Nurse Executive Program

Innovative group and individual learning in the integration of advanced systems science, health policy, finance, and human resource optimization to achieve highest quality healthcare.

Students will meet a required 1,000 hours of executive training experiences, which includes hours in previous leadership programs. DNP-NE students can be awarded 500 hours if they are certified as a Nurse Executive, with a certification that requires a Masters Degree.

Curriculum (full-time) Curriculum (part-time)

• Online learning
• Attend full time or part time (and work while you attend school)
• Interactive web-based classes taught by experienced online instructors
• Capstone/practice project completed in your area of expertise
• Opportunity to study with faculty who are practice experts

• Scientific/Social/Psychological Foundation: Integrates and applies nursing and foundational sciences to effectively practice in complex, evolving healthcare systems
• Safe Quality Care Within Healthcare Systems: Analyze and effect quality outcomes in healthcare system
• Evidenced Based Practice/Research: Improve healthcare outcomes with application of evidence in the healthcare environment
• Health Care Technology/Informatics: Analyzes and facilitates the use of information systems/ technology to monitor and improve patient care outcomes and healthcare systems.
• Health Care Policy: Analyzes the multiple levels of policy to advocate for issues which have actual or potential impact on nursing and healthcare outcomes.
• Interprofessional Collaboration/Communication: Employs strategies to lead develop and contribute toward productive interprofessional teams for the improvement of healthcare outcomes.
• Population Health: Demonstrate the ability to evaluate, synthesize and apply theory, models, and research to impact health care of diverse populations.
• Professional Practice: Utilizes the competencies of an advanced practice expert to design, implement and evaluate evidence based care within specialty.