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Nursing, DNP (Post-Master’s)
Advance your career with a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) in Clinical Leadership
With a specialization, you will be prepared to take the next step in your nursing career
Gain a strong knowledge of nursing scholarship, clinical practice, health promotion, disease treatment, and the skills necessary to work in a changing and evolving health care environment in USJ’s DNP program. With your DNP, gain the foundation to work in leadership roles in patient care, with policymakers in public health departments, in research facilities, pharmaceutical companies, at the management level in doctor’s offices, or private practice.
Become a leader with an advanced degree to provide optimal care within a primary care practice. You will gain greater expertise to become a leader who can work with clinical partners to improve the health care provided to patients as you analyze and use evidence-based data to improve outcomes. This program offers specialized courses and clinical practicums to expand your advocacy skills to affect system changes, and research population health and health care practices.
The curriculum meets the requirements of the AACN Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced Nursing Practice.
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Program Benefits
- Accredited By The Commission On Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE)
- 1:1 faculty advisor/student ratio for scholarly projects
- Most universities hire DNP-prepared nurses for full-time faculty positions, on both tenured and non-tenured tracks
- Hospitals and health care organizations recognize the DNP for executive and leadership positions
- You can work as a DNP-prepared nurse practitioner providing direct patient care, improving patient care outcomes, and performing quality improvement projects.
- Current students enjoy dedicated clinical sites, opportunities to get involved locally and globally (Guyana Immersion Experience), and a practice-focused curriculum.
DNP Program Outcomes
This degree will provide you with a broad perspective that includes holistic health care for your patients including understanding how social and economic factors influence health outcomes.
- Apply scientific knowledge, evaluation methods and quality improvement strategies to advance evidence based clinical practice and improve health care systems and outcomes. (Essential 1, 2, 3,8)
- Lead organizations and systems as a practice scholar through the application of quality improvement strategies, systems thinking, and information technology. (Essential 2,3, 4 8)
- Advance patient and population health outcomes through scholarship, advocacy, leadership, and communication/collaboration with multidisciplinary teams.(Essential 5, 6, 7, 8)
- Influence public policy to minimize health disparities and promote access to quality care. (Essential 5, 7, 8)
- DNPs are employed in a range of roles from hospital CEOs or directors, public health leaders, to teachers or professors.
Application Information
Submit an application, available at usj.edu/apply include:
- $50 non-refundable application fee
- Official sealed Master’s (M.S., Nursing) transcript from a regionally and nationally accredited institution with a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.2
- Two letters of recommendation
- Essay: Discuss a practice problem in your field that, in your experience has a broad impact on patient care and outcomes; state professional goals for the next 5-10 years and explain how this degree will help you reach your goals.
- Immunization records
- Nursing supplemental health form
- Certified background check
- Certification form documenting previous master’s-level supervised clinical hours signed by the previous school’s program director
- Copy of valid RN license and APRN license if applicable
- Resume or CV
- On-campus interview
Requirements
- Must be a Registered Nurse with a Master’s degree in Nursing
- Must complete 45 credits over a two to four year period in conjunction with your plan of study, created and approved by the program director.
If you strive to work hard in pursuit of educational excellence, make improvements in health care systems, and advance nursing practice through leadership, collaboration, and advocacy, then you are ready for the DNP program at the University of Saint Joseph. Discover your passion, as I did, at USJ.
– Valencia Chicoine, M’12, DNP’16
Questions?
Contact:
Yvonne Joy, DNP, APRN
Associate Professor of Nursing and Director of Graduate Programs
Phone: 860.231.5258
Email:[email protected]
