Path to Program Completition
- For students entering with a bachelor’s degree:
- Part-time study: 7 years
- Full-time study: 4 years
- For students entering with a master’s degree, the time to completion will vary depending on the number of transfer credits awarded. The Nursing Department will determine this around the time an offer of admission is made.
The DNP program is a FALL START ONLY.
| Fall 1 | Spring 1 | ||
| NUR 500 Theoretical Foundations of Nursing Practice | 3 | NUR 502 Foundations in Psychiatric Mental Health Care | 2 |
| NUR 503 Advanced Leadership and Health Policy | 3 | NUR 555 Clinical Pharmacology | 3 |
| NUR 531 Family Theory | 2 | NUR 585 Nursing Science: Research for Evidence Based Practice | 3 |
| NUR 570 Clinical Pathophysiology | 3 | Nursing Elective | 1 |
| Total | 11 | Total | 9 |
| Fall 2 | Spring 2 | ||
| NUR 568 Advanced Health Assessment (3 cr. theory; 1 cr. lab- 60hrs.) | 4 | NUR 516 Advanced Theory and Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Clinical I (2cr lecture; 2 cr. Direct pt. clinical - 160 hrs.) | 4 |
| NUR 590 Advanced Diagnostics for Psychiatric Mental Health | 2 | NUR 655 Biostatistics and Epidemiology | 3 |
| NUR 600 Psychopharmacology | 3 | NUR 760 Translational Research | 3 |
| Total | 9 | Total | 10 |
| Fall 3 | Spring 3 | ||
| NUR 517 Advanced Theory Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, Clinical II (2cr. lecture; 2 cr. Direct pt. clinical-160 hrs.) | 4 | NUR 601 Advanced Theory and Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Practice Clinical III (2cr. lecture; 2 cr. Direct pt. clinical- 160 hrs.) | 4 |
| NUR 700 DNP Residency I: EBP and Data Analysis (On-campus-40 hrs. lab) | 2 | NUR 810 Health Policy | 2 |
| NUR 780 Systems Leadership and Organ. Technologies (2 cr. lecture; 1 cr. clinical-80 hrs.) | 3 | NUR 800 Residency II: Entrepreneurship (On Campus) | 2 |
| NUR 830 DNP Clinical Project Proposal | 2 | ||
| Total | 9 | Total | 10 |
| Fall 4 | Spring 4 | ||
| NUR 602 Advanced Theory and Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Practice Clinical IV (2 cr. lecture; 2 cr. Direct pt. clinical-160 hrs.) | 4 | NUR 820 Population Health (2 cr. lecture 2 cr. clinical - 160hrs.) | 4 |
| NUR 596 plus NUR 597; OR NUR 595 | 2 | NUR 860 Clinical Project Evaluation and Dissemination | 2 |
| NUR 840 Clinical Project Implementation (included 80 hrs. of clinical) | 2 | NUR 850 Culminating Clinical Seminar | 2 |
| Nursing Elective | 1 | Elective | 1 |
| Total | 9 | Total | 9 |
| TOTAL CLINICAL HOURS: 1040 | |||
| TOTAL CREDIT HOURS: 76 | |||
| Fall 1 | Spring 1 | ||
| NUR 500 Theoretical Foundations of Nursing Practice | 3 | NUR 502 Foundations in Psychiatric Mental Health Care | 2 |
| NUR 503 Advanced Leadership and Health Policy | 3 | NUR 585 Nursing Science: Research for Evidence Based Practice | 3 |
| Total | 6 | Total | 5 |
| Fall 2 | Spring 2 | ||
| NUR 531 Family Theory | 2 | NUR 555 Clinical Pharmacology | 3 |
| NUR 570 Clinical Pathophysiology | 3 | NUR 655 Biostatistics and Epidemiology | 3 |
| Total | 5 | Total | 6 |
| Fall 3 | Spring 3 | ||
| NUR 568 Advanced Health Assessment (3 cr. theory; 1 cr. lab-60 hrs.) | 4 | NUR 760 Translational Research | 3 |
| NUR 595 Integrative Health | 2 | NUR 810 Health Policy | 2 |
| Total | 6 | Total | 5 |
| Fall 4 | Spring 4 | ||
| NUR 590 Advances in Diagnostics for Psychiatric Mental Health | 2 | NUR 516 Adv. Theory and Psyh. Mental Health Nursing Clinical I (2 cr. lecture; 2 cr. Direct pt. clinical - 160 hrs.) | 4 |
| NUR 600 Psychopharmacology | 3 | Nursing Elective | 1 |
| Total | 5 | Total | 5 |
| Fall 5 | Spring 5 | ||
| NUR 517 Advanced Theory and Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, Practice Clinical II (2 cr. lecture; 2 cr, Direct pt. clinical - 160 days) | 4 | NUR 601 Advanced Theory and Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Clinical III (2 cr. lecture; 2 cr. Direct pt. clinical - 160 hrs) | 4 |
| NUR 700 DNP Residency I: EBP and Data Analysis (On campus - 40 hrs. lab) | 2 | Nursing Elective | 1 |
| Total | 6 | Total | 5 |
| Fall 6 | Spring 6 | ||
| NUR 602 Advanced Theory and Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Practice Clinical IV (2cr. lecture; 2 cr. Direct pt. clinical - 160 hrs.) | 4 | NUR 800 DNP Residency II: Entrepreneurship | 2 |
| NUR 850 Culminating Clinical Seminar | 2 | NUR 820 Population Health | 4 |
| Total | 6 | Total | 6 |
| Fall 7 | Spring 7 | ||
| NUR 780 Systems Leadership and Organ. Technologies (2 cr. lecture; 1 cr. clinical - 80 hrs) | 3 | NUR 840 Clinical Project Implementation (Included 80 hrs. of clinical) | 2 |
| NUR 830 DNP Clinical Project Proposal | 2 | Nursing Elective | 1 |
| Total | 5 | Total | 3 |
| Fall 8 | |||
| NUR 860 Clinical Project Evaluation and Dissemination | |||
| TOTAL: 76 | |||
