Tab section ofDoctor of Nursing Practice
Students who complete the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program at NYU Meyers are prepared at the highest academic level for advanced clinical practice. The DNP enables clinical scholars to function as organizational systems thinkers and leaders in practice innovation, quality, and safety. As experts in translating evidence-based knowledge into clinical practice, graduates lead interprofessional teams in the transformation of healthcare by improving population health outcomes utilizing skills and essential competencies in ethical decision-making, healthcare policy, informatics, business, finance, and economics.
Program outcomes
- Lead the design, implementation, management, and evaluation of quality improvement projects using an evidence-based practice/practice improvement framework to promote health equity, address health disparities, and further excellence in practice.
- Synthesize the best available evidence, coupled with clinical expertise, patient preferences, and resource considerations to improve clinical practice and health care delivery systems.
- Lead interprofessional teams on initiatives that promote patient-centered quality health care to improve patient outcomes.
- Utilize strategies for engaging in health policy at the organizational, local, state, or national level.
- Evaluate the implementation of information technology, digital technology and artificial intelligence to support clinical decision-making for quality patient outcomes.
- Implement evidence-based interventions to mitigate healthcare disparities among underrepresented individuals and populations of all ages based on the political and socioeconomic drivers and determinants of health.
- Apply fiscal, budgetary, and economic principles to problem-solving within health systems and other organizations to improve healthcare systems.
- Demonstrate professional role competencies consistent with national standards for advanced nursing and midwives.
- Disseminate relevant practice outcomes orally and in writing.
- Integrate ethical principles into advanced nursing practice, health care delivery systems, and health policy discussions.
- Apply cultural humility principles, attitudes, and behaviors into advanced nursing practice, health care delivery system, and health policy.
The DNP program outcomes are reaffirmed or revised annually by the DNP Workgroup. The DNP Workgroup Team comprised of faculty teaching in the program, faculty serving as mentors and reviewers, and administrative staff, meets every other month during the academic year.