Rutgers College of Nursing offers both a Post-B.S.N. D.N.P. program, which
requires 63-70 credits for completion, and a Post-Master's D.N.P. program
requiring 36-39 credits for completion along with a prerequisite graduate-level course in Nursing Informatics.
Due to the increased
complexity of health care, strong doctoral-prepared nurses with a focus
on the practice setting are needed. A primary goal of the D.N.P. graduate
will be to translate evidence into practice in ways that improve the
quality and safety of patient care and enhance positive patient
outcomes.
Two program options are available in the D.N.P.:
- Clinical Practice Focus
- Leadership Practice Focus
Whether
practicing as a clinician, in a nursing leadership role, or in the
community, the Rutgers D.N.P. graduate will be prepared to affect practice,
design and implement programs that improve health and health care
delivery, apply data management and informatics skills to evaluate
outcomes, and influence policy.
At the conclusion of the D.N.P. program, the graduate will be able to:
- Integrate
biophysical, psychological, organizational, informatic, ethical, and
legal knowledge with nursing science as a foundation for expert clinical
nursing practice in a specific nursing clinical specialization.
- Demonstrate accountability in specialty practice according to accepted standards of patient care and safety.
- Translate research findings into evidence-based practice at the individual and health care system levels.
- Use information technology to evaluate the delivery of health care to individuals and internal and community systems.
- Effect
desired change by developing and implementing policies at different
levels of the health care system and with different constituencies.
- Provide
multidisciplinary leadership through analysis of critical indicators
and/or health care delivery systems in order to provide optimal patient
care and safety in a specific nursing clinical specialization.
- Demonstrate
advanced knowledge and skills in the planning and delivery of health
and illness management in a specific nursing clinical specialization.
The doctor of nursing practice (D.N.P.) programs position Rutgers to be at the
forefront of nursing education programs in the country. The American
Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) has recommended that by 2015,
the standard for Advanced Practice Nursing Education be the D.N.P. Consequently, effective fall 2012, Rutgers College of Nursing no longer
admits new nurse practitioner students into a master's program but has
incorporated nurse practitioner education into the Post-B.S.N. doctor of nursing practice curriculum.
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