DNP Learning Goals

Theoretical Underpinnings: Evaluate scientific knowledge underpinnings for translation, integration, application to practice, and create a theoretical framework based on research.
Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Collaborate with professionals in other disciplines to improve person-centered care and population health outcomes.
Population Health: Establish collaborative approaches to improve equitable health improvements in both traditional and non-traditional partnerships to include the healthcare delivery continuum for patient-centered care, public health prevention and disease management of diverse populations.
Nursing Scholarship: Generate, translate, and disseminate evidence-based practices to improve and transform healthcare.
Innovation, Quality, and Safety: Improvement science focused on enhancing quality and system effectiveness.
Leadership: Improve the quality of nursing practice, by using leadership strategies and systems-based thinking and practice, to lead organizations to change through personal and professional development.
Healthcare Technology and Informatics: Utilize data-driven decision-making to inform the delivery of safe, high-quality healthcare services supported by healthcare technology.
Healthcare Advocacy: Advocate for improved diverse, inclusive, and equitable healthcare and policies.
Personal, Professionalism, and Leadership: Life-long learning, collaborative disposition, support of nursing expertise, and assertion of leadership.