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DNP Executive Leadership Track—68 hours

The ability to serve as an executive leader within the healthcare setting requires a breadth of knowledge and skills that encompasses several disciplines. To prepare future nursing leaders for these high profile positions within healthcare organizations or academic institutions, this track offers the nurse the opportunity to serve along side leaders of health care or academic institutions in gaining the knowledge, skills, and wisdom needed to lead health care institutions in the future. The student will strengthen their understanding of the profession of nursing while gaining business principles to support the future leadership role. An application deadline of March 1 is noted for priority acceptance into this track that begins in the fall of each year.

Degree Requirements

Specialty Courses

NUR 525Introduction to Administrative Nursing Practice

3
NUR 528Nursing Administration and the Law

3
NUR 535Nursing Quality Management

3
NUR 572Nursing Administration Residency

2
NUR 593Nursing Administration Practicum I

1
NUR 615Resource Management

3
NUR 693ANursing Administration Practicum II

2
NUR 695BNursing Administration Practicum III

2

Required Core for All Tracks—49 hours

NUR 515Advanced Statistics for the Health Sciences

3
NUR 533Advanced Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice

3
NUR 559Role Development and Collaborative Strategies in Advanced Nursing Practice

2
NUR 705Organizational Leadership & Management

3
NUR 710Methods for Evidence-Based Practice

3
NUR 715Technological Transformations of Health Care

3
NUR 720Faith and Science

3
NUR 725Health Care Policy and Economics

3
NUR 728Transitions to DNP Practice

3
NUR 730Epidemiology

3
NUR 735Fellowship I

2
NUR 738Fellowship II

3
NUR 739Fellowship III

3
NUR 791DNP Project Implementation

2.0 - 3.0
NUR 745Leadership and Teaching Practice Strategies

3
NUR 793DNP Project Development

3
NUR 794DNP Project Completion

3
NUR 791 must be taken for 3 credit hours.