The curriculum includes cultural, ethnic, and socially diverse concepts and also includes knowledge from regional, national or global perspectives.
Graduates of the DNP program will be able to demonstrate the following competencies, which are aligned with the National Organization for Nurse Practitioner Faculties and the ACEN Standards for Clinical Doctorate, including:
- Scientific Foundation competencies
- Leadership competencies
- Quality competencies
- Practice Inquiry competencies
- Policy competencies
- Health Delivery System competencies
- Ethics competencies
- Independent Practice competencies
Graduates of the BSN-DNP program will demonstrate leadership skills and knowledge in advanced nursing care and clinical outcomes to ensure patient safety. Specifically, End of Program Student Learning Outcomes to be demonstrated by graduates of this program are as follows:
- Utilize epidemiologic, scientific findings from nursing and other clinical disciplines, as well as organizational, political, and economic sciences, to develop practice initiatives that will improve the quality of care delivery.
- Assume organizational and system leadership in the analysis, delivery, and management of nursing care.
- Provide organizational and systems leadership to develop care delivery models that are fiscally responsible and demonstrate sensitivity to diverse organizational cultures.
- Engage in clinical scholarship to evaluate the effectiveness of evidence-based efforts in the planning and practice of health care program delivery to individuals and communities.
- Utilize theories, concepts, and analytic methodologies to design, implement, and evaluate practice by applying evidence to transform nursing system.
- Collaborate with healthcare professionals, consumers, and other stakeholders to influence health policy and health promotion/disease prevention endeavors at the local, state, federal, and/or international levels that improve patient and population health outcomes.
- Implement the highest level of advanced nursing care to produce high quality, cost-effective outcomes for diverse patient populations.
- Contribute to the knowledge of best-practices nursing interventions and the dissemination of outcomes through professional writing and presentations.
- Develop practice standards based on the integration of ethics and evidence-based nursing care.