Minimum Requirements to Apply.
Master's degree as an Advanced Practice Nurse, Certified Nurse Midwife or Clinical Nurse Specialist
3.0 GPA
Current RN license

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.
Support for Your Education
The majority of our students received some form of financial aid – scholarship, grant, loan, work study or teaching assistant position.
We also offer more than $270,000 in UNM College of Nursing scholarships. Individual scholarship amounts range from $200-$4,000 annually.
Admissions, Tuition & Financial Aid
DNP Program Contact
Doctor of Nursing Practice Program Director, Clinician Educator, Associate Professor
A. Christine Delucas, DNP, MPH, RN, NEA-BC
College of Nursing
Building 228
Room 232
1 University of New Mexico
Research & Scholarship
UNM is the only Carnegie R1 research university in New Mexico. We offer research opportunities abound whether you are an undergraduate student or a graduate student.