*This program is no longer actively enrolling new students.

Program Description

The Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program is an online doctoral completion program for advanced practice nurses and nurses in advanced roles who have earned a master’s degree in nursing. The DNP program prepares, supports, and empowers students for 21^st century practice focused on interdisciplinary knowledge, leadership, innovation, along with the tools needed to positively impact nursing, healthcare systems, and population health change. Each course begins and ends with leadership development. Using the principals of improvement science, students appraise and translate theory and evidence into a culminating project in their own practice.

Program Outcomes

Upon completion of their program, the student should be able to:

1.  Demonstrate competency-based judgement and holistic caring concordant with an advanced nursing practice specialty or role in diverse populations.
2.  Generate, synthesize, translate, apply, and disseminate scientific evidence for advanced nursing practice.
3.  Apply ethical principles to shape the future of healthcare delivery with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion; systems‐based practice; team-based care collaboration, informatics and technology; and career‐long learning.
4.  Demonstrate a professional identity which includes accountability, perspective, collaborative disposition, and comportment, that reflects nursing’s characteristics and values.
5.  Implement an advanced nursing practice specialty or role in selected practice settings.

Project Residency Requirements

Students in the Doctor of Nursing Practice program are required to document a minimum of 1000 practice hours post baccalaureate level of education of which a minimum of 300 hours must be completed at Herzing University as a part of the DNP Practice Project.  Students are required to submit a verification of hours earned in their prior graduate program during the first semester of their program.

Program Content

A minimum of 32.00 semester credit hours is required for graduation.