Required Credit Hours/Tuition and Fees
- 54
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Curriculum
The post-master’s DNP is 30 credits, with eight of those credits focused on the final project. The MBA is 36 credits, and four of the nursing DNP courses are considered electives within the MBA program, for a combined total of 54 credits for the concurrent DNP/MBA. While the School of Business courses are offered in online, seven-week sessions, the School of Nursing courses are offered online over the whole semester. This allows students who are full time to primarily only have two courses progressing simultaneously within a semester.
Year 1 (Summer Semester)
(3) ACCT 524 Accounting for MBA's
(3) NURS 617 Applications of Epidemiology
6 - Total Credits
Year 1 (Fall Semester)
(3) MBA 521 Quantitative Analysis (first half of semester)
(3) MBA 522 Decision Making in Organizations (second half of semester)
(3) NURS 600 Theory Guided Practice
9- Total Credits
Year 1 (Spring Semester)
(3) ECON 528 (second half of semester)
(3) Elective
6- Total Credits
Year 2 (Summer Semester)
(3) CMIS 526 Information Systems & Technology
(3) NURS 604 Evaluating Evidence for Improving Practice
6 - Total Credits
Year 2 (Fall Semester)
(3) MKTG 525 Marketing Analysis & Applications (second half of semester)
(3) NURS 620 Healthcare Informatics
(1) NURS 695a Introduction to DNP Projects
7 - Total Credits
Year 2 (Spring Semester)
(3) FIN 527 Corporate Finance (first half of semester)
(3) NURS 606 Leadership and Health Policy for Advanced Nursing Practice
(2) NURS 695p DNP Project (completion of Phase A and B)
8 - Total Credits
Year 3 (Summer Semester)
(2) NURS 695p DNP Project (completion of Phase C)
2 - Total Credits
Year 3 (Fall Semester)
(3) MBA 534 Strategic Management (first half of semester)
(3) NURS 601 Ethics Studies for Advanced Nursing Practice
6 - Total Credits
Year 3 (Spring Semester)
(4) NURS 695p DNP Project (completion of Phase D and E)
4 - Total Credits
Total Hours 54
Immersion Experiences
Students who are admitted to the program attend a three-day immersion the first year, and a two-day immersion the second year. Attendance on campus is mandatory for these two immersions. Additionally, students may come to campus for the oral presentation of their final DNP Practice Project.
School of Nursing Retention Policy
Scholarship appropriate for students in a School of Nursing graduate program is demonstrated through satisfactory completion of course work, defined as obtaining a course grade of A or B. Students who obtain a course grade of D or F in a graduate nursing specialization are withdrawn from the graduate program without the option of repeating the course. Students may only earn one course grade of C and stay enrolled in graduate nursing programs. If a second course grade of C is earned, students are automatically removed from the graduate nursing program, regardless of the cumulative GPA. Repeating a course in which there is originally a grade of C does not eliminate the original course grade of C from being applied toward this exclusion policy.
