DNP Program Outcomes

1. Synthesize, translate, and integrate nursing’s unique ways of knowing and caring with interdisciplinary perspectives to guide nursing practice decisions and clinical judgement.

2. Model personal and professional commitment to person centered care as the core purpose of nursing as a discipline through the holistic application of the nursing process for mutual, empowering, and healing environments.

3. Advocate for and lead policy initiatives and collaborative activities among partners for responsive, equitable health outcomes.

4. Advance the scholarship of nursing practice through ethically sound translation and dissemination of nursing knowledge.

5. Develop quality and safety improvement initiatives contributing to a culture of safety through system effectiveness and individual performance.

6. Promote generative team dynamics using principles of effective communication and nursing’s core professional values.

7. Formulate innovative system improvement strategies that address big picture complexities such as health equity and workforce preparedness for sustainable internal and external processes and structures.

8. Innovate for the balanced use of informatics and healthcare technology to support clinical decision making.

9. Lead with and mentor professional values, moral courage and resilience, and comportment reflective of nursing’s tradition of accountability to individuals, society, and the profession of nursing.

10. Model lifelong learning, professional service, and leadership to sustain the vitality of the nurse and the profession of nursing.