Receive your doctorate and align with other health care professionals.
The DNP offers a practice doctorate for nurses with an emphasis on clinical or administrative leadership.
Flexible program.
Small cohorts allow for individual attention focused on community building.
We offer 2 programs to earn your DNP – Post-Bachelor’s DNP and Post-Master’s DNP. Explore both programs below.
This program is designed for students who have a BSN, BS or BA and an RN License and want to return for their DNP. There are 6 concentrations offered in this program – Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, Family Nurse Practitioner, Nurse-Midwifery, Nursing Administrative Leadership, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner – Primary Care and Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner – choose the right one for you.
This program is designed for students who have a master's degree and an RN License and want to return for their DNP to advance their knowledge.
Applications open on August 15th.
And gain the knowledge to take you to the next step in your career. Analyze, translate and apply evidence to improve health outcomes.
The DNP degree prepares health care leaders with an emphasis on advanced clinical practice, leadership, health care policy, information systems and health care delivery systems. Expertise brought by the DNP-prepared nurse is grounded in the scholarship of application. There are ten foundational competencies, known as The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education, are identified by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN, 2021) as:
Knowledge for Nursing Practice
Person-Centered Care
Population Health
Scholarship for the Nursing Discipline
Quality and Safety
Interprofessional Partnerships
System-Based Practice
Informatics and Healthcare Technologies
Professionalism
Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development
Returning to school for a graduate degree is a big decision. Christine Cogil, DNP, MPS, RN, FNP-BC, Clinical Educator and Associate Professor from the UNM College of Nursing, discusses what to consider when preparing for a DNP program in StuNurse on page 20.
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Admissions & Recruitment Office
College of Nursing
Building 214
Suite 1501
1 University of New Mexico
DNP Program Director, Clinical Educator, Assistant Professor
Tamara Shannon, DNP, RN, CPNP