Learning Outcomes
Purpose, Program Outcomes, and Goals
Purpose
The purpose of the Doctorate of Nursing Practice program is to prepare the graduate as an expert clinician for direct- or indirect-care roles in advanced practice and in clinical leadership.
Program Outcomes
At the completion of the program, the student will enact the following outcomes:
- Implement and evaluate clinical practice based on scientific knowledge.
- Assume advanced practice nursing roles as an expert clinician.
- Demonstrate advanced leadership skills necessary to meet the challenges of increasingly complex healthcare organizations.
- Demonstrate analytical methodologies for the evaluation of clinical practice and the application of scientific evidence to improve professional practice.
- Apply clinical scholarship methodologies for organizational quality improvement, evidence-based practice, and healthcare outcomes.
- Use advanced skills to design, develop, and implement the use of contemporary technological information systems.
- Demonstrate expertise in the analysis, formulation, and implementation of healthcare policy.
- Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams necessary to meet healthcare needs of individuals and populations.
- Apply ethical theories, legal and practice standards, and advocacy to decision-making in healthcare issues.
- Apply population-based methodologies for health promotion and disease-prevention in advanced practice.
Goals
The goals of the program are to:
- Provide a high-quality educational program that prepares candidates for successful careers as clinical experts and leaders.
- Implement a program of study that promotes expert clinical practice, continuous practice improvement, effective leadership practices, and clinical scholarship.
- Participate in the evolution, development, and improvement of clinical practice for professional nursing.
- Create and implement a rigorous clinically focused doctoral program which demonstrates the continuous improvement of clinical practice and scholarship.
- Impact and improve clinical practice, clinical outcomes, health policy, and care delivery methodologies.