DNP-Executive Leadership

At the completion of the DNP-EL the graduates will be able to:

• Participate in activities and self-reflection that foster personal and professional wellbeing and resilience, contribute to lifelong learning, and support the development of leadership. (Domain 1)
• Lead and integrate initiatives which drive person-and family-centered care that is culturally responsive, just, respectful, compassionate, coordinated, evidence-based, and developmentally appropriate. (Domain 2)
• Appraise practice patterns and risk stratification to lead evidence-based initiatives that improve holistic care, collaborating in traditional and non-traditional partnerships for the improvement of equitable population health outcomes. (Domain 3)
• Design, implement, evaluate, and disseminate scholarly inquiries that incorporate evidence appraisal, research translation, and best practices to improve outcomes. (Domain 4)
• Design and lead quality and safety initiatives using established and emerging principles of safety and improvement science to mitigate risk of harm to patients and providers and optimize individual performance and system effectiveness. (Domain 5)
• Lead interprofessional teams to address complex needs of the individual, families, community and population through respectful and effective communication and shared decision making. (Domain 6)
• Analyze complex systems impacting the healthcare industry to generate strategic innovations that enhance value, access to care and cost-effectiveness. (Domain 7)
• Leverage information and communication technologies and informatics processes in accordance with best practice and professional and regulatory standards, to analyze and compare quality metrics, impact clinical decision making, and develop knowledge to improve healthcare delivery. (Domain 8)
• Advance core values that promote professionalism, ethical standards, accountability, integrity, empathy, civility, and a spirit of mentorship into one’s advanced nursing specialty practice/role.  (Domain 9)
• Advocate for reflective practices that advance the health and well-being of self and colleagues through engagement in initiatives that support personal health, resilience, life-long learning, and leadership development. (Domain 10)

At the completion of the DNP-EL the graduates will be able to:

• Integrate, translate, and apply established and evolving disciplinary nursing and transdisciplinary knowledge to form the basis for clinical judgment and innovation in nursing practice.
• Model advanced clinical reasoning and person-centered care to improve health equity and population health outcomes across the healthcare delivery continuum.
• Synthesize scientific knowledge to inform evidence-based practice, influence policy, improve health outcomes, and transform health care.
• Lead within complex systems of health care through coordination of resources; through utilization of Information and communication technologies and informatics processes; and, through the application of principles of safety and improvement science to deliver safe, high quality, equitable care.
• Build intentional interprofessional partnerships to optimize care and improve health outcomes for patients, families, communities, and other stakeholders.
• Integrate reflective practices to model a sustainable professional nursing identity that fosters personal health, resilience, and well-being; cultivates lifelong learning; reflects nursing’s characteristics and values; and supports acquisition of nursing expertise and the assertion of leadership.