Degree Requirements
The Doctor of Nursing Practice degree requirements are outlined in the SPU Graduate Catalog.
Doctor of Nursing Practice Program Outcomes
- Critically seek and appraise new knowledge from nursing, ethics, and other sciences to provide the basis for advanced nursing practice.
- Actively engage in leadership and interdisciplinary collaborations aimed at improving healthcare delivery, care coordination, and policy.
- Effectively lead and collaborate with health care teams to develop, implement, and evaluate healthcare organizations, systems, practice models, quality, and policy to improve outcomes for individuals and populations.
- Effectively develop, implement, and evaluate evidence-based approaches to advance nursing and systems of health care delivery.
- Advance the effective use of information systems and advanced technical resources to support care and improve health outcomes.
- Provide, manage and evaluate care of individuals and populations using evidence-based concepts related to community, environmental, cultural and socioeconomic dimensions of health.
- Demonstrate advanced levels of critical thinking, clinical reasoning, clinical judgment, systems thinking, and accountability in designing, delivering, and evaluating evidence-based care.