Nurse Practitioner, Women’s Health, DNP

The Women's Health Nurse Practitioner doctorate program provides the basic core competencies and curriculum essentials required by certifying and accrediting organizations, while taking your practice many steps further. The WHNP program of study is for students entering the DNP program with a BSN and for the Advanced Practice Nursing Immersion (APNI) students who have successfully completed their pre-licensure program of study.

DNP graduates will:

1. Synthesize knowledge from nursing and other disciplines in the provision of evidence-based advanced practice nursing care.
2. Utilize information systems technology to improve healthcare access, quality, and outcomes.
3. Demonstrate competence in an advanced nursing practice specialty.
4. Exercise leadership through scholarship, advocacy, and community engagement to achieve just and equitable healthcare systems that improve health potential and reduce health disparities of vulnerable populations.
5. Evaluate and influence healthcare systems and health policy at local, state, federal, and global levels.
6. Demonstrate effective communication and interprofessional collaboration in the promotion of healthcare access, quality, and outcomes.
7. Evaluate beliefs, values, and ways of knowing to foster lifelong personal and professional development.
8. Apply ethical decision-making in complex clinical situations.