DNP Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (DNP-AGPCNP Track)

Program Learning Outcomes

“Expected student learning outcomes specify the knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes students are expected to attain in courses or in a program.” Page 69. Resource Manual for the Principles of Accreditation: Foundations for Quality Enhancement, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), 2018.

1. Synthesize, translate, and evaluate theoretical and empirical knowledge from the natural and social sciences, Christian faith, and nursing as a source of clinical reasoning and decision-making to provide holistic care in advanced nursing practice specialties.
2. Design and coordinate person-centered nursing practice framed in Christian values that is holistic, individualized, equitable, respectful, compassionate, coordinated, evidence-based, and culturally sensitive.
3. Design strategies to improve population healthcare, addressing disparities and social determinants of health through wellness promotion, and disease prevention and management, collaborating with community partners, healthcare systems, local government entities, and others for the improvement of equitable population health outcomes.
4. Synthesize, translate, and disseminate nursing knowledge through the application of evidence-based practice to transform health care and improve patient outcomes.
5. Lead initiatives to advance safety as core values of advanced nursing practice specialties to enhance quality and minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
6. Lead interprofessional teams to enhance communication and collaboration with care team members, patients, families, communities, and others to optimize care, enrich the healthcare experience, and improve outcomes.
7. Design and lead nursing practice within complex systems to proactively coordinate and deliver cost-effective, safe, high-quality, and equitable care to diverse populations.
8. Lead healthcare innovation through the design and evaluation of healthcare technologies to gather and interpret data, inform diagnostic reasoning, develop treatment plans and provide safe, high quality and efficient healthcare in accordance with best practice and professional and regulatory standards.
9. Model professional generosity in the mentoring of others to promote Christian values, moral courage, accountability, integrity, a collaborative disposition, and ethical comportment reflective of nursing’s characteristics and values.
10. Exemplify leadership in advanced nursing practice specialty roles that equip others and foster personal health, resilience, and well-being, contribute to lifelong learning, and support this development of nursing expertise and the assertion of leadership.

Degree Requirements

75 Credit Hours

• NUR 5003 - Introduction to the Doctor of Nursing Practice 3 Credit Hours
• NUR 5013 - Scientific and Philosophical Foundations of Nursing Practice 3 Credit Hours
• NUR 5023 - Advanced Nursing Research 3 Credit Hours
• NUR 5103 - Healthcare Policy and Advocacy 3 Credit Hours
• NUR 5113 - Leadership in Organizations and Systems 3 Credit Hours
• NUR 5223 - Faith and Science 3 Credit Hours
• NUR 6003 - Advanced Pathophysiology 3 Credit Hours
• NUR 6013 - Healthcare Technology and Quality Improvement 3 Credit Hours
• NUR 6053 - Advanced Nursing Practicum I 3 Credit Hours
• NUR 6103 - Advanced Pharmacology 3 Credit Hours
• NUR 6104 - Advanced Health Assessment & Diagnostic Reasoning 4 Credit Hours
• NUR 6153 - Advanced Nursing Practicum II 3 Credit Hours
• NUR 7003 - Translational Evidence Based Practice 3 Credit Hours
• NUR 7033 - Primary Care I: Acute and Chronic Health Problems 3 Credit Hours
• NUR 7053 - Primary Care I: Acute and Chronic Health Problems: Clinical 3 Credit Hours
• NUR 7103 - Healthcare Economics and Finance 3 Credit Hours
• NUR 7233 - Geriatric Health Issues 3 Credit Hours
• NUR 7253 - Geriatric Health Issues: Clinical 3 Credit Hours
• NUR 8033 - Primary Care III: Complex Family Health 3 Credit Hours
• NUR 8053 - Primary Care III: Complex Family Health: Clinical 3 Credit Hours
• NUR 8103 - Legal and Ethical Aspects in Healthcare 3 Credit Hours
• NUR 8153 - APRN Clinical Immersion 3 Credit Hours
• NUR 8501 - DNP Scholarly Project I 1 Credit Hours
• NUR 8512 - DNP Scholarly Project II 2 Credit Hours
• NUR 8522 - DNP Scholarly Project III 2 Credit Hours

• * Students must take 5 credit hours for the DNP Scholarly Project.  This must be completed over at least 2 consecutive semesters, however 3 consecutive semesters is recommended.  All students must complete at least 1 credit for the DNP Scholarly Project in semester 9.  Students may select the number of credits to take, per semester, starting in semester 7, with approval of their DNP Faculty Mentor and Academic Advisor.

   

• HSC 5053 - Biostatistics and Research Methodology 3 Credit Hours

Degree Plan

DNP Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (DNP-AGPCNP Track) Sample Degree Plan