CURRICULUM
The best education includes in-person interaction between professors and students, and among students with each other. However, online courses promote educational access and build technology skills. The ideal program prepares students to use both methods, since they themselves will likely be called upon to teach in both venues in their future positions. TYPICAL COMPLETION PLAN Year 1 Typical Administrative DNP Completion Plan Year 1 Fall Spring Summer Year 2 Fall Spring
Therefore, the DNP program combines educational delivery methods, allowing students to keep their full time jobs and live in their own communities. Students come to campus for a three-day intensive every fall, spring, and summer during which all courses for that semester meet. The remainder of each course is completed online.
The dates for the upcoming on-campus intensives are as follows:
May 31-June 2, 2012
Aug. 9-11, 2012
Jan. 3-5, 2013
May 30-June 1, 2013
Persons who cannot meet this requirement need not apply.
Students typically take one or two courses each semester, with the summer semester as a notable exception. Courses are scheduled as followed (subject to change):
Typical Clinical DNP Completion Plan
Fall
• NURS 7103 (3 credit hours) Philosophy of Science
• NURS 7113 (3) Advanced Health Care Policy
Spring
• NURS 7123 (3) Advanced Theory Development
• NURS 7253 (3) Translation Research and Evidence-Based Practice
Summer
• NURS 8413 (3) Population Health
• NURS 7212 (2) Transcultural Health Care
• NURS 7231-3 (1-3) Grant Writing
Year 2
Fall
• NURS 8423 (3) Clinical Practice Management and Information Systems
• NURS 8443 (3) Advanced Clinical Practicum I
Spring
• NURS 8453 (3) Advanced Clinical Practicum II
• NURS 9103 (3) DNP Capstone Project
· NURS 7103 Philosophy of Science
· NURS 7113 Advanced Health Care Policy
· NURS 7123 Advanced Theory and Development
· NURS 7253 Translational Research and Evidence- Based Practice
· NURS 7243 Organizational and Leadership Theory
· NURS 7453 Health Care Information Management
· NURS 8443 Advanced Clinical Practicum I
· NURS 8453 Advanced Clinical Practicum II
· NURS 9103 DNP Capstone Project
