Students engage in the exploration of leadership in nursing and health care organizations. Platforms for discussion include concepts of leadership, organizational theory, quality improvement methods, inter-professional collaboration, effective communication and change strategies. Students develop leadership knowledge and skills to initiate systems transformation.

This course prepares students to analyze and influence health policy environments. Students will analyze and collaborate in revising health care organization strategic plans. Students will explore the impact of Healthy People 2010 objectives on health policy and strategic planning. Students learn to define policy problems; identify and critique potential solutions and assess political and economic influences on health care policy. Students design interventions to influence policy making and implementation. Methods for evaluating policy and strategic plans will be explored.

This course focuses on the complex variables that influence resource utilization in nursing and health care. The conceptual basis and methods of financial analysis and decision making as they pertain to the healthcare delivery systems are analyzed. Health care economics, marketing principles, human resource management, and the influence of Healthy People 2010 objectives that impact current healthcare environments are explored.

This course focuses on conceptual foundations for understanding health care informatics including the analysis of a variety of applications of information systems within the health care system.

Elements addressed include: theoretical models of nursing informatics, healthcare computing, data management and information processing, data acquisition, nursing vocabularies and knowledge representation. Managing organizational change, information security, social and ethical issues in health care systems, and the effects of informatics on the practitioner and consumer are studied.

This course will focus on nursing, education, organizational, leadership and management theories. The advanced analysis of the relationship between theory and evidenced based practice are explored with emphasis on the application of nursing and other theories at the highest level of nursing practice. Students will synthesize and apply theoretical knowledge to their phenomenon of interest.

This course will identify and analyze factors that affect the health of the population. The history and methods of epidemiology will be explored. Students will use Healthy People 2010 objectives and biostatistics to analyze current public health issues. Students use analytical methods and evidence based guidelines to critically appraise existing literature and epidemiological data. Students will determine and implement the best evidence for population-based health care as it applies to nursing practice, nursing education and nursing management and leadership.

This course focuses on the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively interact with and serve culturally diverse populations. Topics related to age, race, ethnicity, gender, class, and disabilities will be emphasized. Concepts related to workforce diversity, health care belief systems, patient rights and management of health care appropriate to the patient population will also be explored. Culturally based assessment tools will be critiqued. Health People 2010 objectives will be used as a framework to explore health care needs of the culturally diverse population.

This course focuses on the application of best evidence to promote nursing practice at the highest level. Students explore current research and propose methods to utilize newly acquired knowledge in current practice situations ensuring quality outcomes. Students synthesize concepts from biophysical, psychosocial, sociopolitical, culture, economic, and nursing science to impact and to understand the consequences of advanced practice decisions. Healthy People 2010 objectives will be used as a framework for exploring the potential impact of advanced practice decisions.

This course will focus on the promotion, financing, and systems implementation of evidenced based projects, products or services to improve nursing practice and health care delivery. Utilizing newly acquired knowledge, students will appraise their current practice environments and as appropriate to the student's practice agenda, the students will either prepare a marketing or business play that will justify the need and viability of their evidenced based project, product or service or secure internal or external funding that will help sustain their project, product, or service. Role transitions will be integrated into the course content.

This course focuses on the initial development of capstone projects including problem statement, objective, project activities, project timeline, resources, and evaluation strategies. Method(s) to address Health People 2010 objectives will be integrated into the project activities. This course is part of a four semester sequence required of all DNP students.

This course focuses on project development including process and outcome evaluation, budget development, and measurement tools. The initial project proposal will be completed during this course. Students will present their projects as a poster presentation at research conferences. This course is part of a four semester sequence required of all DNP students

This course focuses on implementation of the DNP project.  Strategies to address challenges in the implementation of the capstone project will be explored. This course is part of a six semester sequence required of all DNP students

 

This course focuses on the collection and analysis of data to evaluate the outcomes of the capstone project.   This course is part of a six semester sequence required of all DNP students.

 

This course focuses on the development of the final capstone project report. Students will develop a comprehensive report describing their project, implementation, evaluation, and results.  This course is part of a six semester sequence required of all DNP students.

 

 

This course culminates the DNP capstone project. Students will present their current project status, evaluation data, dissemination plans, and future recommendations.  Dissemination of the project outcomes will be completed. This course is the final course of a six semester sequence required of all DNP students.