The Doctor of Nursing Practice: Preparing an Expert Advanced Practice Nursing Workforce

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The Doctor of Nursing Practice Preparing an
Expert Advanced Practice Nursing Workforce
Patricia Bowman, DNP Marguerite Murphy, DNP

• Medical College of Georgia School of Nursing

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Advance Practice Nursing

• APN Competencies
• What are they?
• Who determines them?
• How do we prepare nurses to meet these
  expectations?

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Advance Practice Nursing

• Nursing Education
• AACN Educational Essentials for Advance Practice
  Nursing
• Masters Core and Advance Practice Education
  Essentials
• Doctor of Nursing
• Practice Essentials

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AACN DNP Essentials

• I. Scientific Underpinnings for Practice
• II. Organizational and Systems Leadership for
  Quality Improvement and Systems Thinking
• III. Clinical Scholarship and Analytical Methods
  for Evidence-Based Practice
• IV. Information Systems/Technology and Patient
  Care Technology for the Improvement and
  Transformation of Health Care
• V. Health Care Policy for Advocacy in Health Care
  
• VI. Interprofessional Collaboration for Improving
  Patient and Population Health Outcomes
• VII. Clinical Prevention and Population Health
  for Improving the Nations Health
• VIII. Advanced Nursing Practice
• FROM http//www.aacn.nche.edu/DNP/index.htm

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Doctor of Nursing Practice

• A program designed to educate advanced nurse
  clinicians for expert practice in leadership and
  clinical roles.
• Recommended as entry level degree for all new
  advance practice nurses by 2015

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Doctor of Nursing Practice

• Practice Doctorate scholarship focus is improving
  health outcomes by translating synthesized
  knowledge to practice, evaluating process and
  outcomes, and creating change in systems.

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Doctor of Nursing Practice

• Competency Mastery and the DNP
• Coursework
• DNP Project

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Doctor of Nursing Practice

• MCG DNP Course Examples
• Examination of Practice
• Methods for Evidence Based Practice
• Bioethics
• Directed Studies in Advanced Science
• Informatics
• Utilizing Systems to Improve Health Care Outcomes

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DNP CURRICULUM OVERVIEW Total Credits 40 Total
Clinical/Residency Hrs 675 2 prerequisites
Graduate Biostatistics and Epidemiology
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Doctor of Nursing Practice

• MCG DNP Project Examples
• Program Evaluation of a Nurse Practitioner
  Directed Pediatric Voiding Dysfunction Clinic
• Crisis Team Training of a Perinatal Rapid
  Response Team Using Simulation Technology
• A Pilot Research Study to Evaluate a Practice
  Change Project Targeting Patient Discharge
  Instructions in the Emergency Department

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• MCG DNP Public Health Projects
• Evaluation of a Program to Address the Public
  Health Nursing Shortage
• Program Evaluation of a Public Health Case
  Management Program

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• QUESTIONS?

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Contact and Resources

• My e-mail
• pbowman_at_mcg.edu
• AACN
• http//www.aacn.nche.edu/DNP/index.htm
• MCG DNP program
• http//www.mcg.edu/son/DNP.htm

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• Contact / Resource information
• My e-mail
• pbowman_at_mcg.edu
• AACN
• http//www.aacn.nche.edu/DNP/index.htm
• MCG DNP program
• http//www.mcg.edu/son/DNP.htm