalog
Refer to the course catalog for our most up-to-date curriculum information.