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DNP: Degree Requirements

BSN to DNP Degree Requirements

	Core Practice Competency Courses: 32 SH
NUSC 525	Intermediate Statistics	3
NUSC 526	Nursing Inquiry I	2
NUSC 527	Nursing Inquiry II	2
NUSC 528	Health, Environment and Systems	2
NUSC 529	Issues of Advanced Practice in Nursing	1
EPID 400 or EPID 403	Principles of Epidemiology or Introduction to Epidemiology: Principles and Methods	3
BHIS 510	Health Care Information Systems I	4
NUSC 503	Evidenced-based Practice	3
NUSC 507	Promoting Health: Translating Science to Practice	3
NUSC 509	Advanced Leadership Concepts	3
NUAS 502	Strategic Planning and Outcomes Evaluation for Clinical Programs	3
NUAS 517	Financial Resource Management for Nursing Decision Makers	3
	Specialty-specific and Role Competency Courses: 38-48 SH
	Direct Care Roles: Nurse Practitioner (acute care, adult, geriatric, advanced nurse palliative care, pediatric, women's health, family, mental health, occupational health, school health); Nurse Midwife; Clinical Nurse Specialist (acute care, geriatric, advanced practiced palliative care, pediatric, perinatal, mental health). Sysems-Focused or Blended Roles: Advanced Community Health Nurse Specialist; Occupational Health Nurse Specialist; School Health Nurse Specialist; Administrative Nursing/Health Informatics Specialist	38-48
	DNP Synthesis Project and DNP Residency: 20 SH
NUSC 572	Synthesis Project Development	4
NUSC 574	Synthesis Project Implementation	4
NUSC 576	Synthesis Project Evaluation and Dissemination	4
NUSC 582 NUSC 586	DNP Residency I: Direct Care Role or DNP Residency II: System-Focused Role	4
NUSC 583 NUSC 587	DNP Residency II: Direct Care Role or DNP Residency II: System-Focused Role	4
	Total DNP Degree: 90-100 SH

MS to DNP Degree Requirements

	Core Practice Competency Courses: 25 SH
EPID 400 or EPID 403	Principles of Epidemiology or Introduction to Epidemiology: Principles and Methods	3
BHIS 510	Health care Information Systems I	4
NUSC 503	Evidenced-based Practice	3
NUSC 507	Promoting Health: Translating Science to Practice	3
NUSC 509	Advanced Leadership Concepts	3
NUAS 502	Strategic Planning and Outcomes Evaluation for Clinical Programs	3
NUAS 517	Financial Resource Management for Nursing Decision Makers	3
	Graduate level electives to support Direct Care of System-focus practice:	3
	DNP Synthesis Project and DNP Residency: 20 SH
NUSC 572	Synthesis Project Development	4
NUSC 574	Synthesis Project Implementation	4
NUSC 576	Synthesis Project Evaluation and Dissemination	4
NUSC 582 NUSC 586	DNP Residency I: Direct Care Role or DNP Residency II: System-Focused Role	4
NUSC 583 NUSC 587	DNP Residency II: Direct Care Role or DNP Residency II: System-Focused Role	4
	Credit for previous master's degree (up to 45 SH) TOTAL: 45 SH
	TOTAL DNP Degree: 90 SH

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Course Descriptions and Syllabi

EPID 400 Principles of Epidemiology	Introduction to descriptive and analytic epidemiology, determinants of health and disease in populations and application of the epidemiologic method to disease control; includes use of basic epidemiologic software
EPID 403 Introduction to Epidemiology: Principles and Methods	Introduction to descriptive and analytic epidemiology, and determinants of health and disease in populations. Measures of occurrence, association and statistical testing will be addressed along with study designs, bias, and confounding.
BHIS 510 Health Care Information Systems I	Examination through case studies, discussion, and problem-based learning of current information technologies and systems currently in place and on the horizon, in health care organizations and in health science libraries.
NUSC 503 Evidence-Based Practice	Application of evidence-based practice to healthcare delivery system and clinical issues. Emphasizes integration of retrieved evidence with client preferences to design and evaluate best practices.
NUSC 507 Promoting Health: Translating Science to Health Practice	This course examines theories and models of health promotion, disease prevention, and teaching/learning for their application to direct care and systems-focused nursing practice. Integration of these theories with evidence-based practice at all levels (individual, family, systems and populations) is stressed. Material will include application of the theories and models to the academic and clinical practice settings.
NUSC 509 Advanced Nursing Leadership Concepts	Students synthesize theoretical leadership concepts with personal and professional values in relation to advanced nursing practice. Emphasis is on working with multiple disciplines and leading multiple constituencies. Issues of power, creativity, innovation, ethics, communication, negotiation, conflict management, and resource use are addressed.
NUAS 502 Strategic Planning and Outcomes Evaluation for Clinical Programs	Analysis of trends and issues affecting health care systems are reviewed in the context of planning appropriate strategies for the development and growth of clinical programs and services. This includes designing specific program strategies, identifying methods to assure their implementation, and evaluation of outcomes.
NUAS 517 Financial Resource Management for Nursing Decision Makers	This course will provide the clinical decision maker state of the art tools to plan, implement, and evaluate the financial viability of health care programs and initiatives.
NUSC 572 Synthesis Project Development	Students design a doctoral nursing practice project related to an aggregate of individuals/selected population of interest
NUSC 574 Synthesis Project Implementation	Students implement a doctoral nursing practice project related to an aggregate of individuals/selected population of interest.
NUSC 576 Synthesis Project Evaluation and Dissemination	Students analyze and disseminate findings from the doctoral nursing practice project.
NUSC 582 DNP Residency I: Direct Care Role	Individualized residency experience that will expand clinical expertise and specialized knowledge in the selected direct care advanced nursing practice specialty role.
NUSC 583 DNP Residency II: Direct Care Role	Individualized residency experience that will facilitate development of systems-level clinical expertise in the selected direct care advanced nursing practice specialty role.
NUSC 586 DNP Residency I: Systems-Focused Role	Individualized residency experience that will expand expertise and specialized knowledge in the selected systems-focused advanced nursing practice specialty role.
NUSC 587 DNP Residency II: Systems-Focused Role	Individualized residency experience that will expand development of systems-level expertise in the selected systems-focused advanced nursing practice specialty role.