Doctor of Nursing Practice (4 Specializations)

Throughout this program, we strive to provide a nurturing mentoring environment. Our faculty go the extra mile to help students with their learning needs. Plus, our healthcare students have access to MySentinel® support and resources. Your personal student success advisor is here to work with you one-on-one to provide help and guidance for any challenges you face in pursuit of your studies. There is also 24/7 library access with healthcare focused databases, complimentary access to the writing center and Grammarly, tutoring, and more.

Depending on your specialization, topics could include how to:

• Appraise the needs of complex organizations
• Critique roles of leaders in planning, providing, and evaluating healthcare
• Strategically plan for organizational change through data and evidence-based practices
• Summarize meaningful data that informs leadership using information technology
• Design health policy on everything from environmental issues to social movements
• Explain the role of finance in the health of an organization
• Plan usage of economic and human resources
• Adapt to all settings in the ever-changing healthcare industry
• Improve healthcare delivery across for individuals and communities

To be at the forefront of nursing education, we not only strive to meet accreditors’ guidelines, but we also work to meet the needs of our nursing students. Practice Experiences are an important part of our DNP program. These experiences are built into the courses and do not add additional work. Instead, they offer more interactive learning assignments.

TYPES OF PRACTICE EXPERIENCES (PEs)

• PRACTICE LEARNING EXPERIENCES (PLE): Course assignments that allow you to use what you learned in the online classroom out in the real world
• PRECEPTED PRACTICE EXPERIENCES (PPE): Course assignments that take place in the workplace or other healthcare settings.
• CAPSTONE HOURS (CH): Practice experience hours in the DNP program that are earned during scholarly work on your project
• Students are required to secure availability and access/permission to an acceptable location/site to fulfill the practice experience and DNP project requirements of the program. Most of our students use their place of employment for their practice experience site. Your admissions advisor can provide guidance on finding a practice experience site.
• Practice experience hours requirements: Program applicants who provide evidence of clinical or practicum hours from an MSN or other nursing-specific degree will have the potential to transfer a percentage of those hours (maximum 400 hours) towards the required 1000 practicum hours to graduate from the DNP program. Note: If you have under 400 hours, we will assist you with a virtual workroom to make up those hours.

Questions about practice experiences? Contact your Admissions Advisor at [email protected] or by phone at 866.922.5690 for more details.