Degree Awarded: DNP
Advanced Nursing Practice
The DNP in advanced nursing practice prepares graduates to apply and integrate research into clinical practice using innovative approaches to improve health care outcomes of populations and individuals across multiple settings. This is a hybrid program, a blend of in-person and online learning. Students are required to travel to campus for orientation once and for immersions two or three times per semester. Courses are designed for clinical experts and emphasize systems thinking in complex health environments, evidenced-based practice, implementation science, and dissemination of outcomes to advance health care practices and policies. The program emphasizes innovation, leadership in professional relationships, and impacting organizational culture. Practicing faculty with systems-based experience teach much of the coursework and residency experiences, which enrich student learning. In addition to advanced nursing specialty-focused outcomes, the Doctor of Nursing Practice program engages students to meet doctoral-level competencies in systems-level thinking, complexity science, quality and safety, evidence-based practice, and the development of a doctoral project within a partner organization to improve outcomes at the patient, provider or health care system level. Students of the doctoral program are educated as leaders at the highest level of nursing practice to translate research into practice, lead in multidisciplinary teams, and engage in health care policy and advocacy to improve patient outcomes. Arizona State University Doctor of Nursing Practice programs are accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education.
