Program Overview
The Doctorate of Nursing Practice for Nurse Executives is designed for licensed, registered nurses with a BSN and a Master’s Degree in a related field (MBA, MPH, MHA) or an MSN in Nursing Administration.
The University of New Mexico’s College of Nursing (CoN) recognizes a state and national need to prepare nurse executives by providing a Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree that is focused on Nurse Executive Organizational Leadership (NEOL) through unique learning experiences and represents a curriculum that blends the American Association of Colleges of Nursing's(AACN) DNP Essentials with the 14 Forces of Magnetism from the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Magnet Recognition Program® and the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows principles. There are eleven program outcomes expected of the DNP graduate:
1. Assume the role of the doctorally prepared nurse in teaching, scholarship, leadership, and service.
2. Apply analytic methods to create, evaluate, and adopt effective innovations to improve health.
3. Analyze, translate, and apply evidence to improve health outcomes.
4. Engage individuals and communities to develop, implement, and evaluate interventions to address their health disparities.
5. Facilitate optimal health outcomes through delivery of culturally sensitive care, including clinical prevention strategies, identification of risk, individualized interventions, and formation of therapeutic relationships with clients.
6. Apply clinical, community, and policy interventions to reduce health inequities.
7. Evaluate and critique social policy relevant to the organization and delivery of health care.
8. Integrate and evaluate information systems in patient care technology for clinical, research, and administrative best practices.
9. Apply leadership and advocacy skills in the development, implementation, and evaluation of health policy.
10. Utilize effective management and organizational skills to assume a leadership role in health care delivery, policy, and systems.
11. Practice nursing reflectively, guided by theory, based on best evidence and integrating creative and critical thinking.
Join our program taught by faculty who are health care experts adept in addressing emergent and challenging issues facing nurse executives and leaders. Our faculty provides our students with a relevant educational experience that prepares them to transform nursing and health within complex health care systems.
- To assure that the education and development of future nurse leaders is comprehensive and current; the CoN employs temporary part-time faculty (TPT) Executive Nurse Scholars as part of the faculty. These Executive Nurse Scholars are current or former nurse executives with a minimum of both a doctoral degree and five years of experience in senior nursing management, leadership, and executive-level positions.
An on-site orientation is held at the beginning of each year of the program
- This interactive session provides students an opportunity to interact with prominent nurse executives and current CoN faculty from across the state.
- Networking with colleagues across local and state health care and policy organizations to share best practices and create opportunities that will shape and implement innovative changes in the health care system.
This year round full time program can be completed in six consecutive terms and is offered fully online. Future nurse executives are educated and developed to meet the demands of today's health care environment via on-line teaching modules using problem-based learning, case studies, discussion boards, team projects, and narrated power point presentations.
- Because of the type of master’s degree and clinical residency experience you already possess, you may be eligible to waive up to three credits of the 36 credit curriculum through a post-admission portfolio process.
- The curriculum provides the opportunity to collaborate with other experienced, highly qualified nurse executives who are actively working in senior management roles.