The Doctor of Nursing Practice in Executive Leadership (DNP-EL) offers nurses with a Master’s degree a dynamic, flexible program preparing them for executive leadership roles across all care delivery sites and systems. The online program designed for current and aspiring senior leaders, focuses on evidence-based leadership and innovation and integrates experiential learning tailored to each student’s interests often within their practice setting or community.

• Opportunities for interprofessional collaboration with other healthcare leaders
• Develop competencies in the new AACN (2021) essentials
• Develop skills to redesign healthcare models and delivery systems using technology to improve quality and safety and patient outcomes.

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

1. Integrate, translate, and apply established and evolving disciplinary nursing and transdisciplinary knowledge to form the basis for clinical judgment and innovation in nursing practice.
2. Model advanced clinical reasoning and person-centered care to improve health equity and population health outcomes across the healthcare delivery continuum.
3. Synthesize scientific knowledge to inform evidence-based practice, influence policy, improve health outcomes, and transform health care.
4. 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.
5. Build intentional interprofessional partnerships to optimize care and improve health outcomes for patients, families, communities, and other stakeholders.
6. 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.

A two or three-year plan of study provides students with flexibility in an online format.

DNP-EL program prepares nurses to become innovators, strategic planners, and expert leaders in the complex healthcare industry.

Nurse executives are vital to lead change based on the evidence from research and improve clients’ health care outcomes, decrease cost, and improve patient satisfaction.