{"id":21245,"date":"2026-07-08T09:26:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T13:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/?page_id=21245"},"modified":"2026-08-25T14:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T18:14:17","slug":"curriculum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/academics\/doctor-of-nursing-practice\/curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Doctor of Nursing Practice<\/h1>\n\n\n<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-menu-wrapper\"><nav id=\"\" class=\"cl-menu  \" data-name=\"Doctor of Nursing\" data-show-title=\"0\"><ul id=\"menu-doctor-of-nursing\" class=\"cl-menu-list cl-menu-list-no-js\"><li id=\"menu-item-21244\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-21244\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/academics\/doctor-of-nursing-practice\/\">Overview<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-21248\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-21248\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/academics\/doctor-of-nursing-practice\/curriculum\/\">Curriculum<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-21255\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-21255\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/academics\/doctor-of-nursing-practice\/admission-and-fees\/\">Admission and Fees<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/nav><\/section>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Curriculum<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Required NUR courses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>NUR 662 A&amp;B:&nbsp;<\/strong>Foundations of Healing Based Health Care<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>NUR 663 A&amp;B:&nbsp;<\/strong>Informatics in Health Care Settings<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>NUR 664 A&amp;B:&nbsp;<\/strong>Implementation Science<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>NUR 672 A&amp;B:&nbsp;<\/strong>Health Care Policy for Whole Health<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>NUR 673 A&amp;B:&nbsp;<\/strong>Doctor of Nursing Practice Role Development<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>NUR 674 A&amp;B:&nbsp;<\/strong>Strategies in Health Care Program Evaluation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>NUR 675 A&amp;B:&nbsp;<\/strong>Leadership: Theory to Practice<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>NUR 676 A&amp;B:&nbsp;<\/strong>Integrative Health Practices for DNPs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>NUR 677 A&amp;B:&nbsp;<\/strong>D.N.P. Practice Improvement Project Development<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>NUR 678 A&amp;B:<\/strong>&nbsp;D.N.P. Practice Improvement Project: Project Implementation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>NUR 679 A&amp;B:<\/strong>&nbsp;D.N.P. Practice Improvement Project Evaluation &amp; Dissemination<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>MBA 540:<\/strong>&nbsp;Organizational Decision Making and Design<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>PHP 541 A&amp;B:<\/strong>&nbsp;Principles, Methods, and Applications of Epidemiology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<a class=\"cl-button  \" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/963\/NursingPractice-DNP-Online-Course-Listings-with-Names-7-24-25.docx_.pdf\" title=\"\">view sample schedule pdf<\/a>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Program Outcomes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Knowledge for Nursing Practice:<\/strong>&nbsp;Lead the integration, translation, and application of established and evolving nursing knowledge founded on natural and social sciences into advanced nursing practice.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Person-Centered Care:<\/strong>&nbsp;Design, provide, and evaluate holistic, just, compassionate, person-centered, evidence-based healthcare for individuals and families as advanced practice nurses.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Population Health:<\/strong>&nbsp;Implement local, regional, and national initiatives to promote equitable and just access to high-quality care and services for individuals, families, communities, and populations, through partnerships that address social determinants of health to eliminate barriers, enhance facilitators, and improve population health outcomes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Scholarship for the Nursing Discipline:<\/strong>&nbsp;Synthesize, translate, generate, apply, and disseminate nursing knowledge to improve health and transform health care.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Quality and Safety:<\/strong>&nbsp;Lead quality improvement initiatives to inform system- level policies and processes that promote a culture of safety and minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through system effectiveness and individual performance.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Interprofessional Partnerships:<\/strong>&nbsp;Lead interprofessional collaborations with individuals, families, communities, health care professionals, and other colleagues to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and improve outcomes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Systems-Based Practice:<\/strong>&nbsp;Design, lead, and evaluate system-wide initiatives to provide safe, quality, equitable, and value-based care to diverse populations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Informatics and Healthcare Technologies:<\/strong>&nbsp;Use healthcare technology and data bases to gather, analyze, and synthesize, information that supports clinical decision making to provide care, and improve interprofessional communication in accordance with best practice and professional and regulatory standards.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Professionalism:<\/strong> Lead with a professional identity grounded in nursing core values of compassionate caring, a collaborative disposition, civility, accountability, ethics and social justice for exemplary practice.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development:<\/strong>&nbsp;Lead, advocate for, and develop initiatives that promote a culture of personal and professional wellness and lifelong learning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctor of Nursing Practice Curriculum Required NUR courses: Program Outcomes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5286,"featured_media":0,"parent":21238,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-21245","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21245"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21292,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21245\/revisions\/21292"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}