Doctor of Nursing Practice

Program Goals

  1. Prepare doctoral-level professional nurses to provide leadership and service in promoting quality, holistic nursing care.
  2. Provide a learning environment where a Christian worldview of service and leadership is integrated toward a culture of excellence for life-long learning.
  3. Promote evidence-based knowledge for integration across learning environments and the healthcare system.
  4. Provide an educational foundation for advanced nursing practice and post-doctoral study.
  5. Provide student-centered, evidence-based teaching and learning for advanced nursing practice, leadership, service and reconciliation.

Curricular Competencies

  1. Demonstrate clinical judgment in nursing science and practice to synthesize, translate, and integrate established and evolving disciplinary nursing knowledge and ways of knowing.
  2. Provide person-centered, evidenced-based care that considers social determinants of health and is holistic, just, respectful, compassionate, coordinated, and uses developmentally appropriate approaches focused on diverse individuals, families, and communities across complex contexts.

  3. Promote equitable, inclusive, culturally sensitive population health across diverse settings and levels of care through collaborative engagement to improve outcomes that consider social determinants of health.

  4. Generate, synthesize, translate, apply, and disseminate evidence-based nursing knowledge using verbal and written scholarly communication to improve health and transform health care.
  5. Enhance quality and minimize risk of harm to patients and providers by employing established, emerging, and ethical principles of safety and improvement science through system effectiveness and individual performance.
  6. Collaborate and intentionally communicate across professions and with care team members, patients, families, communities, policy makers, and other stakeholders to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and strengthen outcomes.
  7. Coordinate resources to support systems-based practice through high-quality, equitable, compassionate, ethical care and advocacy for safe practice policy within diverse complex health systems.
  8. Use information and communication technologies to proficiently provide care, gather data, evaluate programs of care and support quality improvement and drive decision making.
  9. Demonstrate sustainable professional nursing identity, accountability, perspective, collaborative disposition, ethical reasoning, and comportment that reflects nursing’s characteristics and values from a Christian worldview.
  10. Integrate personal health, resilience, well-being, and life-long learning in support of the acquisition of nursing expertise, clinical judgement, and assertion of leadership.