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Doctor of Nursing Practice, Advanced Practice Track

The Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). The program is a practice-focused doctoral program that prepares expert nurse clinicians, administrators, and executive leaders to improve health and healthcare outcomes.

Program Overview

The mission of the DNP program is to prepare nurse leaders to practice at the full scope of advanced nursing practice for the specialty and to translate evidence into practice. The program focuses on innovative and evidence-based practice, reflecting the application of credible research findings. Students develop advanced knowledge and skills through evidence-based practice in diverse clinical, healthcare, and academic settings.

DNP Advanced Practice Program

The DNP Advanced Practice option is a post-baccalaureate to DNP program that prepares students for the Nurse Practitioner role with a focus on a specific population or the Clinical Nurse Specialist role. The program offers various tracks, including:

• Adult-Gerontological Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
• Adult-Gerontological Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist
• Adult-Gerontological Primary Care Nurse Practitioner
• Family Primary Care Nurse Practitioner
• Nurse Anesthesia
• Pediatric Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist
• Pediatric Dual Primary/Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
• Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner
• Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

Program Outcomes

The program outcomes are based on the Advanced and Entry-level competencies as described in "The Essentials: Core competencies for professional nursing education" (AACN, 2021). The outcomes include:

• Essential: Knowledge for Nursing Practice
  • Program Outcome: A scholar who demonstrates competencies to perform at the full scope of advanced nursing practice for the specialty.
• Essential: Person Centered Care
  • Program Outcome: A partner with others to deliver person-centered care that focuses on the individual and family within multiple contexts and addresses social determinants of health.
• Essential: Population Health
  • Program Outcome: An advocate who critically analyzes, identifies strategies, and establishes partnerships to achieve equitable and inclusive population health policies, health promotion, and disease management outcomes across diverse systems.
• Essential: Scholarship for Nursing Discipline
  • Program Outcome: A scholar who integrates, generates, synthesizes, translates, applies, and disseminates nursing knowledge to improve health equity and transform healthcare at the local, national, and global level.
• Essential: Quality and Safety
  • Program Outcome: A leader who builds upon and employs established and emerging principles of safety and improvement science to enhance healthcare quality and minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
• Essential: Interprofessional Relationships
  • Program Outcome: A trailblazer who maintains and builds collaborations across professions and with care team members, patients, families, communities, and other partners to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and strengthen outcomes.
• Essential: Systems-based practice
  • Program Outcome: A contributor who demonstrates leadership within complex healthcare systems to provide safe, quality, equitable care to diverse populations.
• Essential: Informatics and Healthcare Technologies
  • Program Outcome: A proficient provider of communication and patient care technologies and informatics processes to gather data, drive decision-making, and improve the delivery of safe, equitable, high-quality, and efficient healthcare services.
• Essential: Professionalism
  • Program Outcome: A leader who cultivates a professional identity that aligns with the core values of accountability, excellence, integrity, diversity, and equity, and respect.
• Essential: Personal, professional, and leadership development
  • Program Outcome: A leader who participates in self-reflection and activities that foster professional nursing expertise, personal health, resilience, and well-being, to promote growth through lifelong learning.