Doctor of Nursing Practice Program
In 2006, the University of Minnesota Board of Regents authorized the School of Nursing to offer a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree. This practice doctorate prepares nurses for leadership as advanced practice nurses, clinical experts, healthcare executives, policy experts, and informaticians. The School of Nursing offers two distinct paths to the DNP degree: the Post-Baccalaureate option and the Post-Master’s option.
The program outcomes for the DNP program are as follows:
- Provide quality, evidence-based and culturally sensitive advanced nursing care that improves the health and well-being of diverse individuals, families, communities, and populations.
- Translate science to practice by planning, implementing, and evaluating interventions that improve the health of individuals, families, communities, populations, and/or organizations.
- Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of nursing interventions by measuring outcomes of care that reflect population health, patient experience, and value.
- Lead the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of new models of Interprofessional, team-based health care delivery.
- Integrate advanced nursing knowledge and advocacy skills to strategically influence leadership in health policy and decision-making at organizational, local, regional, national, and global levels.