Doctor of Nursing Practice: Post-Master's
Doctor of Nursing Practice: Post-Master's
Complete the doctorate of nursing practice online in as little as 21 months.
Designed for working nurses with a master's degree who wish to influence change in healthcare settings and improve patient outcomes.
Be part of a proven program designed to produce leaders in nursing.
The curriculum at ÑÇÉ«Ó°¿â builds on your personal motivations and a tradition of 120+ years of clinical and educational excellence, leadership, and social justice.
The post-master's DNP is a rigorous, relevant, and challenging online program based on a cohort learning model; you will enter and proceed through the program with the same group of nurses. Courses in the DNP program are innovative and interrelated.
Class sizes are small, and students enjoy ready access to experienced faculty and community advisors and mentors. Strong faculty partnerships create powerful links between your coursework, professional interests, and academic goals during these experiences.
Driven by St. Kate's mission-based focus on social justice and leadership, our DNP program graduates are prepared to improve health outcomes through:
- Evidence-based practice
- Quality improvement project leadership
- Application of healthcare economics and informatics
- Facilitation of changes in health policy
During the program, you will apply quality improvement concepts to a DNP project with support from faculty and community advisors who are experts in their fields. The purpose of the DNP project is to improve health outcomes through change management and organizational leadership focusing on social justice in health care.
Students of all genders are welcome in this program. Please note that the Post-Master's DNP does not include coursework for Nurse Practitioner roles.
Program at a Glance
Format: Online
Start: Fall
Time to completion: 21 months
Credits required: 34
Tuition per credit: $1,200 (2024-25 rates)
Total tuition: $43,200
Rates are subject to change each June 1.
All applicants will be reviewed for DNP scholarships.
Degree questions, answered.
Below is a sample plan of study. For course descriptions and other details, consult the program in the .
Fall
- NURS 8140 Foundations of Nursing Practice (3cr)
- STAT 7000 Introduction to Biostatistics (3cr)
Spring
- NURS 8300 Advanced Outcomes Measurement and Evaluation (3cr)
- NURS 8520 Advanced Evidence-Based Practice (3cr)
- DNP Integration I (2cr)
Summer
- NURS 7080 Informatics for Advanced Nursing Practice (3cr)
- DNP Integration II (2cr)
Fall
- NURS 8150 Leadership for Advanced Nursing Practice (3cr)
- NURS 8536 Health Care Economics and Finance (3cr)
- DNP Integration III (2cr)
Spring
- NURS 8540 Health Care: Power, Policy and Politics (3cr)
- NURS 8600 DNP Practicum (2cr)
- DNP Integration IV (2cr)
Due to state-level regulations, we are unable to enroll students who will be residing in any of these states while enrolled in this program: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New York, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Canada.
Important Essential Abilities:
For successful admission and continuance in ÑÇÉ«Ó°¿â's nursing programs, a specific set of essential cognitive, sensory, communication, psychomotor, and behavioral/emotional health abilities are required to be performed with or without reasonable accommodations.
Health Profession and Nursing Students (or those considering these programs as a major):
Exemptions to the University’s mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy may affect your ability to be placed at clinical and fieldwork sites and may result in inability to progress in your program. All health profession students with COVID-19 vaccine exemptions are required to sign the prior to applying to the programs. For more information, please contact (studentcompliance@stkate.edu) or your program of study director.
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