The Doctor of Nursing Practice program at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing is accredited by the:
Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE)
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The DNP Executive Track option is a post-master’s to DNP program that is designed for students to remain in practice while gaining the knowledge, skills, and abilities to lead cross-professional teams in the improvement and provision of informed quality health care. The 40-credit DNP Executive Track is offered online with required on-site course immersions. The program can be completed in six semesters of study. The DNP is designed for nurses involved in an advanced nursing practice role including but not limited to: clinical nurse specialist, nurse practitioner, nurse midwife, nurse anesthetist, public health practitioner, nurse executive, nurse informatician, and health policy analyst. Clinical hours obtained as part of the master’s degree can be applied to the DNP program. The student obtains 448 practice hours in association with the conduct of the DNP Project, and additional DNP practicum hours to obtain a minimum of 1000 practice hours required for the DNP degree. Students are expected to complete degree requirements within six years of enrollment.
Program Requirements
DNP Executive Track Curriculum
The 40-credit DNP Executive Track includes 19 credits of required DNP core, 12 credits for the required DNP Project, and 9 credits of elective/cognate courses related to the student’s focus specialty area. Students who require additional practice hours to fulfill the 1000 practice hours may take additional DNP Practicum course(s) for 1 (56 practice hours) to 2 (112 practice hours) credits to close that gap. Students who are concurrently completing the Nurse Educator Certificate Option (NECO )may utilize all of their NECO credits towards fulfillment of their (9) required electives. Students must complete the program within 6 years.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| NR.210.802 | Advanced Nursing Health Policy | 2 |
| NR.210.803 | Nursing Inquiry for Evidence-Based Practice | 3 |
| NR.210.804 | Organizational and Systems Leadership for Quality Care | 2 |
| NR.210.805 | Translating Evidence into Practice | 3 |
| NR.210.806 | Health Finance | 2 |
| NR.210.817 | Analysis and Evaluation of Individual and Population Health Data | 3 |
| NR.210.818 | Clinical Data Management and Analyses | 2 |
| NR.210.822 | Health Information Systems and Patient Care Technologies | 2 |
| NR.210.886 | Problem Discovery | 3 |
| NR.210.887 | Project Advancement | 3 |
| NR.210.888 | Project Application | 3 |
| NR.210.889 | Project Evaluation and Dissemination | 3 |
| Electives | 9 | |
| Total Credits | 40 | |
Program Totals 40cr/Minimum 448CH
Program of Study
DNP Executive Track
| First Semester | Credits | |
|---|---|---|
| NR.210.886 | Problem Discovery | 3 |
| NR.210.806 | Health Finance | 2 |
| Credits | 5 | |
| Second Semester | ||
| NR.210.803 | Nursing Inquiry for Evidence-Based Practice | 3 |
| NR.210.802 | Advanced Nursing Health Policy | 2 |
| NR.210.804 | Organizational and Systems Leadership for Quality Care | 2 |
| Credits | 7 | |
| Third Semester | ||
| NR.210.805 | Translating Evidence into Practice | 3 |
| NR.210.887 | Project Advancement | 3 |
| NR.XXX.XXX | Elective (student’s choice) 1 | 3 |
| Credits | 9 | |
| Fourth Semester | ||
| NR.210.817 | Analysis and Evaluation of Individual and Population Health Data | 3 |
| NR.210.822 | Health Information Systems and Patient Care Technologies | 2 |
| NR.XXX.XXX | Elective (student’s choice) 1 | 3 |
| Credits | 8 | |
| Fifth Semester | ||
| NR.210.888 | Project Application | 3 |
| NR.XXX.XXX | Elective (student’s choice) 1 | 3 |
| Credits | 6 | |
| Sixth Semester | ||
| NR.210.889 | Project Evaluation and Dissemination | 3 |
| NR.210.818 | Clinical Data Management and Analyses | 2 |
| Credits | 5 | |
| Total Credits | 40 | |
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DNP Executive Track students are not permitted to take Electives in the first 2 semesters. A total of 9 elective credits are required. Course credits can range from 1 to 3 and are dispersed across semesters 3 through 6.
Program Total: 40 Credits [cr]/1000 Clinical Hours [CL]
(Prior MSN - up to 552 clinical hours plus 448 DNP practicum hours).
Doctor of Nursing Practice Executive Track Scholarly Project Progression
DNP students are required to successfully complete a Project Plan Proposal and DNP Project.
The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing prepares nurses to advance health equity by providing evidence-based and patient-centered care to diverse individuals and populations globally. Our curricula are grounded in nursing’s unique obligation and capacity to advance racial, social and planetary justice. To this end, our students and faculty will interact with mutual respect and accountability that prioritizes learning, discovery, and the inclusion of diverse persons, families, and communities. In addition, we value a competency-based approach that ensures graduates are agents of transformational change that advance health equity through clinical expertise, leadership, policy, scholarship, and ethical professional practice.
The purpose of the DNP program is to prepare nurse leaders to practice at the full scope of advanced nursing practice for the specialty and to translate evidence into practice.
Essential: Knowledge for Nursing Practice
Program Outcome: A scholar who demonstrates competencies to perform at the full scope of advanced nursing practice for the specialty.
Essential: Person Centered Care
Program Outcome: A partner with others to deliver person-centered care that focuses on the individual and family within multiple contexts and addresses social determinants of health.
Essential: Population Health
Program Outcome: An advocate who critically analyzes, identifies strategies, and establishes partnerships to achieve equitable and inclusive population health policies, health promotion and disease management outcomes across diverse systems.
Essential: Scholarship for Nursing Discipline
Program Outcome: A scholar who integrates, generates, synthesizes, translates, applies, and disseminates nursing knowledge to improve health equity and transform health care at the local, national, and global level.
Essential: Quality and Safety
Program Outcome: A leader who builds upon and employs established and emerging principles of safety and improvement science to enhance health care quality and minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
Essential: Interprofessional Relationships
Program Outcome: A trailblazer who maintains and builds collaborations across professions and with care team members, patients, families, communities, and other partners to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and strengthen outcomes.
Essential: Systems based practice
Program Outcome: A Contributor who demonstrates leadership within complex health care systems to provide safe, quality, equitable care to diverse populations.
Essential: Informatics and Healthcare Technologies
Program Outcome: A proficient provider of communication and patient care technologies and informatics processes to gather data, drive decision making, to improve and provide the delivery of safe, equitable, high-quality, and efficient healthcare services.
Essential: Professionalism
Program Outcome: A leader who cultivates a professional identity that aligns with the core values of accountability, excellence, integrity, diversity and equity and respect.
Essential: Personal, professional, and leadership development
Program Outcome: A leader who participates in self-reflection and activities that foster professional nursing expertise, personal health, resilience, and well-being, to promote growth through lifelong learning.
The Doctor of Nursing Practice and Masters of Science in Nursing program outcomes are based on the Advanced and Entry-level competencies, respectively, as described in “The Essentials: Core competencies for professional nursing education”. (AACN, 2021).