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Doctor of Nursing Practice: Leadership Track (BSN to DNP)

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Nursing, Graduate

General

Requirements

Learning Outcomes

Requirements

  1. 62-68 hours of graduate credits in nursing.

  2. A minimum of 24 hours of graduate credits earned in residence at Bellarmine.

  3. Maintenance of a 3.0 GPA out of 4.0 overall grade point average throughout the program.

Curriculum Design

Nursing Core Didactic Courses – 33 credit hours

  • NURS 605 Clinical Prevention and Population Health (3 cr)

  • NURS 621 Informatics and Clinical Decision Making (3 cr)

  • NURS 624 Introduction to Knowledge Translation: Evidence to Practice (3 cr)

  • NURS 801 Foundations of Scholarship (2 cr)

  • NURS 802 Foundations of Grant Writing (1 cr)

  • NURS 804 Healthcare Informatics (3 cr)

  • NURS 806 National and Global Health Policy and Law (3 cr)

  • NURS 808 Advanced Statistics for the Health Sciences (3 cr)

  • NURS 810 Methods for Evidence-based Practice in Healthcare (3 cr)

  • NURS 812 Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (3 cr)

  • NURS 814 Clinical Program Development, Implementation, and Evaluation (3 cr)

  • NURS 816 Managerial Epidemiology (3 cr)

Cognate Course – 3 credit hours

  • PHIL 543 Bioethics (3 cr)

DNP Core Clinical Courses - 6 credit hours

  • NURS 891 Practice Immersion I (1 cr)

  • NURS 892 Practice Immersion II (2 cr)

  • NURS 893 Practice Immersion III (1 cr)

  • NURS 895 Residency (2 cr)

Leadership (Focus on Systems/Organizations) – 26 credit hours

  • NURS 608 Healthcare Administration (3 cr)

  • NURS 618 Healthcare Administration Practicum I (2 cr)

  • NURS 625 Financial Aspects of Health Care (3 cr)

  • NURS 639 Health Systems Management (3 cr)

  • One 3-credit Elective by Advisement (3 cr)

  • NURS 841 Selected Topics in Advanced Nursing (with clinical practice hours) (6 cr)*

  • NURS 861 Advanced Leadership and Management of Organizations and Systems (3 cr)

  • NURS 863 Advanced Health Care Economics and Finance (3 cr)

Total: 62-68 credits - total credit requirement is dependent on degree exception below:

*NURS 841 is automatically fulfilled for students holding a current ANCC certification as Nurse Executive-Advanced.