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Post Master's to DNP – Executive

Leadership Program Courses

Welcome

WSU offers a Post Masters to DNP - Leadership with 100% online coursework. Additionally, a DNP Project, a final scholarly project that demonstrates clinical scholarship, is also a program requirement and necessitates coming to campus for dissemination.

You will work closely with an advisor/faculty during the course of the program to facilitate your success. As with any doctoral program, you must be highly motivated to complete this program. It is work and time intensive.

See the WSU Catalog for individual course descriptions.

 

DNP Theory Courses & Credits

Course Information

DNP Project & Practicum

The DNP project is a scholarly project that students complete with the goal of translating evidence into practice. All DNP projects contain planning, implementation, and evaluation components. Work on the DNP project begins immediately after starting the doctoral program and continues throughout its entirety.

The DNP project courses synthesize evidence, theories, and scientific principles for the DNP student to create a DNP project plan.

  • NRSG 7801 DNP Project I (1)
  • NRSG 7802 DNP Project II (1)
  • NRSG 7803 DNP Project III (1)

Additionally, DNP practicum hours provide students the opportunity to build on concepts and skills derived from DNP courses and focuses on developing advanced skills in integration and synthesis of practice and knowledge.

  • NRSG 7901 DNP Practicum I (1 credit =60 hours)
  • NRSG 7902 DNP Practicum I (2 credits =120 hours)
  • NRSG 7903 DNP Practicum III (1 credit= 60 hours)

For more information:

American Association of Colleges of Nursing, (AACN). (2015).
The Doctor of Nursing Practice: Current Issues and Clarifying Recommendations Report from the Task Force on the Implementation of the DNP.

Doctor of Nursing Practice DNP. (2018).

DNP Practice Hours

The DNP is a practice doctorate and as such, a minimum of 1,000 hours of post-baccalaureate practice hours is needed to achieve the DNP competencies (AACN, 2006). Students will have a varying amount of transcripted practice hours upon admission to the DNP program and 300 practice hours will be achieved from the DNP practicum. WSU has experiences that are designed to provide students with graduate-level practice hours to achieve the learning objectives related to the AACN DNP Essentials and DNP competencies.

For more information: The Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced Nursing Practice. AACN. (2006).