DNP-Leadership
Program Overview
The Doctor of Nursing Practice-Leadership program equips graduates for roles as practice-oriented nurse leaders and scientists skilled in translating evidence into clinical practice, analyzing patient outcomes and understanding health care systems to ensure quality and safety.
This part-time clinical doctoral program, which is delivered asynchronously online across seven semesters, builds on the experiences and education students already hold as professional nurses. Graduates are well positioned to lead quality and safety initiatives, hold executive roles in health care organizations, manage clinical programs and serve as faculty members.
Students who relocate to another state during the course of enrollment may be unable to continue due to state boards of nursing regulations regarding preceptors.
Admissions
Minimum requirements for admission:
- Graduate degree in nursing from a CCNE or NLNAC nationally accredited program and RN license
- Completion of elementary statistics with a minimum grade of "B" by the first class day
- Completion of advanced pharmacology, advanced physical assessment and advanced pathophysiology prior to admission with a minimum grade of "B"
Additional considerations:
- Recommended 3.0 cumulative GPA on all graduate coursework
- Timed verbal responses and written assessments (through our secondary assessment provider, Kira Talent)
- Community service
- Leadership and involvement in extracurricular and/or professional activities
- Military service
- History of withdrawals, repeats or failures
To apply, submit your:
- NursingCAS application, including:
- Official college transcripts from each institution (including Texas A&M University, if applicable)
- Admission essay(s)
- Professional resume
- Three academic and/or professional references
- Verification of practice hours (maximum of 500 applied to DNP)
- Online verbal and written assessments through our secondary assessment provider, Kira Talent (eligible applicants will be sent invitations to complete this portion following review of their NursingCAS application)
- International applicant credentials (if applicable)
Application Deadlines
| Application Opens | Oct. 1 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Deadline | June 1 | ||||
| Mandatory Orientation | TBD | ||||
| First Class Day | August | ||||
| Admission decisions are rolling until June 1 and delivered through NursingCAS. Email nursingadmissions@tamu.edu if you're unsure of your application status. | |||||
Curriculum and Student Learning Outcomes
| Fall | ||
| NURS 725 | Theoretical Foundations of Healthcare | 3 |
| NURS 728 | Organizational & Systems Leadership | 3 |
| NURS 739 | Residency in Advanced Nursing Practice | 1 |
| Total | 7 | |
| Spring | ||
| NURS 734 | Healthcare Policy & Economics | 3 |
| NURS 731 | Quality & Outcome Improvement in Healthcare | 3 |
| NURS 739 | Residency in Advanced Nursing Practice | 1 |
| Total | 7 | |
| Summer | ||
| NURS 733 | Clinical Prevention & Population Outcome Improvement | 3 |
| NURS 739 | Residency in Advanced Nursing Practice | 1 |
| Total | 4 | |
| Fall | ||
| NURS 729 | Analytic Methods for Research & Evidence-based Practice | 3 |
| NURS 726 | Principles of Translational Science | 3 |
| NURS 735 | DNP Scholarly Project/Practicum I | 2 |
| Total | 8 | |
| Spring | ||
| NURS 727 | Application of Translational Science | 3 |
| NURS 736 | DNP Scholarly Project/Practicum II | 2 |
| Total | 5 | |
| Summer | ||
| NURS 732 | Transformational Leadership | 3 |
| NURS 737 | DNP Scholarly Project/Practicum III | 2 |
| Total | 5 | |
| Fall | ||
| NURS 730 | Informatics | 3 |
| NURS 738 | DNP Practicum IV | 2 |
| Total | 5 | |
| Program Total | 41* | |
*38-credit-hour base degree program for APRN-certified with 500 documented practice hours; 39 to 41-credit-hour base for all other students
At the completion of the DNP degree program, graduates will be prepared to:
- Apply implementation science as a framework to design, implement, and lead best practices at the highest level of advanced nursing practice.
- Act as a practice scholar to analyze, evaluate, and advance quality, safety, effectiveness, and efficiency of patient care and systems of care.
- Design innovative, evidence-based advanced nursing approaches to reduce health disparities, promote health and high-quality outcomes for individuals, populations, and health systems.
- Engage with and lead high performing inter-professional teams to co-create solutions that promote health outcomes and health care delivery.
- Construct innovative solutions to complex health issues using information systems, data analysis, and technology.
- Lead development of nursing practice and health care policy based on principles of social justice, health equity, and cultural sensitivity.
Cost of Attendance
For cost of attendance, including estimated cost of tuition and fees, books and supplies, housing and more, visit Aggie One Stop.
Information Sessions
Interested students are invited to attend an information session to learn more about our programs of study. These sessions provide details on admission requirements, prerequisite coursework, student life, clinical experiences and other opportunities. Students are required to attend an information sessions prior to requesting an individual appointment.
- Reservations are required to attend a session.
- Guests of registered attendees are welcome.
- Sessions last approximately 60-90 minutes.