DNP Clinical Program

You Will Be Prepared.

Completing the DNP Clinical Program prepares you to:

• Demonstrate role competency in clinical practice, scholarship and leadership.
• Establish interprofessional collaboration to apply analytic methods to create, adopt and evaluate effective innovations that improve the health of diverse, rural and underserved individuals and populations.
• Design and implement evidence-based strategies to improve health outcomes.
• Provide leadership that engages individuals, systems and communities to develop, implement and evaluate interventions to reduce health disparities.
• Facilitate optimal health outcomes through individualized patient-centered and culturally sensitive prevention, risk identification and management.
• Design and apply clinical, system-based, community, political and policy approaches to reduce health inequities.
• Provide leadership in formulation, application and analysis of institutional and public policies that impact health.
• Integrate and evaluate clinical information systems and patient care technologies to further evidence-based professional practice.
• Apply interprofessional leadership and advocacy skills in the development, implementation and evaluation of clinical practice models, health policy and standards of care.
• Utilize effective management and organizational skills to assume a leadership role in health care delivery, policy and systems.
• Apply professional values and ethical decision making in practice.
• Continuously improve the quality of one's own clinical practice based on knowledge of evolving evidence, professional reflection and personal accountability.