| Characteristic |
Doctor of Nursing Practice |
PhD in Nursing |
| Focus |
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| Degree Objective |
- Prepare nurse leaders to improve patient care outcomes
- Engage in advanced nursing practice
- Provide leadership in innovations in health care delivery and development of health policy
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- Prepare nurse scientists who will contribute to development of new knowledge, theory generations, and hypothesis testing to advance the science and theoretical and philosophical foundations of nursing
- Dissemination of research discoveries by nurse scientists develops the evidence base that improves health care and guides health policy
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| Curriculum Focus |
- Promote change in advanced clinical practice
- Health promotion, health care quality improvement, and evidence-based practice
- Information systems and technology
- Organization and system leadership
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- Communicate research findings to the scientific and social policy communities
- Steward discipline
- Integrate the components of scholarship: research, teaching, mentoring, and services to profession
- Educating the next generation contributing to the formal and informal education of future nurses through discovery, application, and integration
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| Core Course Work |
- Scientific writing
- Epidemiology
- Evaluating research evidence
- Applied informatics
- Advanced clinical practice
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- Scientific writing
- Grant writing techniques
- Interpreting research evidence
- Theory construction
- Formal designing and testing interventions and innovations
- Quantitative and qualitative research methodologies
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| Employment Opportunities |
- Advanced Nurse Practitioner
- Clinical Nurse Faculty
- Leadership positions in health care organizations, industry, government
- Policy and change agent
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- Academic faculty
- Clinical researcher
- Principal research investigator
- Research scientist/policy maker
- Leadership positions in health care organizations, industry, government
- Director of Research
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