The Doctor of Nursing Practice program at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing is accredited by the:
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The DNP Executive Track/Master of Business Administration is a dual degree post-master’s program that is designed for students to gain the knowledge, skills, and abilities to lead cross-professional teams in the improvement and provision of informed quality health care while gaining fundamental business skills.
The 67-credit dual degree DNP Executive/MBA Track is offered in a convenient executive-style format, integrating on-site immersions with online and virtual learning experiences. The dual program is offered by the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. The program can be completed in nine semesters of study. For a dual degree, all coursework must be completed before either degree is awarded.
The DNP Executive/MBA 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
- health policy analyst
Clinical hours obtained as part of a master’s degree can be applied to the DNP. The student obtains 448 practice hours in association with the conduct of the DNP Project in addition to 552 practice hours obtained from the previous advanced nursing practice program, to meet a minimum of 1000. Students are expected to complete DNP Executive/MBA degree requirements within seven years of enrollment.
The development of the nursing curriculum is based on AACN DNP Essentials, AONE Competencies, ANA Scope, and Standards of Practice for Nurse Administrators.
Plan of Study Overview
- Students will have to take only 10 foundational/core MBA courses instead of 15
- The remaining 5 courses have been converted to electives to make it more flexible for specialization
- General: There are a total of 11 general electives
- Specialization: The students do not have to choose a specialization, but if they want:
- They can choose up to 3 specializations
- Each specialization comprised of 5 courses (total of 10 credits)
- Carey Business School has a total of 8 specializations
Specializations
- Business Analytics and Risk Management
- Digital Marketing
- Entrepreneurial Marketing
- Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Technology
- Financial Management
- Health Care Management, Innovation, and Technology
- Investments
- Public and private sector leadership
Program Requirements
Program of Study
TYPICAL PROGRAM OF STUDY SEQUENCE
| First Year | ||
|---|---|---|
| First Semester | Credits | |
| Carey Business School Summer Year 1 | ||
| BU.510.601 | Statistical Analysis | 2 |
| Credits | 2 | |
| Second Semester | ||
| Carey Business School Fall Term 1 Year 1 | ||
| BU.210.620 | Accounting and Financial Reporting | 2 |
| BU.120.601 | Business Communication | 2 |
| Carey Business School Fall Term 2 Year 1 | ||
| BU.231.620 | Corporate Finance | 2 |
| BU.150.620 | Strategic Management | 2 |
| Credits | 8 | |
| Third Semester | ||
| School of Nursing Spring 1 Year 1 | ||
| NR.210.802 | Advanced Nursing Health Policy | 2 |
| Carey Business School Spring Term 1 Year 1 | ||
| BU.220.620 | Business Microeconomics | 2 |
| BU.142.601 | Leadership and Organizational Behavior | 2 |
| Carey Business School Spring Term 2 Year 1 | ||
| BU.520.601 | Business Analytics | 2 |
| General Business Elective 1 | 2 | |
| Credits | 10 | |
| Second Year | ||
| First Semester | ||
| Carey Business School/School of Nursing Summer Year 2 | ||
| NR.210.886 | Problem Discovery | 3 |
| General Business Elective 2 | 2 | |
| Credits | 5 | |
| Second Semester | ||
| School of Nursing Fall Year 2 | ||
| NR.210.803 | Nursing Inquiry for Evidence-Based Practice | 3 |
| Carey Business School Fall Term 1 Year 2 | ||
| BU.410.620 | Marketing Management | 2 |
| General Business Elective 3 | 2 | |
| Carey Business School Fall Term 2 Year 2 | ||
| General Business Elective 4 | 2 | |
| General Business Elective 5 | 2 | |
| Credits | 11 | |
| Third Semester | ||
| School of Nursing Spring Year 2 | ||
| NR.210.805 | Translating Evidence into Practice | 3 |
| NR.210.887 | Project Advancement | 3 |
| Carey Business School Spring Term 1 Year 2 | ||
| General Business Elective 6 | 2 | |
| Carey Business School Spring Term 2 Year 2 | ||
| BU.680.620 | Operations Management | 2 |
| Credits | 10 | |
| Third Year | ||
| First Semester | ||
| Carey Business School/School of Nursing Summer Year 3 | ||
| NR.210.817 | Analysis and Evaluation of Individual and Population Health Data | 3 |
| General Business Elective 7 | 2 | |
| General Business Elective 8 | 2 | |
| Credits | 7 | |
| Second Semester | ||
| School of Nursing Fall Year 3 | ||
| NR.210.888 | Project Application | 3 |
| Carey Business School Fall Term 1 Year 3 | ||
| General Business Elective 9 | 2 | |
| Carey Business School Fall Term 2 Year 3 | ||
| General Business Elective 10 | 2 | |
| Credits | 7 | |
| Third Semester | ||
| School of Nursing Spring Year 3 | ||
| NR.210.889 | Project Evaluation and Dissemination | 3 |
| NR.210.818 | Clinical Data Management and Analyses | 2 |
| Carey Business School Spring Term 1 Year 3 | ||
| General Business Elective 11 | 2 | |
| Credits | 7 | |
| Total Credits | 67 | |
Program Total: 67 Credits [cr]/1000 Clinical Hours [CL]
(Prior MSN - 552 clinical hours plus 448 DNP practicum hours)
Please refer to the Carey Business School of this catalogue for details regarding MBA coursework.
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).