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Advanced Practice Nursing - D.N.P. Program Requirements PDFDownload to print

The Doctor of Nursing Practice (D.N.P.) degree in Advanced Practice Nursing entry comprises 37 didactic credit hours, 540 clinical hours and a scholarly project. Students must have graduated from a CCNE-or NLNAC-accredited Advanced Practice M.S.N. degree program and must obtain a current Ohio R.N. license and current national APRN certification prior to enrollment.

DOCTOR OF NURSING PRACTICE PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS (37 credits)
Course Title Credits
BSCI 80145 Medical Genomics 3
EPI 73026 Design and Implementation of Health Surveys 3
IAKM 80401 Health Informatics Management 3
NURS 70600 Clinical Scholar I 3
  70602 Synthesis and Application of Evidence for Advanced Nursing Practice 3
  70605 Program Evaluation in Nursing 3
  70610 Clinical Scholar II 4
  70640 Advanced Leadership in Healthcare 3
  70692 Clinical Scholar Practicum 3
  70727 Advanced Health Care Statistics I 3
  76199 Doctor of Nursing Practice Scholarly Project 6
ADVANCED PRACTICE ROLE-SPECIFIC COURSEWORK (34 credits)
Advanced Practice Nursing students will have 34 credit hours of nursing and advanced practice role-specific coursework, which include 500 clinical hours, applied toward the degree. 34
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