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 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 consideration of resources 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.
- Explain strategies for engaging in health policy at the organizational, local, state, or national level.
- Integrate the use of information technology to support clinical decision-making for quality patient outcomes.
- Evaluate health disparities among individuals or populations based on the determinants of health.
- Demonstrate practice management competencies.
- Demonstrate role competencies defined by national organizations for nurse practitioners or nurse midwives.
- Disseminate relevant practice outcomes orally and in writing.
- Integrate ethical principles into advanced nursing practice, health care delivery systems, and health policy discussions.
- Foster the application of 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.