Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Online Program

Prepare for Advanced Nursing Practice and Transformational Leadership

Career-Focused. Student-Centered. Success-Oriented.

King University’s Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) is an academically rigorous program that prepares you to integrate Christian faith, scholarship, and service into your career and daily life as a nursing leader. On average, King University DNP students complete their program in two years.

Our DNP includes online coursework, in-person colloquia, and clinical hours. You’ll learn alongside a cohort of supportive peers in classes with small student-to-faculty ratios, which allows for a more individualized experience. You will have the opportunity to engage in real time with your cohort and faculty during three virtual colloquia throughout the program.

As a DNP graduate, you’ll have clinical, organizational, financial, and leadership skills that enable you to translate research into practice. You can count on your King University nursing education to help you improve healthcare quality and outcomes for your patients, systems, and community.

Our unwavering commitment to our students means that you’ll receive the education you need for meaningful professional and personal growth through a relevant and industry-specific course of study. Discover today why King University has the difference you need to advance your career.

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Leading-Edge Curriculum Delivered by Experts

King University’s devoted nursing faculty will lead you through online courses with topics in theoretical foundations, nursing informatics, evidence-based practice, nursing research, data analytics, healthcare policy, and more. Your coursework and clinical experience will conclude with a faculty-mentored project that features scholarly research and data you’ll gather from a practice setting convenient to you.

Courses you will take in this program include:

This course synthesizes leadership theory, behaviors, and organizational models within the context of the healthcare industry. Models of resource management, change process, gap analysis, strategic planning, and performance excellence are explored and applied. Based on these theories, models, and applications, the student will put the DNP role precepts into practice across complex healthcare organizations and systems.

This course examines the science of demography and how demographic phenomena affect public health. The focus of demography includes birth rates, death rates, age and gender, the structure of populations, population change, and distribution. The course prepares the student to define and identify populations and sub-populations of interest, describe the health status and needs of populations, and evaluate services provided to populations by local, regional, and federal public health agencies, as well as population-based private healthcare organizations. An emphasis on a critical analysis of the evidence-based literature on assessment, development, intervention, and evaluation of population health will assist the student in incorporating successful population health interventions into practice. The student will utilize accountability in determining priorities and evaluating outcomes of population-focused programs. Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be awarded 70 clinical experiential learning hours.

This course explores complex ethical issues related to healthcare in advanced nursing practice. Application of ethical principles and theories are examined and applied through analysis of selected issues and themes at the individual, population, institutional, and societal levels. This course prepares the student to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate information in order to develop the precepts required to examine ethical dilemmas and to create a decisional framework as required by nurses at the doctoral level.

This advanced health informatics course focuses on the critical appraisal of the role of nurse leaders, practitioners, and specialists as they interface with healthcare information systems for outcomes management and improvement. Advanced data mining skills will be used to evaluate a selected practice issue, provide decision support, identify best practices, and make evidence-based recommendations for improved patient, system, financial, and efficiency outcomes.

The Benefits of Online Learning

Learning in an online format provides the opportunity to adjust your academic path based on your personal preferences. You’ll have the chance to spend as much time with instructional materials as you need. King University’s online programs offer the same course of study and level of academic rigor as our on-campus counterparts. You’ll have access to the same experienced faculty and faith-based learning environment, and connect with your peers in a caring community atmosphere.

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Demand for DNP Graduates is Growing

Your DNP from King University allows you to stay competitive with in-demand skills for several nursing careers. According to the AACN, “the number of leadership and executive positions that require or prefer a DNP is growing.”1 Employers want DNP graduates who can successfully use evidence-based methods to plan, deliver, and evaluate healthcare.

Accreditation

King University and its nursing programs maintain academic standards by continually meeting the rigorous requirements necessary for accreditation.

  • King University is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award associate, baccalaureate, master’s, and doctoral degrees.
  • The School of Nursing programs are fully approved by the Tennessee Board of Nursing and are members of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.
  • The baccalaureate degree program in nursing, master’s degree program in nursing, and Doctor of Nursing Practice program at King University are accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education.

Who We Are

King University is a Presbyterian-affiliated, doctoral-level comprehensive university dedicated to the integration of rigorous academic programming and the exploration of faith. For more than 150 years, we have offered students the opportunity to excel as thoughtful, resourceful, and responsible citizens with a passion for serving the world.

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Sources:

  1. American Association of Colleges of Nursing. “The State of Doctor of Nursing Practice Education in 2022.” Retrieved Sept. 16, 2022, from https://www.aacnnursing.org/.
  2. PayScale. “Average Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) Salary.” Retrieved Sept. 16, 2022, from https://www.payscale.com/.
  3. PayScale. “Average Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) Salary.” Retrieved Sept. 16, 2022, from https://www.payscale.com/.
  4. PayScale. “Average Nurse Administrator Salary.” Retrieved Sept. 16, 2022, from https://www.payscale.com/.
  5. PayScale. “Average Informatics Nurse Salary.” Retrieved Sept. 16, 2022, from https://www.payscale.com/.