Program Overview

DNP Executive/MPH Dual Degree

The DNP Executive/MPH dual degree offered through the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health integrates nursing and population health frameworks to prepare nurse leaders to improve population health and advance health equity.

Overview

Graduates will be prepared to employ systems-level thinking to address local and global health challenges by shaping policy, interventions, and quality improvements to create lasting change.

Accreditation

• The Doctor of Nursing Practice program at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), 655 K Street, NW, Suite 750, Washington, DC 20001.
• The Master of Public Health program at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH), 1010 Wayne Avenue, Suite 220, Silver Spring, MD 20910.

Program Details

• The 80-credit dual degree program is offered in a convenient executive-style format, integrating online and virtual learning experiences with on-site immersions.
• This dual degree option can be completed in three years.
• For a dual degree, all coursework must be completed before either degree is awarded.

Target Audience

The DNP Executive/MPH 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
• Health policy analyst

Clinical Hours

• Clinical hours obtained as part of the masters degree can be applied to the DNP program.
• The student obtains 448 practice hours in association with the conduct of the DNP Project in addition to 552 practice hours obtained from the previous advanced nursing practice program, to meet a minimum of 1000 hours.

Plan of Study Overview

1. Streamlined requirements: Fewer required courses at each school, select courses that fulfill requirements across the two programs, time and credit savings.
2. Electives: A diverse set of electives is available at JHBSPH.
3. Specialization: Students have the opportunity to specialize in their own areas of interest by tailoring their public health coursework. The specialization can inform the combined DNP/MPH project.
4. Combined DNP/MPH projects: Students undertake a combined DNP/MPH project in their third year that synthesizes their knowledge and skills in nursing and population health. The project fulfills the criteria for the DNP Executive project as well as the MPH Capstone project.

Admission Requirements

Apply through the School of Nursing website.

Program of Study

The program is structured over three years, with a combination of online, virtual, and on-site learning experiences. The curriculum includes:

• First Year: Foundations in epidemiology, social and behavioral foundations of primary health care, public health practice, and more.
• Second Year: Organizational and systems leadership, statistical reasoning in public health, population dynamics, and foundational principles of public health.
• Third Year: Specialized electives, project advancement, health finance, and a final project evaluation and dissemination.

Program Outcomes

The program is designed to achieve the following outcomes based on the AACN DNP Essentials and the Accreditation Criteria for Schools of Public Health and Public Health Programs (CEPH):

• Knowledge for Nursing Practice: Demonstrate competencies to perform at the full scope of advanced nursing practice for the specialty.
• Person-Centered Care: Partner with others to deliver person-centered care that focuses on the individual and family within multiple contexts and addresses social determinants of health.
• Population Health: Critically analyze, identify strategies, and establish partnerships to achieve equitable and inclusive population health policies, health promotion, and disease management outcomes across diverse systems.
• Scholarship for Nursing Discipline: Integrate, generate, synthesize, translate, apply, and disseminate nursing knowledge to improve health equity and transform healthcare at the local, national, and global level.
• Quality and Safety: Build upon and employ 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.
• Interprofessional Relationships: Maintain and build collaborations across professions and with care team members, patients, families, communities, and other partners to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and strengthen outcomes.
• Systems-Based Practice: Demonstrate leadership within complex healthcare systems to provide safe, quality, equitable care to diverse populations.
• Informatics and Healthcare Technologies: Provide 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.
• Professionalism: Cultivate a professional identity that aligns with the core values of accountability, excellence, integrity, diversity, equity, and respect.
• Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development: Participate in self-reflection and activities that foster professional nursing expertise, personal health, resilience, and well-being, to promote growth through lifelong learning.

Master of Public Health (MPH) Program Outcomes

A graduate of the Master of Public Health (MPH) program will attain grounding in foundational public health knowledge as measured by the following learning objectives:

• Profession & Science of Public Health: Explain public health history, philosophy, and values; identify the core functions of public health and the 10 Essential Services; explain the role of quantitative and qualitative methods and sciences in describing and assessing a populations health.
• Factors Related to Human Health: Explain effects of environmental, biological, genetic, behavioral, and psychological factors on a populations health; discuss the social, political, and economic determinants of health and how they contribute to population health and health inequities.
• Evidence-Based Approaches to Public Health: Apply epidemiological methods; select quantitative and qualitative data collection methods; analyze data using biostatistics, informatics, computer-based programming, and software; interpret results of data analysis for public health research, policy, or practice.
• Public Health & Healthcare Systems: Compare the organization, structure, and function of health care, public health, and regulatory systems across national and international settings; discuss how structural bias, social inequities, and racism undermine health and create challenges to achieving health equity.
• Planning & Management to Promote Health: Assess population needs, assets, and capacities that affect communities health; apply awareness of cultural values and practices to the design or implementation of public health policies or programs; design a population-based policy, program, project, or intervention.
• Policy in Public Health: Discuss multiple dimensions of the policy-making process, including the roles of ethics and evidence; propose strategies to identify stakeholders and build coalitions and partnerships for influencing public health outcomes; advocate for political, social, or economic policies and programs that will improve health in diverse populations.
• Leadership: Apply principles of leadership, governance, and management, which include creating a vision, empowering others, fostering collaboration, and guiding decision-making.
• Communication: Select communication strategies for different audiences and sectors; communicate audience-appropriate public health content, both in writing and through oral presentation.
• Interprofessional Practice: Perform effectively on interprofessional teams.
• Systems Thinking: Apply systems thinking tools to a public health issue.