The SPU Graduate Nursing Program

The Graduate Nursing Program prepares graduates to assume advanced practice and leadership roles in a variety of settings, in keeping with the University model of competence, character, and becoming people of wisdom. The aim is to foster the development of self-understanding, caring, collaboration, ethical thought and action, intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and judgment, as well as the integration of Christian faith with scientific knowledge and clinical expertise.

Degree Requirements

The Doctor of Nursing Practice degree requirements are outlined in the SPU Graduate Catalog.

Doctor of Nursing Practice Program Outcomes

1. Critically seek and appraise new knowledge from nursing, ethics, and other sciences to provide the basis for advanced nursing practice.
2. Actively engage in leadership and interdisciplinary collaborations aimed at improving healthcare delivery, care coordination, and policy.
3. 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.
4. Effectively develop, implement, and evaluate evidence-based approaches to advance nursing and systems of health care delivery.
5. Advance the effective use of information systems and advanced technical resources to support care and improve health outcomes.
6. Provide, manage and evaluate care of individuals and populations using evidence-based concepts related to community, environmental, cultural and socioeconomic dimensions of health.
7. Demonstrate advanced levels of critical thinking, clinical reasoning, clinical judgment, systems thinking, and accountability in designing, delivering, and evaluating evidence-based care.