Program Overview

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Doctor of Nursing Practice: Executive Track

The Doctor of Nursing Practice program at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). The DNP Executive Track option is a post-masters to DNP program designed for students to remain in practice while gaining the knowledge, skills, and abilities to lead cross-professional teams in the improvement and provision of informed quality health care.

Overview

The 40-credit DNP Executive Track is offered online with required on-site course immersions. The program can be completed in six semesters of study. The DNP is designed for nurses involved in an advanced nursing practice role, including but not limited to: clinical nurse specialist, nurse practitioner, nurse midwife, nurse anesthetist, public health practitioner, nurse executive, nurse informatician, and health policy analyst.

Program Requirements

• The 40-credit DNP Executive Track includes 19 credits of required DNP core, 12 credits for the required DNP Project, and 9 credits of elective/cognate courses related to the students focus specialty area.
• Students who require additional practice hours to fulfill the 1000 practice hours may take additional DNP Practicum course(s) for 1 (56 practice hours) to 2 (112 practice hours) credits to close that gap.
• Students who are concurrently completing the Nurse Educator Certificate Option (NECO) may utilize all of their NECO credits towards fulfillment of their (9) required electives.
• Students must complete the program within 6 years.

Course List

Course List Code	Title	Credits
NR.210.802	Advanced Nursing Health Policy	2
NR.210.803	Nursing Inquiry for Evidence-Based Practice	3
NR.210.804	Organizational and Systems Leadership for Quality Care	2
NR.210.805	Translating Evidence into Practice	3
NR.210.806	Health Finance	2
NR.210.817	Analysis and Evaluation of Individual and Population Health Data	3
NR.210.818	Clinical Data Management and Analyses	2
NR.210.822	Health Information Systems and Patient Care Technologies	2
NR.210.886	Problem Discovery	3
NR.210.887	Project Advancement	3
NR.210.888	Project Application	3
NR.210.889	Project Evaluation and Dissemination	3
Electives	9
Total Credits	40

Program of Study

The program is designed to be completed in six semesters, with the following plan of study:

1. First Semester:

• NR.210.886 Problem Discovery (3 credits)
• NR.210.806 Health Finance (2 credits)

2. Second Semester:

• NR.210.803 Nursing Inquiry for Evidence-Based Practice (3 credits)
• NR.210.802 Advanced Nursing Health Policy (2 credits)
• NR.210.804 Organizational and Systems Leadership for Quality Care (2 credits)

3. Third Semester:

• NR.210.805 Translating Evidence into Practice (3 credits)
• NR.210.887 Project Advancement (3 credits)
• Elective (students choice) (3 credits)

4. Fourth Semester:

• NR.210.817 Analysis and Evaluation of Individual and Population Health Data (3 credits)
• NR.210.822 Health Information Systems and Patient Care Technologies (2 credits)
• Elective (students choice) (3 credits)

5. Fifth Semester:

• NR.210.888 Project Application (3 credits)
• Elective (students choice) (3 credits)

6. Sixth Semester:

• NR.210.889 Project Evaluation and Dissemination (3 credits)
• NR.210.818 Clinical Data Management and Analyses (2 credits)

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: A scholar who demonstrates competencies to perform at the full scope of advanced nursing practice for the specialty.
• Essential: Person-Centered Care: 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: 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: A scholar who integrates, generates, synthesizes, translates, applies, and disseminates nursing knowledge to improve health equity and transform health care at the local, national, and global level.
• Essential: Quality and Safety: A leader who builds upon and employs established and emerging principles of safety and improvement science to enhance health care quality and minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
• Essential: Interprofessional Relationships: 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: A contributor who demonstrates leadership within complex health care systems to provide safe, quality, equitable care to diverse populations.
• Essential: Informatics and Healthcare Technologies: A proficient provider of communication and patient care technologies and informatics processes to gather data, drive decision-making, to improve and provide the delivery of safe, equitable, high-quality, and efficient healthcare services.
• Essential: Professionalism: 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: 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.