Program Outcomes
DNP Program Outcomes
The UTC DNP curriculum is based on the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced Nursing Practice (AACN, 2021).
1. Practice in a specialized advanced nursing role through comprehensive assessment, ethically and culturally sensitive planning, therapeutic intervention and evidence-based evaluation. (Essentials 8)
2. Apply evidence-based prevention by integrating epidemiological, biostatistical, environmental and other scientific data in providing health services to individuals, aggregates and/or populations. (Essentials 7)
3. Employ organizational and systems leadership competencies to address current and future health, safety and other quality improvement issues for health services. (Essentials 2)
4. Critically appraise information systems and advanced technical resources to support and improve health care. (Essentials 4)
5. Critically seek and appraise new knowledge from nursing and other sciences and translate this knowledge in developing, implementing and evaluating new practice approaches to meet goals for improving health care. (Essentials 1, 3)
6. Initiate, analyze and/or influence proposals for health policy, respecting the perspectives of the consumer, other health care providers and the affected communities or public entities, while incorporating principles of business, finance and economics. (Essentials 5)
7. Stimulate effective system change as a leader or a member of a collaborative and/or inter-professional team. (Essentials 6)
Upon completion of the DNP program the student will demonstrate the ability to:
- PO 1: Critically seek, Integrate, and appraise knowledge from nursing and other disciplines, translate and apply this knowledge in developing, and evaluating, implementing, and disseminating new practice approaches to improve health and transform health care. (D1, D4)
PO 2: Provide compassionate, holistic, evidence-based care to individuals and populations utilizing epidemiological, biostatistical, environmental, and other scientific data for the improvement of health outcomes. (D2, D 3)
PO 3: Employ individual, organizational, and systems leadership competencies to address current and future health, safety, and other issues, to enhance quality and minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through the use of improvement science. (D5)
PO 4: Promote intentional collaboration across professions and with care team members, patients, families, communities, and other stakeholders to optimize care, analyze and/or influence proposals for health policy, and the affected communities (D6)
PO 5. Respond to and lead effective system change within complex systems of health care through the coordination of resources to provide safe, quality, and equitable care to diverse populations. (D7)
PO 6: Utilize Information and communication technologies and informatic processes to provide high-quality care, gather data, form information to drive decision making, and support professionals as they expand professional knowledge, and improve health care in accordance with best-practice and regulatory standards. (D8)
PO7: Formulate and cultivate a sustainable professional nursing identity and accountability that reflects nursing’s characteristics and values through practice in a specialized advanced nursing role. Participate in self-reflection and foster personal health, well-being, and support the acquisition of nursing expertise through therapeutic intervention, evidence-based evaluation, and assertion of leadership. (D9, 10)