for increasingly complex practice, faculty, and leadership roles
enhanced knowledge to improve nursing practice and pt outcomes
enhanced leadership skills to strengthen practice and health care delivery
better match of program requirements and credits and time with credentials earned
provision of an advanced education credential for those who require advanced practice knowledge but
not a research focus
enhanced ability to attract individuals to nursing from non-nursing back-grounds
increase supply of faculty for nursing instruction
DNP Essentials 1 - 8 - ANS-1. Scientific underpinnings for practice
2. Organizational and systems leadership for quality improvement and systems thinking
3. Clinical scholarship and analytical methods for EBP
4. Information systems/technology and patient care technology for the improvement and
transformation of health care
5. Health care policy for advocacy in health care
6. Interprofessional collaboration for improving patient and population health outcomes
7. Clinical prevention and population health for improving the nation's health
8. Advance nursing practice
Scientific Underpinnings for practice - ANS-*integrate nursing science with knowledge from ethics,
biophysical, psych, analytical and organizational sciences
*Use science based theories and concepts to determine nature and significance of health and health
care delivery; describe the actions and advanced strategies to enhance, alleviate and ameliorate health
and health care delivery phenomena, and evaluate outcomes
*Develop and evaluate new practice approaches based on nursing theories and other theories.