DNP Course List

Year	Course	Credits
One
Fall	NURS 715: Pathophysiology for Advanced Nursing Practice	3
	NURS 720: Pharmacotherapeutics in Advanced Nursing Practice	3
	NURS 936: Informatics and Safe and Effective Health Care	3
Spring	NURS 740: Evidence-Based Practice and Research	3
	NURS 945: Population Health in a Global Context	3
	NURS 969: Applied Data Analysis	3
Summer	NURS 934: Clinical Scholarship and Professional Communication	3
	NURS 935: Leading Organizational and Systems Change	3
Two
Fall	NURS 750: Advanced Health and Physical Assessment for Advanced Practice Nursing — 45 lab hours	3
	NURS 752: Advanced Diagnostic Reasoning and Management	2
	NURS 921: Theoretical Principles of Evidence-Based Practice	3
	NURS 922: Critical Appraisal of Evidence (2 cr th, 1 cr recitation)	3
	Qualifying Exam
Spring	NURS 723: Psychiatric Diagnosis and Psychopharmacology Across the Lifespan	5
	NURS 860: Biopsychosocial Care 1: Psychiatric Mental Health Interventions Across the Lifespan (120 clinical hours)
	NURS 923: Implementation and Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practice	3
	NURS 994: DNP Project	3
Summer	NURS 865: Biopsychosocial Care 2: Psychiatric Mental Health Interventions with Children	3
	NURS 994: DNP Project (If implementing DNP Project in the summer)	3
Three
Fall	NURS 864: Biopsychosocial Care 3: Psychiatric Mental Health Interventions in the Context of Relationships Across the Lifespan — 180 clinical hours	6
	NURS 967: Economics and Financing of Health Care Systems	3
	NURS 994: DNP Project	3
Spring	NURS 868: Biopsychosocial Care 4: Management of Complex Psychiatric Mental Health Problems Across the Lifespan — 240 Clinical Hours	6
	NURS 938: Public Policy and Advocacy in Health Care	3
	NURS 994: DNP Project (if completing project)	3

Clinical hours must be taken in sequence.