Post-Master’s to D.N.P. Completion, D.N.P.

Return to the School of Nursing .

The post-master’s D.N.P. program at TU is designed to provide advanced practice nurses (i.e., CRNAs, Nurse Practitioners, Clinical Nurse Specialists, or Certified Nurse Midwives) with the opportunity to advance their education and knowledge in translational research, while effecting change in their clinical practice. The program is supported by local faculty that are focused on students’ success and the community.

The post-master’s D.N.P. completion track builds on previous academic work and clinical experience. Students will complete core D.N.P. research, theory courses, and D.N.P. project building courses. Students will complete 500 clinical practice hours in the implementation and completion of the D.N.P. project. This requirement adheres to the consensus model of the Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced Nursing Practice published by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.

Program Learning Outcomes

• Evaluate outcomes of evidence based research and design appropriate interventions for specialized area of advanced nursing practice to improve the health of individuals, aggregates, and populations.
• Apply advanced concepts of leadership and advocacy to influence policy, health systems, and consumerism in order to effect population health service improvement.
• Integrate cultural sensitivity through an awareness of global health concerns to decrease health disparities.
• Initiate resolutions to ethical dilemmas arising from system of organizational conflict.
• Synthesize nursing research and integration of best practice for change in professional practice based on scientific underpinnings for practice.
• Develop and evaluate new practice approaches based on nursing theory and theories borrowed from other disciplines.
• Demonstrate expertise in an area of specialized advanced nursing practice.
• Design comprehensive care for patients in the student’s advanced practice role and population of certification utilizing innovative, evidenced based methods.

The course load each semester is 4 to 9 credit hours.  Students are considered part-time after completion of the first semester in which 9 credits are taken.