Job growth for nurse practitioners in the U.S. is projected to increase by 45 percent from 2019-2029.
Learn how to provide quality direct patient care to adults from adolescence through senescence in a variety of clinical settings.
As the highest clinical degree in nursing, the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program provides additional knowledge and skills in many aspects related to patient care, such as informatics, technology, and health care policy.
With the knowledge explosion in healthcare, advanced education in nursing is essential to meet the health care needs of the consumer. The DNP credential affords advanced practice nurses the opportunity to gain knowledge regarding necessary elements needed to deliver innovative, evidence based practice. The DNP program can be completed in a post-Bachelor’s or post-Master’s plan of study.
Program Benefits
- Flexible fully online course schedule
- Students receive individualized academic advisement to create a program plan that works for them.
- Faculty are highly credentialed in leadership, education, informatics, technology, health policy and research.
- Practice immersion as part of the development of the Scholarly Project.
- Program director assists students in securing appropriate immersion sites to ensure timely program completion
Daemen’s Center for Interprofessional Learning and Simulation (CILS) provides students experiential learning opportunities to promote best practice and collaboration. This leads to improved health and well-being outcomes for individuals, organizations, and communities!
Many of our students receive preliminary job offers prior to graduation.
Career Outlook
Graduates are employed in various settings, including:
- Acute Care Hospitals
- Critical Care Units
- Emergency Departments
- Urgent Care Centers
Program Specifics
- Possession of a baccalaureate degree in nursing from an ACEN or CCNE accredited program.
- Cumulative grade point average of 3.25 or above (on a 4.0 scale) from all colleges/universities attended.
- Completion of an undergraduate or graduate statistics course with a grade of C or better.
- New York State License and current professional nurse registration.
- One year acute care medical-surgical clinical experience (preferably inpatient or hospital-based).
- Three letters of recommendation, one being from a professional colleague may be submitted to strengthen the application.
- Submission of curriculum vitae and a written personal goals statement.
- Interview with the nursing faculty.
- Master’s degree in advanced nursing practice from an ACEN or CCNE accredited nurse practitioner program. The nursing program must include completion, with a minimum grade of B, of the following graduate level nursing courses or their equivalent: Advanced Health Assessment, Advanced Pathophysiology, and Advanced Pharmacology.
- New York State License and current professional nurse registration.
- New York State licensure as a nurse practitioner or eligibility to practice according to specialty standards.
- Completion of an undergraduate or graduate statistics course with a grade of C or better.
- Three letters of recommendation, one being from a professional colleague may be submitted to strengthen the application.
- Submission of curriculum vitae and a written personal goals statement.
- Interview with the nursing faculty.
- Integrate nursing science with knowledge from ethics, the biophysical, psychosocial, analytical, and organizational sciences as the basis to attend to health and illness experiences of individuals, groups, and communities.
- Demonstrates systems thinking to work collaboratively in the development, implementation, and evaluation of quality health care models.
- Use analytic methods to critically appraise literature and evidence from the health sciences in the development of practice guidelines and deliverance of direct patient care to individuals, groups, and communities.
- Design, select, use, evaluate, and analyze quality metrics in a variety of health care settings.
- Demonstrate leadership in the evaluation and resolution of ethical and legal issues within healthcare systems relating to the use of information, information technology, communication networks, and patient care technology.
- Demonstrate leadership in the development and implementation of institutional, local, state, federal, and/or international health policy through critical appraisal of health policy proposals, health policies, and related issues.
- Formulate and deliver population focused health care on the basis of synthesis of epidemiological, biostatistical, environmental, psychosocial dimensions, and cultural diversity and evaluation of health care delivery models.
- Contribute to professional nursing through leadership, education, and advocacy within the policy and healthcare communities.